Current mailing addresses in Ireland?

[tucson mike]

This world of the Internet has put me in an awkward position.

I live in Arizona. I posted to a genealogy newsgroup about my grandmother Mary Anne Stones, who was born in Fearboy, Offaly. Someone wrote back and said he was a postman in Moate. He said the Stones family had descendants named Kelly in Newtown Horsleap. He declined to give information on how to contact them, which is what I would have done in his situation.

Google locates only one Kelly family in Newtown Horseleap, and gives me a telephone number (!). So I could phone and say hi, maybe I'm your distant cousin from a foreign land, or maybe I'm not. I really do not like the idea of doing that. It seems rude, and could make a bad first impression. On the other hand, I don't know when I might get to visit Ireland, and I can't find a mailing address.

Can anyone suggest a way out of this dilemma? Thanks.

[HugoBeauchamp]

Have you tried using the Eircom Telephone Directory at http://www.eircom.ie/cgi-bin/bvsm/bveircom/mainPage.jsp
If you put STONES into the "WHO" box and OFFALY into the "WHERE" box you should come up with four names, addresses & telephone numbers.
If you put in the other counties of Ireland you will find quite a few more.

HTH

Stuart