Vickie, === I'm wondering where to look for the burial of Richard & Mary CONNOLLY GALLAGHER who lived at Ballindoo/Doocastle, Mayo. === I think you have several options open here. I noticed you received a response regarding the Sacred Heart church in Bunnanaddan, about two and a half miles NNE of Ballindoo/Doocastle. I don't know about a cemetery at the church, but Mitchell's book on Irish Churches and Graveyards shows only the church - no cemetery there. But his book has been wrong before on this sort of subject. There is a significant graveyard less than a mile NE of the Sacred Heart church, at the ruins of the 15th century Dominican Priory. I was there a few years ago but, as I don't do any genealogy, I was interested only in the priory and so didn't notice much about the cemetery. However, the Archaeological Inventory of South Sligo (publ. 2005) does have a bit to say about the graveyard: "The graveyard is still in use. It contains many 19th and 20th-century headstones and some low, uninscribed grave-markers. The earliest inscriptions on the grave-memorials are from the early 19th century." In the townland of Kilturra, about a mile and a half east of Doocastle/Ballindoo and also across the county line into Sligo, there is another graveyard around the ruins of the old parish church of Kilturra. I also visited there but, likewise, I was looking for 9th century cross-slabs and not 19th century inscribed headstones. But the AI book comes to the rescue again: "It contains a large number of uninscribed grave-markers and 19th and 20th century headstones. The earliest headstones have been recorded as 1771 and 1761." Three miles ESE of Doocastle/Ballindoo, in Mountirvine townland, is another graveyard.....this time, surrounding the remains of the 14th century Carmelite friary of Knockmore. A similar description in the Arch. Inv. book: "The graveyard is still in use. It contains many 19th- and 20th-century headstones, and some low, uninscribed gravemarkers, including some which are reused moulded stones from the friary." The book also mentions "The interior of the church contains many 19th- and 20th-century burials." The nearest burial ground relative to the townland of Ballindoo/Doocastle is right there within the very large townland itself, about a mile NW of the crossroads in the village where the school is located. The part of the townland where the Burial Ground (as marked on Discovery map 32) is located is known as Toomour. B/D townland is located in Kilturra civil parish. Also, in Co. Mayo, there is a marked Burial Ground (on the map) in the townland of Srah Lower, just 3 miles SW of the crossroads in B/D. This location is in Kilbeagh civil parish. Also, in this civil parish (and Carracastle RC parish) is an RC church in Roosky townland, just 2 miles SW of B/D crossroads. I don't know if there is a cemetery there or not (Mitchell doesn't even mention the church in his book). The contact information for Carracastle RC parish is at: === http://www.catholicireland.net/parishes/parishdetails.php?ID=1202 === The corresponding URL for Bunninaden RC parish is at: === http://www.catholicireland.net/parishes/parishdetails.php?ID=1201 === I wish I could give you more info on these latter two graveyards, but the Irish gov't. hasn't published an Archaeological Inventory of Co. Mayo yet (I'm eagerly awaiting [gr]). The Ordnance Survey letters of 1838 somehow overlook the civil parish of Kilturra - or it's included in other letters pertaining to a different parish, or with a different name. I checked for a possible Ballindoo or Doocastle parish, as that townland forms a large portion of Kilturra civil parish. Nothing. Kilbeagh is listed, but no discussion about this Burial Ground in the NE part of the civil parish. I don't think I'll follow-up with the Mayo letters.......there are over 1000 manuscript pages and, although I have a 1927 typeset copy, it's still a tedious job. Aha...... I decided to check the Sligo letters, based on the fact that the RC parish of Bunninadden extends across the border from Sligo to Mayo.......and John O'Donovan, who was in charge of this section of the Ordnance Survey, was a "good Catholic boy" from Kilkenny, who might logically put the parts of the RC parish all into one section of the letters. OK. Not much help - no mention of the burial ground (I'm typing this sort of "stream of consciousness, as you can probably tell [gr]). On to other sources. Knox's History of the county of Mayo only takes us up to the 16th century. Too early. J.F. Quinn, over a 9 year period, wrote a History of Mayo which appeared in the Western People weekly newspaper in the 1930's (he was also editor of the paper). It's a great history, but it could be better-indexed. I don't find any mention of the corner of Co. Mayo in this book of his. Back to Knox, and his book on the Dioceses of Tuam, Killala and Achonry. Now that I look at it again (I have a lot of books, and am at an age where I'm having difficulty remembered just what's in each one........), I notice that it, too, is an Early History. I think I've reached the end of the road with this one.......... Pete, in the glorious Berkshire hill in western MA.