A genealogical study of the Shanley family of South Leitrim and the migration chain that brought one branch to Danbury, Connecticut. Features an annotated transcript and facsimile images of a 19th-century Irish Constabulary notebook and a critical examination of the medieval Seanlaoch lineage, which is extended into the 20th century. Utilizes specialized software analysis to provide a focused Ahnentafel report documenting the royal ancestry of the Wood family (Danbury and Brookfield, Conn.) to William the Conqueror. Includes research on the Moran, Lyman, and Corcoran families; a demographic study of the Shanley name (17th–20th c.); and reassembled 18th-century Bessborough Estate maps of Drumhall and Drumshanbo townlands based on National Archives of Ireland records. Special Heritage Edition, with dust jacket, printed on special paper, and with selected illustrations in premium color.