Luke at [email protected] writes: > The area around Kill was the home of both sides of my family. My grandfathers were in St. Nicholas parish Ballyduff Lower, just up the road from Kill. < Luke, I vaguely recall that the Ballyduff problem has arisen before. But the St.Nicholas parish near Kill has me even more confused. There apparently is no St. Nicholas civil or RC parish in Co. Waterford, although there is a Kill St. Nicholas civil parish (and townland) far to the east where Passage East is located, and the ferry across the Suir (access to be soon improved) to Co. Wexford. This is many, many miles from Ballyduff Lower - which is five miles west of Lismore, along the southern bank of the Blackwater and directly across from the town of Ballyduff (and one of the Ballyduff townlands). OK, now I think I've got it. I'm typing as I'm searching (not a good idea). You were writing about St. Nicholas church in the "village" of Ballyduff, Portlaw RC Parish. Unfortunately, the Ballyduffs around this church and village are Ballyduff East and Ballyduff West. If you've been looking for Ballyduff Lower records, they'd probably be from Ballyduff RC parish, over to the far west around the Ballyduff town I mentioned above (but what do I know - I don't do any genealogy). There are 9 Ballyduff-related townlands in Co. Waterford, 2 are of the plain-vanilla variety and the other 7 are embellished with modifiers. The East and West types I mentioned above are just south of the N 25, a couple of miles west of the sharp southward bend of the River Suir as it approaches Waterford City. The Upper and Lower versions, as well as the town and one of the plain townland, are in Lismore & Mocollop civil parish, west of Lismore. The other area of Ballyduff townlands is in Dungarvan civil parish, about 2 or 3 miles WNW of Dungarvan town - where you will find a Ballyduff, Ballyduff More and Ballyduff Beg all clumped together. > Do you know what the church is at Dunhill and how it fits into this? < The church at Dunhill is Sacred Heart. It's in Dunhill RC and civil parishes - - - - but I don't have a clue "how it fits into this" <gr>. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts