Thomas McKenna (1772–1835)

Proof status · 15 June 2026

Documented Existence

The strongest direct proof now in hand is the photographed Kilshenane / Kilsynan McKenna-Hegarty headstone, saved at wiki/assets/graves/kilshenane-mckenna-headstone.jpeg and summarized in raw/evidence/thomas-mckenna-1772-kilshenane-headstone-proof-2026-06-10.md. The inscription names Thomas McKenna, gives his death as 5 May 1835, names Jane Ffoulkes McKenna as his wife, gives her death as 7 Dec 1840, and names their son Thomas McKenna, died 16 Jan 1870, with wife Annie Thornton McKenna, died 3 May 1895. This proves Thomas's memorialized existence, Jane's existence, their spouse relationship, and the next-generation Thomas link. It does not by itself prove Thomas's parents, Jane's father, or the 1798-story details.

Strict correction, 15 June 2026: no independent official Irish non-cemetery record has yet been found that proves the elder Thomas McKenna (1772-1835) himself as Jane Ffoulkes McKenna's husband, a Ballyduhig/Kilshenane resident before 5 May 1835, or the same man as any military, probate, tithe, or church-register candidate. A blunt status note is now preserved at raw/evidence/non-cemetery-irish-record-proof-status-thomas-1772-2026-06-15.md and .html. The cemetery/headstone evidence was supplied by John McKenna; everything else currently found is secondary tradition, a same-name control, a same-place/collateral lead, or a likely next-generation record until bridged.

Five-lane proof goal, 18 June 2026: raw/evidence/five-lane-thomas-mckenna-proof-goal-2026-06-18.md and .html now convert the current next steps into five actionable retrieval lanes: Kerry Ballyduhig/Kilshenane estate and freeholder records, Listowel Church of Ireland Jane burial lookup for Dec. 1840-Jan. 1841, TNA WO 97/189/104 full military service papers, Thurles Protestant/Church of Ireland/Foulkes records, and the IGP/Kabristan/Monaghan source behind Patrick McKenna of Aghacla, 1783, plot 126. All five lanes now have exact repository/source targets and copy-ready search wording. They are not new proof yet; they are the narrowed source-access tasks most likely to produce a real bridge.

Five-lane run result, 18 June 2026: raw/evidence/five-lane-thomas-mckenna-proof-goal-run-2026-06-18.md and .html now records the actual run. All five lanes were checked against the available public, catalogue, saved-local, and supplied-text evidence. No new identity-proof document was found. Each lane now ends at a specific access boundary: Kerry Library/TCD estate retrieval, Listowel Church of Ireland burial-register access, TNA non-digitised full papers, Thurles-area Church of Ireland/local-custody access, and Kabristan/Tydavnet/PRONI/PHSI source access.

Outbound proof-email packet, 22 June 2026: raw/evidence/outbound-proof-emails-thomas-jane-2026-06-22.md and .html now turns those access boundaries into copy-ready repository requests. It preserves separate messages for Kerry Library, TCD Research Collections, the Listowel COI/RCB/NAI burial route for Jane, TNA WO 97/189/104 plus ADM 1/2363/17, Thurles-area Church of Ireland, South Tipperary / Bru Boru / RootsIreland, Monaghan County Library, Clogher Historical Society, PRONI/PHSI, and Kabristan. This is not proof; it is the outgoing retrieval packet designed to get register pages, archive scans, or formal negative answers.

Official Ballyduhig civil-death control, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/irishgenealogy-civil-death-thomas-mckenna-ballyduhig-1873-control-2026-06-16.html now preserves an official IrishGenealogy civil death register image for Thomas M'Kenna / McKenna of Ballyduhig, died 4 Jan 1873, registered in Ballyhorgan/Listowel, age 80, married, farmer. This is the first official civil-registration record found in this continuation that places a Thomas McKenna directly at Ballyduhig, but it is not elder-Thomas proof: it is 38 years after the memorial 5 May 1835 death, implies birth about 1792/1793 rather than 1772, and conflicts with the headstone statement that elder Thomas and Jane's son Thomas died 16 Jan 1870. Current classification: official same-place Thomas record / possible date-conflicting next-generation candidate until a second source explains the date conflict.

