Karen at jessandrak@netscape.net writes: > I Googled Ballycolliton with dozens of various spellings and couldn't find a darn thing regarding a location!! < Karen, I forgot to mention it's in Kilbarron parish, but you probably knew that from using the www.seanruad.com website <gr>. Buy a Discovery map 59, the castle is shown on it in the very top row of grid squares, between the 84 and 85 Eastings numerals. > It looks like I am going to be driving all over the place when I visit in May. < Me, too...... but unless you're in Limerick, Kerry or Cork - and perhaps some Clare at the end of the trip - I doubt we'll pass each other on the road. > living at Derrysallagh and Bonnydubber in 1775. Would you perhaps have a location for these places too?? < There are two Derrysallaghs ("oak grove amongst the willows" - my liberal translantion) in Ireland, both of whom are way up in the hills. One Derrysallagh is in Tuosist civil parish, Co. Kerry, about 5 miles SW of Kenmare. This is in the foothills of the Caha Mts. and appears to have only 3 or 4 actual houses in the townland, plus some booleying-huts. The other Derrysallagh is in Kilmactranny civil parish in Co. Sligo, and is within a mile of so of one of the Arigna coal mines along the Sligo/Leitrim border. I think the "Bonnydubber" will take a bit of work. The "dubber" is undoubtedly "tubber" or "tober". I don't find any townlands ending in "tubber", although there are many local spellings of tober which have become tubber. And, there's always the village of Tubber on the Clare/Galway border. I went through all of the townlands ending in "tober". There are quite a few of them starting with "B" - nearly all are Ballintobers. There is one interesting one - Bunatober. It's in Annaghdown civil parish, Co. Galway, about a dozen miles due north of the City. I had hoped to find a single area in Ireland where townlands approximating Derrysallagh and Bonnydubber might exist in proximity.....but I couldn't find such a place. Do you have any idea of the county - or even the province? - where these two sons might have lived? Without a bit more information, I doubt if I can help much more on this. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts