Kathleen at [email protected] writes: << I wondered if anyone knew what the nearest decent-sized town would have been relative to Ballymuddy, where people would have traded and bought necessities? >> Kathleen, I'd vote for Tallow. There's a straight road (by Irish standards), heading west from the church in Ballymuddy which puts you in Tallow in 4 miles. Lismore is also a possibility, but it's about 6 or 7 miles.......you have to go over to the Camphire Bridge to cross the River Bride. Villierstown would have been the nearest town of all to Ballymuddy, but it would have required a boat ride across the Blackwater. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts