Links between Crays Hill and Rathkeale are numerous and easy to establish.

* Ask Dale Farm travellers where they spent Christmas and many will say they were in Rathkeale. Father John Glynn, of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, in Wickford, the travellers' parish priest, confirmed many returned there for the festive season.

* After years at Crays Hill, some Dale Farm travellers still own Limerick-registered vehicles .

Under DVLA rules, if you move to the UK you are supposed to register and get UK licence plates within six months.

Retaining Irish plates means they probably have retained a Rathkeale address, author Eamon Dillon says.

* Hundreds of mourners headed to Rathkeale for the funeral of John and Kathleen McCarthy, who died in a mobile home fire at Dale Farm in 2005.

They were buried in expensive solid metal caskets at a cemetery packed with elaborate headstones, marking the graves of Sheridan, Quilligan, O'Brien, Flynn, Gammell and Slattery family members.

* Some travellers at the last Dale Farm inquiry did not give evidence, as they were said to be with sick relatives in Ireland.

* Planning applications and title deeds for Roches Road and Fairhill, Rathkeale, bear names matching those of travellers fighting Basildon Council for permission to stay at Dale Farm, * Michael and Anastacia Hegarty own land at Oak Lane. A couple named Michael and Anastacia Hegerty also own homes in Rathkeale.

* John Sheridan - a namesake of the man who developed Dale Farm without permission - applied to extend his mansion in Roches Road, Rathkeale, in 2004.

* Eileen Sheridan applied to build a house in Roches Road, in 2002. Three Dale Farm plots are owned by an Eileen Sheridan.

* A Helen Quilligan - another name familiar from Dale Farm - was granted permission to build a home in Roches Road in 2002.

* John Culligan, John and Dan Flynn - all names of Oak Lane residents - have also applied to build houses in Roches Road.

* The Irish Inland Revenue has records of Rathkeale travellers who have failed to lodge income tax returns with names matching Dale Farm residents.

* Antique and furniture dealers John Flynn, Patrick O'Brien and Patrick Quilligan - all with Roches Road addresses - and Michael Slattery, with an address in Fairhill, were fined in 2002.

The same names appear in archived Irish press reports of travellers who were compensated for not being served in pubs, or fined for failing to send children to school.