Kinsella Blog- Ellen Kinsella Quinn and her family- baptismal records from Mooncoin

Free Saint Patrick's Day access to genealogy sites seems to be good to me!

Today I found my grandmother, Nellie Quinn's, mother (my great- grandmother)  Ellen Kinsella on findmypast.com.

Nellie Quinn Allen seated between her parents, Thomas Quinn and Ellen Kinsella.
The baptismal record which I found shows Ellen Kinsella baptized on January 15, 1834. Her parents were John Kinsella and Margaret Grace, and her sponsers were Thomas Kinsella and Mrs. Farrell. She was born in a place called Baronswood and was baptized in the parish of Carrigeen and Mooncoin, which is in the diocese of Ossory. Here is the record:

                           http://registers.nli.ie//registers/vtls000635316#page/1/mode/1up



 I searched farther on the register and found her sister, Bridget Kinsella, born in Baronswood, on October 1, 1838, to John Kinsella and Margaret Grace with Thomas Walsh (likely the Thomas Walsh that was husband to Ellen Kinsella, John Kinsella's sister) and Johanna Farrel as sponsors.


Her brother Robert was born March 23, 1843, in Baronswood to the same parents, with James Walsh and Bidy Costello as sponsors.


 And Patrick was born in Baronswood on February 11, 1849 with Rich Walsh and Judy ? as sponsors. (If you can figure out the name let me know!)
 

For someone who has not been there, Irish place names can be very confusing! Baronswood, which was also called Kileavaroon, is a neighborhood in a townsland called "Clogga" in the parish of Mooncoin in the county of Kilkenny. It is a beautiful area, surrounded by the Walsh hills and Comeragh mountains and near the River Suir. 








This is where I first thought they lived- the townland of Clogga.  In the mid 1800's Clogga had a post office, and a blacksmith.


Griffith's Valuation of 1850 shows John Kinsella splitting a lease on 166 acres of land in Clogga with James Kinsella, John Delahunty, and Simon Kilmartin. Each had a house, land, and outbuildings. They leased the land from John B. Bowers, Esq.

The columns show the map reference, the name of the townsland (Clogga) and occupiers of the land, the name of the lessors (landlords), the description of the tenement- and in this case "offices" means outbuildings, the acreage of the land, the net value of the land, the net value of the buildings, and the total net value.  




Heritage World Family History Services. Ireland, Griffith’s Valuation, 1847-1864 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. 
Original data: General Valuation of Ireland. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Microforms Ltd., 1978. National Archives, Dublin and Public Record Office, Belfast.



 



 





















This site was used for the blog and contains more detailed information on Mooncoin.
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