Hi Sheila Would you mind checking for any reference to Cassidy or Dimond/Dymond in Dromard or Drumlish parishes? Many thanks Beryl in Melbourne Australia PS I bought the book that has been written on Carrigallen Parish while I was at Ballinamore Heritage Centre, but it's still somewhere on the water between Ireland and Australia. Posted it home. The author suggested that my family's townland of Gortermone, which is right on the Leitrim/Longford border, was one of the places worst hit by the Big Wind in 1837 (?). Which would explain why most ofl the families that were there in the 1830s were gone in the 1850s. Also bought a book on the Big Wind but that's still blowing on the water too. <G> ----- Original Message ----- From: "smf" <smf@ican.net> To: <IRL-LONGFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [LONGFORD] Griffith's Valuation > Hi > David Leahy's book "County Longford, Survivors of the Great Famine" lists > all the heads of families living in county Longford in 1854 at the time of > Griffith's Valuation. >