Hi Andrew
You may have all of the below already, but bear with me, please.
I don’t know if you have looked at “Donated Material” in the “Genealogy and Family History” section of clarelibrary.ie. There you will find many donations to Clare Library, including transcriptions of the parish registers. Parish Priests kept registers of baptisms and marriages, but not of deaths (except in a couple of cases). These registers (up to the year 1880) were made viewable online by the National Library of Ireland (
https://registers.nli.ie), and the one for Kilmaley parish is here:
https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0796. John Mayer’s transcription of the Kilmaley baptisms is here:
https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/cocla ... jmayer.htm.
My own transcription is here:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7081, and I have attached a slice of it relating to the Donnellans in Kilmaley. I should say at this point that there were many records that I simply could not decipher, plus not every baptism was recorded. I see only two for Pat Donnellan and Judy Conole. One of these is for John who was baptised in May 1845.
Pat Donnellan probably married Judy Conole about 1840. I looked at the Kilmaley Marriages but do not see that marriage. It may be that Judy was from another parish. Marriages almost always took place in the parish of the bride, so their marriage may be recorded in some other parish register. My transcription of the Kilmaley marriages was not from the original register but from an article in The Kilmaley Magazine:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7020 (scroll down for the attachments).
I imagine that Pat Donnellan was born about 1820. There are very few parish registers in Co. Clare that go back to that date, so I am doubting that you will find a record of his baptism, but I hope that you do. Don’t forget to let us know!
And now, finally to your query as to a birth record for Susan: I notice that the record of the marriage of John and Susan gives her father as Michael Carney, and her address as Magowna:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/ ... 208237.pdf
The Kilmaley baptisms show the baptisms of several children of Michael Carney of Magowna. I attach a slice of my transcription below. There are records for seven children – I am counting where the mother is called Bridget (the sponsor is called Bridget and I think the priest got confused between mother and sponsor). There is no child called Susan, but there is a child called Johanna baptised 17 Apr 1845, and Johanna was a variant of Susan (yes, hard to believe, but true – there are many examples).
Sheila
Edit: I have deleted the attachments in order to make space for an attachment on another topic.