Nancy, Tagshinny, Tennalick, and Carrickedmond are townlands in Tagshinny Parish, all right together. Abbeyshrule is in Abbeyshrule Parish nearby, just a little separated. You can find them on the map provided in David Leahy's Survivors of the Great Famine, an index of Longford families resident at the time of the Griffiths Valuation, 1854. All the families you mention are listed in this index with the names of the places they lived. (Your surmise that Thomas Levy lived in Tennalick is correct.) This book would be very useful to you or anyone trying to locate a County Longford family. For info find http://homepage.tinet.ie/~daveleahy/ My roadmap show Tagshinny to be a village about one mile east of the N55 on Longford L18A, roughly 20 miles south of Longford. Abbeyshrule lies about four miles east on the same road. This is an Ordnance Survey map of Longford-Roscommon. It's possible to order a copy in this country. One source is David Morgan, www.davidmorgan.com or 1-800-324-4934. The scale is one-half inch to the mile. You might also like to have the relevant Griffiths Valuation sheets for the families. The listings there will tell you how much land the families occupied, its quality, amount taxed and the name of the landlord. If it's very much land, there may turn out to be recorded deeds between the ancestor and landlord and then you are off to the races! To obtain these records write to National Archives Four Courts Dublin 7 Ireland Ask that you may pay in US funds. To order the returns you'll need to supply the names, parishes and townlands. It was recently four dollars per return, airmail postage. Or, if you'd just like to know what kind of a place the folks lived at, the Longford County Library would send you a photocopy of the relevant entries for the townlands in O'Donovan's Field Name Book. This was, as I understand and I'd be glad to be corrected if wrong, got up to accompany the Ordnance Survey mapping. An entry is a paragraph describing the size, land character, economic uses, presence of dwellings, antiquities and variant names and spellings of the place. You should send not one, but several International Response Coupons because a staff person has to make the copies and mail them. Have fun! Rachel Smith