As mentioned Irish records are patchy: Bomb at the records office in 1922, and the lack of paper so they pulped many census records has not helped.

Quote Originally Posted by Kilted Rogue View Post
where does one go from here.
First place I would start are the free sites:

The 1901 and 1911 Irish census, looking for names and relatives that may be similar: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

Next place to search is the Griffith valuation, this was a land survey carried out in about 1840's 50's and names all the tenants on the land: again free: http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffi...tion/index.xml

This site (free) http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/index.html has some records to search.

After that there is http://www.rootsireland.ie/ its free to join and you can do searches, and narrow down with advanced search, they have a lot of the parish records, probably the most comprehensive for Ireland, but is expensive when you want to view the record (5 Euro) and you don't get to see the original.