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ENNIS area (often known as St Senan's, but including sub-churches) is on www.EnnisParish.com/Genealogy = about 55,000 names total of Marriages after 1837 & Baptisms after March 27th 1841, but no Sponsors' or Witnesses' names, or townlands. Spellings are uncorrected, and raw EXCEL files are available.

I have produced lengthy transcriptions of the CARRIGAHOLT Catholic Marriages & Baptisms Registers covering 1852/3 to March 17th 1878, and on to 1881. The KILBALLYOWEN Civil Parish is mostly aligned with that CROSS Catholic Parish, which was separated off about Feb/March 1878 from the Carrigaholt Cat...

This is the same cavity under / between the westernmost arches of the Doonbeg Bridge as were used during An Gorta Mor / Great Potato Famine Dec 1849 by an evicted, starving woman & her sickly children. A London newspaper columnist made her a feature article in the ILN = Illustrated London News or In...

Just to update the progress with these Registers : I am continuing to analyse & re-work through them to check for & add any extra gleanings of info. All contributions welcome. I have the baptism years 1872-1878 still to go. After that, www.ClareLibrary.ie needs them re-written in a standardised form...

Hi David Lynch , I believe that Paddy W has just forwarded my contact to you? It may be timely to remind everyone here that I am STILL working on DRAFT transcriptions of the Carrigaholt Marriage & Baptism Registers : extended-Catholic Parishes covering all townlands in Moyarta Civil Parish & Kilball...

In reply to Steve, and to anyone else interested in the combined Catholic Parish Marriage & Baptism Registers for this period (1852/3 to March 17th 1878), -- and covering the area from www.LoopHeadClare.com lighthouse north up the Atlantic Cliffs past Moveen, almost to Kilkee, --- east to www.Carrig...