Maybe CORNIN? A very ancient Irish family were the CORNINs. Some buried at the abbey of Crevelea in Carrick Patrick. Irish Pedigrees, by O'Hart, vol. 1 mentions "Records relating to the Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise", by The Very Reverend John Canon Monaghan, D.D., P.P., V.G., Cloghan, King's co. In which he makes note of this abbey having several curious figures inserted in it's walls and over some graves of the Murroghs, Cornins, O'Rourkes, et., etc. The Great O'Rourke's figure lies atop his tomb over the burial gound of his family. For those with O'Rourke interests, the pedigree states that a lineal descendant of the great Brian Oge O'Rourke, named Centy, lived in co. Sligo and died in the early 1800s. Centy (Hyacinth) had a brother Hugh Buidhe O'Rourke who died in 1886 in the Colony of Victoria, Australia. Quoting..... "Ada AdamsTardiff" <[email protected]> >Hi Listers, >My 2xggrandmother fromCavan Co.Ireland to Quebec m1838 was named Mary >CORNAN. Other spellings used CURNAN,CORNELL. >Is it possible this name could also be Kiernan? >Meaning and origin please. >Thank you Patrick Traynor, in California's gold-rush country. [email protected] TRAYNOR'S Web Page (Irish stuff) http://members.nbci.com/pattraynor/