Hilary, apparently, at [email protected] writes: << The only church in Old Ross is the Protestant/Church of Ireland one. >> Thanks for this. Unfortunately, I was in a hurry and didn't use the various church webpages to check on this. I used the Townland Index map of the area, which is a 1/6th size of the first editions of the six-inch map of the area. On that map, the church in Old Ross village (Millquarter tld.) is identified as an "R.C. Ch.". As it rarely happens that an old RC church has been changed into a Protestant one, I just let it go. Sorry. All I had to do was check in Mitchell's book, and I would have seen the discrepancy. The map also shows that the church in Cushenstown as well as the slightly closer church in Courthoyle New are both RC churches - although in different civll parishes. And Mitchell agrees. Incidentally, for my purposes, there are two churches in Old Ross. There is the current church (C of I, as you mentioned), and then there's the section of wall to the north of it - which appears to be the ruin of the early parish church, St. Mary's. I am more likely to miss the functioning churches than I am the ruins <gr>. In this case, I visited the site merely to examine and photograph the Early Christian cross-inscribed pillar, near the entrance to the churchyard. I'll exercise more "due diligence" in my future letters, and try not to hurry. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts