My great grandfather was John C. Kirwan, who left Bournea (also written Bourney) Parish, about 3 miles south of Roscrea, County Tipperary for America in early 1861. His mother was Mary, but I don't know her maiden name, nor do I know his father's name. John had a brother Jeremiah, and sisters Margaret and Anne. There may have been others. Mary lived in Ballyknock (various spellings) townland in the parish in the late 1860s. In America, he lived in Clinton County, Ohio, then Cameron, Missouri, then Ceresco, Nebraska and finally O'Neill, Nebraska, where he and his wife, Judith Johanna Reardon are buried in the Catholic Cemetery. Tom Fitzsimmons.