Seeing Jane's notes on the Tithes and Griffith's reminds me of a note I give to anyone who asks me to research a name that immigrated before Griffith's The purpose of a name search in the index of Griffith's Valuation will do five things for the wise researcher. 1. It will tell him what part of Cavan a name appears in both the Valuation of the 1850's and 1860's and the Tithes of the 1820's and 1830's. 2. In the Griffith's it will tell how many time the last name appears and if but not how many times in the Tithes Applotment. 3. It will in both the Valuation and the Tithes usually tell you who he leases from so a later search of Estate Records can be done. 4. It will allow a researcher to look forward from the Spinning Wheel (1796) thru the Tithes period (1820's and 1830's) and into Griffith's (1860's) time frame. So if a name is in a location in 1796 and 1825 and in 1860 but your guy left in 1840 than any parish showing the name in Griffith's won't have to go thru a church records search. The advantage to the researcher is he can now eliminate many of those parish church records that take the most amount of time to search and concentrate only on the areas that showed the family had left by the time of the Griffith's. 5. And as a bonus all the maps are in Griffith's Allen Temple Beagan http://members.tripod.com/~Al_Beagan/start.htm researching Beagan and McCabe in Cavan Beagan and Trainor in Monaghan Chevallier and Knight in Jersey Beagan, Knight, Brace, Chancey in NFLD Beagan, Power and Trainor in PEI