Joy at [email protected] writes: << Are they - Annam TIERNAM m.Bernardum QUINN - R.C. - Ardcarn & Tuamna 8.10.1857? Where is this church? I suppose it is a church? They were said to come from Kilronan. >> Joy, I'm getting mixed information on this one. Ardcarn is a civil parish, and the townland of Ardcarn is nearly 4 miles due east of Boyle town. The townland of Tumna in the adjacent eponymous civil parish, is a further 3 or 4 miles ESE of Ardcarn. Here is the problem. Tumna townland has a early, ruined church. Proabably already in that state by the mid 1800's. Ardcarn townland has an old graveyard, and an existing church, built on the site of an early monastery. The "early monastery" was probably either the small Arroasian monastery of Augustinian Canons, or the nearby Arroasian convent of nuns. But the existing church, at Ardcarn, is the Protestant parish church of Ardcarn. Your reference specifically mentions "R.C." before "Ardcarn & Tuamna (sic)". But the R.C. parish for this area would have been Cootehall, according to Brian Mitchell's "New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland" and the Irish Times website or Ardcarne R.C. parish, according to the Local.ie website. The townland of Tumna might be just south enough to lie within Mitchell's Croghan R.C. parish, which the Irish Times calls Killucan and the Local.ie website calls Killukin & Killumod. Ain't Irish genealogy fun? (Thank goodness, I don't do any). Gee, all of that above reading you've done, and you still don't have any real information. At least I spared you the history of the monastery and the nunnery !! The Discovery map of the area does show existing churches (of unspecified denomination) in the Mountprospect/Crossna area, as well as Cootehall. Other listers will be better suited to comment on this. A scan of some websites - such as Elphin Diocese - might lead you somewhere. I'm afraid we've reached the limit of my knowledge now (unless you're really interested in the early history of Ardcarn <gr>). Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts