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There was an Alexander McMahon married to a Mary Culligan.They had 10 children baptised in Kilrush between 1828 & 1848. I think the family later moved to Kildysart. I have a couple of DNA matches with a Lyons family headed by a Flan Lyons from Ennis.

One who makes a business of buying & selling land.

Here is the death records of Patrick Hennessy & Cornelius McMahon, cause of death, bullet wound, Shock & haemorrage in County Gaol
Limerick on 20th January 1923 https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/ ... 385106.pdf

Here is the marriage record of Cornelius McMahon & Bridget Canty on 28th June 1916 in Meelick, father's Thomas McMahon & Patrick Canty https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/ ... 554115.pdf

The odd name out here is his mother Ann Mee, not many of that name in Co.Clare. A check of the Griffiths Land Valuation of 1855 lists only 6 people of that name in 2 parishes Kilfenora & Kilfarboy both close to each other. I would try searching in that area. http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/...

Here's a link to some Quilty marriages in Tipperary & Limerick etc. Killaloe & Tipperary are linked by a bridge across the Shannon, if you walk across the bridge from Killaloe you are in Ballina Tipperary. https://familysearch.org/search/collection/results?count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3Aquilty~&collect...

More than likely he was the local matchmaker, and so would appear as a witness at the wedding.

A Batt Corry/Sally Hickey from Moyarta had a daughter Elon baptised in Kilrush on 23 Nov 1843. Here is the link to the parish registers
http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls0 ... 8/mode/1up

Here's the family in the 1901 Census http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/r ... 001041694/ & living in Dublin in the 1911 Census
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/r ... 000039053/

You may have to scroll slowly through the parish registers to find the children of William Frawley ( sometimes Fraley etc) / Mary McNamara. Looks like the priest abbreviated the McNamara name to McNa in the following record of Fanny Fraley baptised on 14 June 1842 http://registers.nli.ie/registers/v...

William Frawley & Mary McNamara were married in Newmarket on Fergus on June 3rd 1841 per the parish record on the following link
http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls0 ... 2/mode/1up

A John Grogan died at Market Square on 26-4-1900 aged 75 and married at time of death.

Hello Paddy, I think the Grogan's may have been from Kilmurry-McMahon. Mai McMahon who died some years ago aged 104 was related to them. Her granddaughter Marian McMahon Jones might know the connection if not then her father would. I think Mai's maiden name could have been Grogan. Don't know if the ...

Here's a clue, born 15 Dec 1876 in Gurtaderra (Gortaderry) per https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGDH-F2K
The family are in he 1901 Census here http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... y126_7.htm

Here's a link to a couple of marriages https://familysearch.org/search/collect ... id=1708704