Re Dean Crowley's query: > >Georges parents were George Patrick FINNIGAN, b. 1820 in Mountnebo, >Gory, County Wexford, and Cornelia DANIELL, b. 1827 in Ireland. They >married in Dublin in 1844. > My FINNEGAN ancestors were from Kiltullagh (SE of Athenry), Co. Galway, so I can't help on that score. As my Wexford ancestors were Gorey & Garrybrit Methodists and Irish Palatines (POOLE, JOHNSTON, WEBSTER), I can offer a bit about Mt. Nebo. The natural feature of that name, 888 feet (not metres) high, is WNW of Gorey; on the Ordnance Survey 1:126,720 Series map no. 19, Carlow & Wexford, the peak is split by the vertical grid line "10", and is about 1/3 of the grid north of horizontal "60". According to James G. Ryan's IRISH RECORDS: SOURCES FOR FAMILY AND LOCAL HISTORY (Salt Lake City (Ancestry) and Dublin (FlyLeaf), 1997), the Civil Parish in question is variously styled Kilnahue or Kilnehue or Lamogue, and the corresponding RC Parish is Craanford/Rossminoge. Known records for that parish begin in 1871, however. I may well be corrected by someone 'on the ground' as to exact boundaries; Ryan's map isn't keyed to topography in any detail. Mt. Nebo doesn't seem to be the name of any civil division. It is, however, fairly notorious as the name of the estate of the magistrate (John) Hunter Gowan and his nephew Ogle Gowan, the founder of the Orange Order in Canada. The map on p. 15 of Daniel Gahan's THE PEOPLE'S RISING: WEXFORD, 1798 (Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 1995) shows "Mt. Nebo House" at the SE base of the mountain, in a position corresponding to symbols for woodland or parkland on plate II of Musgrave's IRISH REBELLION OF 1798. My own Gorey POOLEs were on Abel Ram's estates, not Gowan's, but were intermarried with WEBSTERs and JOHNSTONs, of whom a couple (in Canada) were named Ogle and one JOHNSTON male married a Hester GOWAN, so there's some connection there somewhere. Ryan's book, by the way, which I acquired only 2 days ago, gives information for which records survive for which dates on a parish by parish basis; I haven't used it enough to say that the information is or isn't sound, but it "looks and feels" quite reliable (wry smile.) Cheers/Greg p.s.: I receive WEXFORD-L in digest form and hence may have missed any earlier replies to Mr. Crowley's query. Gregory A. Finnegan, PhD Associate Librarian for Public Services and Head of Reference Tozzer Library Harvard University 21 Divinity Avenue Cambridge MA 02138-2089 617-495-2253 fax 617-496-2741 gregory_finnegan@harvard.edu "...have mercy on us all --Presbyterians and Pagans alike -- for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending." MOBY-DICK, chapter 17.