Terri at Teralcock@aol.com writes: << I would be very interested in anything anyone can tell me about the Wicklow hills, Upper Muckduff and area. <snip> leased 483 acres in Upper Muckduff <snip> my sister visited the property and was allowed to go and have a look at the Alcock home on the property - the last Alcock having died a couple of years ago - a Mary Ann Alcock - it is a stone house in disrepair. >> Terri, I think I'll stick with Muckduff Upper, and let others deal with the generally Wickow Hills. Muckduff Upper is precisely 483 acres, so apparently the entire townland was rented. But I have my doubts about the "stone house", even in disrepair, actually being on the property/townland. I suspect it was probably one of the three buildings at or near the end of the only road close to Muckduff Upper - it passes through Muckduff Lower but stops before it reaches the Upper townland. And Upper it is !! Muckduff Upper is a boxy, squarish townland on the eastern slope of Carrig Mountain, extending all the way to the peak. There are no buildings at all shown on the Discovery map 62, based on aerial photograph from 1973. These maps are especially good at showing very rural buildings - even derelict ones. There is a path shown from the end of the road/lane in M. Lower, heading up the mountain a bit and then eastward to two of three "huts" (perhaps for booleying) in Bernagh townland. This path may enter M. Upper townland, but all of the buildings are outside of it. The only real mapable sites are two cairn locations (one may be a passage grave) located directly on the boundary line between Muckduff Upper and the townland of Carrig Mountain. Muckduff means "black pig", but this area seems much more adaptable to sheep <gr>. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts