My family came from a town called Ballymoney. so far i have not come across that repeated. but, i sure could one day. jean cihal tomas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Hilliard" <rhilliard@mackinengineering.com> To: <Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:29 AM Subject: RE: [Sc-Ir] Calhoun: Letterkenny, Donegal > PA > Ohio Having had occasion to frequent the town of Mars and meet its inhabitants, I think any conclusions you draw will be pretty accurate. On the other hand, Intercourse, PA is where I've always wanted to live. As the local saying goes, you have to go through Intercourse to get to Paradise (check a map to get this joke). -----Original Message----- From: lmerle@comcast.net [mailto:lmerle@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:24 AM To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [Sc-Ir] Calhoun: Letterkenny, Donegal > PA > Ohio Hi Rob, yes, people do name places after their hometowns in other states. There's a Belfast in Maine. A politican I once 'met' on the Internet in Northern Ireland regaled her listeners' with her close brush with death due to laughter. She found a sign in New Hampshire that has "Derry" in one direction and "Londonderry" in the other! I am always finding places in Western PA named after places in Eastern. I also heard of a guy who was making a pilgrimage to all the places in the USA named Dublin. LOTS of Dublins all the way to the Pacific. It's a good clue where your ancestors came from. What does this say about the settlers of the town of Mars, I wonder???? Linda