There are thirty—five separate surnames in the three censuses;

fourteen appear in all three censuses, (see Table 15, below);

and another ten appear in at least two of the censuses; thus,

twenty-four surnames appear in two of the three censuses.

While precise genealogical relationships cannot be determined, CcT\SIS+e~x+

the evidence suggests Gunfirnuaus occupation of this settle-

ment by approximately twenty families.

Table 15: Dominant Surnames in Sou' West Somerset

Brenan (Brennan) Murphy

Duffy ’ Ranaghan or O'Ranaghan Keefe (Kief, Keef) Shreenan

Kelly Somers or Summers

McBride Trainor (Trainer or Treanor) McCarvill Wall

Mulligan Walsh or Welsh

Reference was made in the previous chapter to the sport of horse racing at Somerset. It appears that this sport goes back to about 1851, as the following advertisement from a newspaper of September, 1851 suggests.

Races: Races!

Races will take place at South

West, Bedeque, Lot 27, on Friday

and Saturday, the 10th and 11th

of October next. (3) No further information is available until the 1870's when various farmers at Somerset begin producing prize—winning horses, especially after the arrival of John O‘Ronaghan's stallion, "Abdallah Messenger: in 1877. Mr. O'Ronaghan had

his own racing track on his farm in Somerset by 1882; racing

was held there regularly from then to about 1889. A racing