Rachel asks: === Could anyone tell me whether Cloonrow in this case would have been a village, a street name, estate name or what? I've found Kilkelly on the map with google maps - it looks like a very small village. Does anyone know how I could learn more about it? === This is the sort of project that I love. Especially, as I don't do any genealogy - so this is about the only way I can contribute to the lists. Let's start with the easy part......Kilkelly. As you probably know, Kilkelly village is about 6 miles northnortheast-ish of Knock town. In 2002, it was a sleepy village of 230 people, but by 2006, it had grown to a booming metropolis of 389 souls. A rapid increase in population, I'd say......but I don't know why. Perhaps the proximity of Knock Airport, 3 or 4 miles to the north, might have something to do with it. I don't have much more to say about Kilkelly. I've driven through it several times but, other than the ruins of a church (mentioned by John O'Donovan, in the 1838 Ordnance Survey letters), there wasn't much of interest there for me. Cloonrow does not seem to be a townland, at least, since the Ordnance Survey's completion in the 1830/40 period - when the townland names and boundaries were more-or-less stabilized. However, it is possible that Cloonrow (probably, a "red meadow") was a local name for an area within a townland. If so, this would possibly appear on the Co. Mayo six-inch maps of this period. You're able to access the Google maps, so you probably have broadband. If so, you might want to go to the Mayo Library maps and browse the area around Kilkelly village. I can do it, but I'm on dial-up and I have to rely on a "helper" CD which I received from the Mayo library a year or two ago, to assist me in a semi-offline use of the maps. You could probably zip right through this area directly from the library. The URL for the six-inch maps from the Mayo library is: == http://www.mayolibrary.ie/maps/data/MapsData/index.htm == I'm off-line now - and my procedure involving the CD may be different from the on-line direct access to the library - but I think you'd just enter the civil parish of Kilmovee, and then click-on the townland (or town) of Kilkelly. Then, you can move around the area and zoom, etc., as required......in a search for an area identified as Cloonrow. If you have any questions, drop me a line. I suspect that the Cloonrow is a bad transcription, or a poor reading of the placename. Do you have the placename in script form? Or has it already been transcribed into print? If you have the script version, perhaps you could scan it and send it to me? As an attachment, though - as my plain-text e-mail program won't convert embedded images into anything. If you have trouble using the six-inch maps, let me know and I'll see what I can do. It may take me several days to get to it, however, as I seem to have acquired more family obligations that usual at this time of the year [gr]. And dial-up requires my waiting until I can get a good connection speed. Pete - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts </HTML>