Hi Dave, >P.S. I noted you used past tense here!.."there was a lot of illegal trading going on with people all over Europe". Why past tense? To throw off the police <grin> . Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "D H" <hallmark1@utvinternet.com> To: SCOTCH-IRISH@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, 28 January, 2012 5:37:14 PM Subject: Re: [S-I] Native Irish McLains? Yes it is strange, as such, that many things just disappear into the mists of time, the Templar castles up and down the west coast of Ireland for example! Every now and then old churches/graveyards are uncovered by winter storms...one would imagine that some of the locals would have at least known there was a graveyard in the area!..ok, not documented but at least known about! A Spanish Armada ship was discovered this summer in a harbour on west coast, lying in 4 meters of clear water and no one knew it was even there....completely forgotten about! http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1114150 (if you can view it!) Dave P.S. I noted you used past tense here!.."there was a lot of illegal trading going on with people all over Europe". Why past tense?? LOL ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message