Hallihan/Hallahan - Touraneena/Kilconey
I have recently found a record indicating that my great-great-grandfather resided in Touraneena parish, and am curious if there are others researching this name in this area.
Patrick Hallihan married 1850 in Kilgobinet Mary Murray, and their son Patrick was baptized in 1853 in Touraneena - my assumption is that Mary's church was Kilgobinet and Patrick's was Touraneena.On Griffith's and the Tithe there were Hallihans in Kilconey (very near to Touraneena), as well as a a Murray in Balleighteragh East on Griffith's (near to Kilgobinet).
Patrick had an older sister Margaret who married Daniel Mulcahy and emigrated to Massachusetts before Patrick and his wife did.When there, they both gave their parents' names as Patrick Hallihan and Johanna Keeffe.There is a birth record from 1799 at St Mary's Clonmel for a Johanna "Keef" daughter of Denis, and a Denis Keefe in Kilconey on the Tithe, not sure if this is just a coincidence.
If anyone else is working on these names and/or these locations I would love to compare notes.Thank you!