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Thanks for your reply.  I have contributed to the Terrance Carlin/Carolan/Carling tree.  He was my great-grandfather.  Supposedly born in County Mayo about 1828.  The Terrance I am looking for would be his uncle, also Terrance Carrolan.  That 200 acres in Grenville was later in the name of James Carlin and I have found almost all of his 9 children and their descendants.  I have been contacted by Glen Carlin of Montreal and he can trace his family to Bangor Erris in a town land called Glencullen.  Both families show up in Canada in the same year.  They must be related.

After 13 years of searching I think I may have found my CARLIN family.  I am told by a new found cousin who lives in Canada that the family name was spelled CAROLAN.  This research points me to Bangor-Erris at the town of Glencullen where Denis Carolan married Catherine Malardy.  Would you be able to tell me the name of the Catholic parish at Glencullen?  Denis was born about 1755.  On Landed Estates I find a property owned by ANTHONY CAROLAN but this is after my family moved to Canada settling in Quebec. HOWEVER, this Anthony Carolan may also be related.  Our Anthony CARLIN/CAROLAN was married to Margaret DAVID/DAVITT about 1790 but I can only assume in Mayo.   

You have helped me in the past so now I have another clue on our family.  Over the past weekend my cousins attended the Brackloon School Reunion.  These cousins come from California and stay in Roscommon for 6 months each year.  They are very interested in Genealogy so I asked them if they could get any clues about the DAVITT family.  Margaret Davitt would be my GGGGrandmother.  She came to Canada prior to 1856 where we find a death record.  She lived with her son James and his wife Mary (Doherty) at Grenville.  Margaret Davitt had a sister, Sarah, who married Anthony McAndrew.  Both families settled in Grenville.  There are thousands of McAndrews!  BUT I do see them at Behmullet, Kilcommon parish.   At the reunion a contact was made to the Davitt family and they will get back to me but what I am wondering from you is records from Bangor Erris where this new contact said the Carlin family lived. 
We are probably talking different years as I find the James Carlin family settled in Grenville by 1833.  Not much in records then.  James had a brother Terrance but the only fact I find on him is the sale of 200 acres in his name in 1833.  He is later mentioned in the will of James.  But there is not death record of this Terrance. 
On Facebook for the Brackloon Reunion I found a dedication at the Davitt farm at Brackloon North and I just about jumped out of my skin!  What seems odd to me is the distance from Brackloon North to Bangor Erris. 
Any hints where to look will be much appreciated. 

Thank you Jayjay.  Our Carlin's were probably spelled Carolan in Ireland but there is one signature of James with CARLIN in his handwriting.  Do you suppose there could have been another cousin Anthony?  The mother of James was Margaret David (as the church record says) but her sister Sarah had the spelling of DAVITT s that centers them around Striade, possibly.  Margaret died in 1856 and her records says feu de Antoni David.  French priest, transcribing the Irish brogue so it all gets murky!

My cousin in Toronto was able to track down a land donation composed and filed by the notary but in the words of James and that is where we find the signature.  That was in 1876.  So James was preparing for his death willing the property to his son Thomas.  Now in 1833 the same property of 200 acres at Grenville was sold to a Terrance CARROLAN.  It may be possible that James had a brother or his name was James Terrance or Terrance James   Canadian records don't tell us much either  Wish the family had come to the US!

Can you tell me the dates your family arrived in the US?  I have searched the St. Lawrence Steamboat passenger lists but only find one J. Carlin arriving in 1834 which would be around the right time except that this Terrance (the first) had bought the farm by then. 

'Tis a puzzle!

Thank you for the tip on the Cullen Family.  I shall look there ASAP!