My mother's people in western Massachusetts still have a trace of a brogue, 120 years after my great grandfather Joseph Hall left Sonnagh New. Both my brother and I have enjoyed several visits to your lovely parish and had the thrill of walking into the now-forest preserve over the little arc we found still referred to as Hall's Bridge. The folks at O'Deas Hotel are so kind, and their suggestions led me to a great conversation with the local historian/bookseller whose name if I read my notes correctly, was Mr. Norman Morgan. I got the last of his back issues of "Contact Loughrea," a great resource that should be reprinted if it hasn't been already.... And a charming man named Johnny Connair (sp?) even took my brother around to some farms where they remembered the last of our Irish family, Michael Hall. My brother, over tea, was told he was the spittin' image of the man :) Best of luck in your project. Thanks for helping families rediscover each other! 