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Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to this.  I hadn't been back on RootsChat for a long time and just saw your posts.  My family who lived in Ballyvlin were Thomas Egan and Margaret Caheron (Kaheeran).  Looking at birth records, they moved over to Keelogue around 1877.  In 1893 they emigrated to Hartford Connecticut.  I didn't see anyone I recognized as relatives still in Keelogue in the 1901 census.  Although, Margaret's 1916 obit did say that she had a sister still in Ireland, Mrs. John Kenna (Keena?), but no specific place was mentioned.  Thomas's father, John Egan, died in Ballyvlin on 14 Mar 1876.  There's a family story about Thomas having to go in to town to register his son's birth and his his father's death at the same time.  If I ever win the lottery I hope to visit Ireland and walk around Ballyvlin and Keelogue.  Thank you again for taking an interest.

Sources for Irish Family History, by James G. Ryan (pub. 2001) cites a publication: A study of the surname Hynes as found in Athlone and surrounding area.  Edward A. Hynes, 1981.  Does anyone know anything further about this item or its author?  Manuscript?  Location?  I've checked WorldCat.  Thanks for any tips.

Thank you everyone.  The map link  is very cool.  I see Ballyvlin in the center and then down and to the right past the bend in that dead-end road, there's Keeloge.  They look adjacent.  And above Ballyvlin, I see the Ballylin House and I know Thomas Egan was a herd on that estate.  So I guess this is most likely to be the places I'm looking for.  Again, thank you.

The information I have indicates that members of my Egan family were born in the townlands of Ballyvlin [Ballyolin] and in Keeloge [Keelogue].  Both are in the civil parish of Wheery or Killagally according to Lee's Offaly Through Time.  I know approximately where Ballyvlin is and that it was on the King estate.  Can someone tell me where Keeloge is in relation to Ballyvlin and about how far away?  I'm interested in knowing about the family's life before they emigrated in 1893.  (Google Maps is a wonderful invention, but it doesn't deal well with townlands -- at least not for me.)   Any information appreciated!

Sandra,  What I have was originally based on verbal information from my grandmother years ago.  Since then I have been looking for documentation.  She told me that her mother was Helen "Ellen" HYNES (many variants) b.  12 Apr 1856 in Ballymahon.  Helen married Thomas KERRIGAN on 28 May 1884 in Brooklyn, NY.  She died 20 July 1908 in Brooklyn and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, but there is no marker.  The family was extremely poor and the children were in an orphanage for a while.  Thomas KERRIGAN died in 1912 in a charity hospital.  My grandmother, Anna or Anne, said that Helen's parents were Daniel Hynes and Ann Horan but had no other details.   She said that Helen's siblings were:
Daniel -- no other details.
Martin -- no other details.
possibly Anne -- no other details.
Margaret -- married John HUNT and lived in Bridgeport Connecticut.    They were married in Athlone ca. 1870.  Does this match what you have? I have written to Ireland for a marriage record -- no answer yet.
   The Hunts had at least 8 children.  When their son Owen died in 1910, his obit said that his mother was deceased.
This is where it gets a little complicated.  The Hunts' daughter, Mary Ann "Mollie" was b. 3 Aug 1877 in Westmeath.  On 3 June in 1903 she married John J. EGAN in Hartford, Connecticut.  She died 16 Jan 1913, leaving 2 children.  John EGAN remarried to Mary Ann's cousin Anne KERRIGAN (my grandmother referred to above).  Their daughter (my mother) and her half-sister were thus both sisters and cousins.

Does this match what you have?  Do you have any more references to this family?
    Anne