For Dennis Murphy -- Suggest you try the following site on the Net to find the townland you mentioned -- the Irish Townland database: http://www.seanruad.com/ As for your Councilman relative, you might contact the main library in Cleveland, and see if they have a "Bio" file of prominent citizens, usually made up of newspaper clippings on politicians, union leaders, prominent clergy and acamedicians, etc. I've had excellent results with this approach in California and Seattle. In each case the materials were in the department that had microfilimed/microfiched newspapers, etc., rather than the genealogy or family history sections. I got about five pages on my "lost" grandfather, that has led back about three more generations, helped me find the family homes in England and Ireland, back to about 1800, etc. Can't say what Cleveland has, but its worth a try. Good luck, Tim