Perhaps many of us, if not all, have asked that question. My grandparents left beautiful Ballyboggan/Castlebridge for Baltimore City, Md. in 1889, 50 years after the famine. He and one brother emigrated, while one other brother and their sisters stayed, and my cousins there, as well as others, say that CO. Wexford was not as affected by the famine, anyhow. My cousin suggests that since his father got the house, there was no place else to go. But I do not understand that logic, or culture, as it were. Milli