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Here attached is my transcription of Kilkee parish baptisms 1869 - 1881: https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls ... 1/mode/1up

The first few pages are very faded and are mostly illegible and the same applies to several later entries, resulting in a record number of question marks. In order to reduce the amount of question marks a bit, I checked the civil records for some births on http://www.genealogy.ie - but only when it was not too time-consuming (McInerny, Keane, Walsh and some other names are very time-consuming). Any names I found by that method, I have put in italics - lest anybody think I have special powers of vision .
I noticed that the name “Johanna” in the baptisms is very often entered as “Susan” in the civil records. On one occasion in the baptisms, “Owen” (Hennessy) is given as “Eugene” - Eugene is a version of Owen/Eoin. And it’s clear that Flahive and Lahive/Lahiff are the same surname.
As usual I welcome corrections.

Sheila

The transcription, which was attached here, has been transferred to Donated Material: http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... ecords.htm

Thank you so much for transcribing the Kilkee parish register! My paternal grandfather, Bryan Kirwan, and his siblings emigrated from Kilkee to Bridgeport and other towns in Connecticut, USA, mostly in the 1880s. My paternal grandmother, Johannah Kelly, may have been from Kilkee as well, but she has proven harder to track down. They were part of a network of relatives and/or friends with names I also see in the Kilkee records: DeVitt, Hassett, Haugh, and others. Having the records in Excel format will make it so much easier to focus my ongoing research.