Muriel at [email protected] writes: << Can someone tell me the town closest to Tinnabinna and the name of the Catholic church most likely to have been used by its inhabitants. >> Muriel, I can try. Within the same RC parish (Clashmore), the St. Cronan's church in Clashmore town is about 2 miles NE of Tinnabinna. Another church, St. Bartholomew's, is in Piltown - also about 2 miles away, to the ESE of Tinnabinna. Tinnabinna is on the River Blackwater, right where the current N 25 bridge crosses the river. I don't see that bridge (or its precursor) on the old 19th century maps, but there is another bridge shown on the old map, just about a third of a mile south of the current bridge. I'm not sure I believe it, however - it's a much wider part of the estuary. Perhaps it was a ferry. In any case, the large town of Youghal is just a couple of miles due south of Tinnabinna, and there's obviously an RC church there.......if the Tinnabinnanites were easily able to get there <gr>. That would be in another Diocese (Cloyne), etc. There's also an apparently current church in Lackaroe townland, only 1 1/2 miles WNW of Tinnabinna. But I believe it is C of I (I can't find it on their website, but it was C of I in the 1840's) and it happens to be across the pesky Blackwater, A bit farther on, about 2 1/2 miles NW of Tinnabinna is the RC "Glendine Church", in Knockanore RC parish. But again, you have to cross the river. I would try the churches in my first paragraph before searching the others. But what do I know about genealogy ? Not much <gr>. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts