Heidi writes: > is garranbaun a townland or an area or a parrish? < Heidi, Somehow, in the midst of the AOL/Rootsweb tussle, I lost track of this one. Garranbaun is a moderate-sized townland. > i am pretty sure what ever it is, the Flahavans lived in Dungarvan proper. < Garranbaun is about 3 miles NE of Dungarvan town. > There is some talk that they lived next to a RC church < There was (and still is) an RC church and school in the townland of Carranbaun. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts