this time towards nearby towns. At the same time, people never forgot their origins and organize Donations and worked hard by themself to set up water supply to some parts of the village. At the end of the twentieth century, partly thanks to their voluntary work and money, the road to Donji Žirovac was paved in asphalt. The events of 1990–1995 Events in Croatia in 1990 and 1991 did not bypass Gornji Žirovac. Village became part of the newly formed state of Republic of Serbian Krajina and circumstantial, again at the border as century ago. In August 1995 Croatian Army begins Operation Storm. Soon, people from entire region were trying to escape and out of only a few possible routes, one led through Donji Žirovac towards Bosanski Novi. Two streams of people were joining in Donji Žirovac as two roads cross there: one stream from the direction of Glina via main road and the other stream of people from the entire region of Kordun using narrow forest roads via Obljaj. Series of military attack of Croatian Army on the streams of Refugees at Donji Žirovac to this day remains only as a list of testimonies and no one has been charged. After 1995 Gornji Žirovac in 1995 became part of the present day Republic of Croatia and people left. Demographics According to census 2001. there were 19 people in Gornji Žirovac. Buildings Today's Gornji Žirovac is sparsely populated and remains of houses abandoned after 1995 are visible everywhere. But Gornji Žirovac had more buildings during its existence, yet today they are hardly noticeable. Church In the northern part of the village, near the place where the Radašnica flows into Žirovac, there is a bridge still called The Church Bridge. The church is long gone, but once it was about a hundred meters north of the bridge at the crossroads. There was a small plain and foundations may still be noticeable. The tale is that the church was wooden, and according to some accounts, it allegedly burned down (although this oral tradition varies from source to source) and later built again, but in another place which turned out to be uphill, in the center of village Donji Žirovac. The church was called the Church of St. Petrus and on the Austro-Hungarian military map from 1753.g. is marked this way. Location was probably . On the Austro-Hungarian map there is another church