Thanks for your message. What is your tree on ancestry? Mine's Steph's 99.9%.
Rich Foy's website has been taken down but some of his Foy family can be found here:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=mckeehutton&recno=997 & here's the related website
https://curryberrybyrne.wordpress.com/I've seen the Peter's Pioneers website before. I didn't think it was relevant to Rich's Foys, but still enjoyed reading it. I will check with Rich to see if he thinks the two groups of Foys are related.
Here is the text from his Rich Foy's website page: Early Foys in Ireland including Egan, Berry, Foy, Morley, Murray, Curry, Sweeney
The Claremorris / Knock / Ballyhaunis Triangle
Within County Mayo there is a small triangle of land with vertices at the towns of Claremorris, Knock and Ballyhaunis. Almost all of the persons on the Foy side of the family can trace their origins to the western portion of this triangle, along the Claremorris-to-Knock road, either by direct descent or by marriage.
About a mile north of Claremorris along the Knock road, another road branches off eastward past the Carmelite Abbey and burial ground (where many Foys are buried) and passes through some hamlets: Cartronacross (we call it Cartownacross in our family), Knockatober, the Holy Well, and Garryedmond [aka Garryredmond]. A small road branches north at Garryedmond and a small road branches south from Garryedmond passing through lower Garryedmond (not mentioned on the map, but near the LC or level crossing at the railroad) leading to the Claremorris/Ballyhaunis road near Koilmore (marked Coilmore on the map).
The Egans lived in Cartronacross with fields extending southward towards Drumkeen. The Berry lands were along the road from Knockatober to Garryedmond. The Foy family lived in lower Garryedmond. When Martin and Anthony Berry and their families left for Kansas in 1884, Patrick Foy moved his family onto their farms (along the road leading north from Garryedmond towards Carraun), occupying Anthony Berry's house while Martin's was demolished and a newer structure was built on the site. William Foye and Michael Foye were born in lower Garryedmond. William married Ann Halligan and took over a farm in Kilcolman (slightly west of the Claremorris-to-Knock road).
The Morley family was centered at Maugheramore or Magheramore along the Ballyhaunis-to-Knock road. The Murray family was centered at Lissaniska, also near Knock. The Murray girls who came to the United States married men from Kiltimagh and Swinford; perhaps they did not know each other in Ireland, but they located close by when they came to America, a common migration pattern.
The Curry and Sweeney families lived close to Knock. One source places Martin Curry's farm in Ballynabrehon, west of the Claremorris-to-Knock road, midway between Claremorris and Knock and close to Kilcolman, where William and Ann Foy farmed.
The Foy family attended the National School at Koilmore along the Claremorris-to-Ballyhaunis road. The Egans and Berrys attended the Loughaunnaman school east of the Claremorris-to-Knock road. All groups walked through fields to reach the schools, rather than taking roundabout roads.