Ian at [email protected] writes: << Stralohan is a small area near the town of Ballinamore in County Leitrim. I always believed that it was a townland (typically an area of about one square mile) but now I'm not so sure. I can't find it on an database of Leitrim townlands. >> Ian, I'd bet that the place you're looking for is Sraloaghan townland. It's in Drumreilly Lower civil parish, and is right on the Cavan border, about 3 1/2 miles NE of Ballinamore. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts