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Hi CityFitz - Just checking in if you are carrying out this work ? I would be particularly interested in the Truagh Catholic records. Hi Friends of County Clare I wish to notify you my intention to transcribe related Parishes to Cratloe. Doonass and Trugh Catholic Parishes I expect to have completed...

Thanks to all for the very interesting information. And thanks to Lenc for the PM. Declan makes an interesting point - it is possible/probable that the Catholic Spaights originated from the children bourne as a result of a marriage of a Protestant Spaight and a Catholic. When I was searching for the...

Thanks Polycarp and mgallery for your replies and information. I think the Samuel Spaight you referenced, was a great great grandson of James Spaight (Woolich, Kent) who landed in Coleraine in the 1650's and later in East Clare. Samuel Spaight would have been very much protestant, so it is interesti...

How common would it have been in the 17th/18th century for members of the English Protestant descendry in Ireland to have converted to Catholism ? Would any records of same be kept anywhere ? I am trying to traces the origin of the Spaight family surname in Ireland. There are several sources that st...