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 the evidence suggests 3^- N &£»jtyi&a» occu] ment by approximately twenty families the evidence suggests 3^- N &£»jtyi&a» occupation of this settle- Table 15: Dominant Surnames in Sou' V/est/ Somerset Erenan (Brennan) Duffy Keefe (Kief, Keef) Kelly McBride McCarvill Mulligan Murphy Ranaghan or O 'Ranaghan Shreenan Somers or Summers Trainor (Trainer or Treanor) Wall 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 I Races I Races will take place at , 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 &f.