Dear Listers, Many thanks to all the responders to my query regarding my confusion over Glencairn and Castle Richard. All were helpful and, if your experience is like mine, each bit of information builds to some kind of reliable fact. I also use another map source not mentioned, the Univ of California. Their historical map collection is outstanding. In my home town of Santa Barbara, California, the Univ of SB provides free 11x17 copied of any part of their 19th Century OS maps of the Irish Counties. I first saw the entry for Castle Richard on this map. You may live near a large University and be able to obtain the same help. According to my further research, the present Glencairn Abbey home of Cistercian nuns was first the site of Glengarron Castle, then Castle Richard, then Glencairn Abbey. My Waterford ancestors Michael English and Mary Sullivan had a large family: Jeremiah 1815, Ellen 1817, Brigid 1819, Denis 1822, Michael 1824, Andrew 1827, Catherine 1829, Mary 1834, John 1835. Jeremiah and Mary are undocumented as to Baptism, but they are members of this family, based on other evidence. There may have been other children in those later years who were not entered into the record. Mary is my 2xs great grandmother. I have positive evidence of the immigration of the entire family to New York, except for sons Michael and Andrew. In addition, a Michael Sullivan, age given as 64, died in the Alms House on Blackwell's Island in NY. He is buried with the family in Calvary Cemetery. I presume this man to be possibly elder brother to Mary Sullivan. Also, Ellen English was said by my father to be the widow of Daniel Bossedy. However, she came to New York alone and later married Michael Hurley, a widower with three sons. There is evidence that she married Bossedy in Tallow RC Parish. I presume he died before she left Waterford. I hope this information will jog some connections out there. I have found my Burke descendants in Perth, Australia. Who knows. Perhaps Andrew or Michael went there or to England. But just maybe, they stayed in Ireland. Sheila MacAvoy Block