Continuation, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/continuation-official-boundary-census-coolnaleen-military-2026-06-16.html now preserves the added official boundary checks. A live NAI Census Search Forms query for applicant McKenna with father Thomas McKenna and mother Jane returned No Results. Live NAI Tithe variant controls returned no Kerry results for Kinnal, Kennal, or Thos Kinna, and one official Kunnal, Thos result at Coolnaleen Lower, Kilshenane, 1825. The later 1849 NAI Valuation Office Books page for Coolnaleen Lower names Patrick Kinna and John Kinna, so the Kunnal/Kinnal/Kinna spelling lane remains serious, but it still does not name Jane, Ballyduhig, a known child, or the 5 May 1835 death. The TNA WO 97/189/104 Tydavanet soldier remains an age-compatible same-name candidate only because the TNA catalogue says the record is not digitised and gives no Jane/Kerry bridge.

All-Ireland tithe candidate map, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/nai-tithe-all-ireland-thomas-mckenna-variant-candidate-map-2026-06-16.html now preserves an official NAI Tithe Applotment Books sweep for Thomas/Thos McKenna, Kenna, Kinna, Ginna, Gnaw, and Kunnal variants without assuming Monaghan. It finds multiple official same-name/candidate rows across Kerry, Tipperary, Monaghan, Louth, Meath, Leitrim, Sligo, King's County/Offaly, Queen's County/Laois, Wicklow, and Mayo. This broadens the control map but does not prove elder Thomas: the strongest local row remains Kunnal, Thos at Coolnaleen Lower, Kilshenane, Kerry, 1825; the strongest Thurles row remains Kenna, Thos at Castle Meadow, Thurles, Tipperary, 1833; and the Monaghan rows remain candidate controls only because none names Jane, Foulkes, Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, a known child, or the 5 May 1835 death.

Descendant branch official check, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/michigan-patrick-sarah-thomas-stack-branch-check-2026-06-16.html now preserves an official Archives of Michigan death certificate for Thomas Stack McKenna, born 11 Jan 1833 in Ireland, died 20 Jun 1908 in Dickinson County, Michigan, naming father Patrick McKenna and mother Sarah Stack. This matches the saved official Listowel baptism of Thomas Gnaw, Coolnaleen, baptized 13 Jan 1833, son of Patrick Gnaw and Sarah Stack. This is a solid official bridge for the Patrick + Sarah Stack Michigan branch, but it still does not name Patrick's parents and therefore does not prove elder Thomas McKenna (1772-1835) or Jane Ffoulkes/Foulkes McKenna.

NYC descendant branch official check, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/nyc-hvr-ellen-mckenna-flood-1924-death-certificate-check-2026-06-16.html now preserves the official NYC Historical Vital Records death certificate for Ellen Flood, died 3 Oct 1924 in Manhattan, certificate D-M-1924-0024268. The certificate names her father as Edward McKenna (not Thomas; possibly the expected Edmund/Edmond under an Edward/Edmund reporting confusion) and mother as Ellen Stack, both born Ireland. This confirms the McKenna + Stack descendant-branch clue but still does not name grandparents, Ballyduhig, Kilshenane, Kerry, Jane Ffoulkes/Foulkes, or the 5 May 1835 death, so it is not proof of elder Thomas/Jane.

Listowel COI / 1851 Census Search continuation, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/listowel-coi-jane-burial-census-search-continuation-2026-06-16.html now preserves the official Listowel Church of Ireland register-boundary check, the public IrishGenealogy Jane-burial variant sweep, and the NAI 1851 Census Search Forms Cen/S/12/106 McKenna (Thornton) Ballyduhig images. The Church of Ireland list says Listowel burials survive 1836-1999 but registers for 1790-1835 were reported missing, so Thomas's reported 5 May 1835 burial may fall in a genuine archival gap. Jane's reported 7 Dec 1840 death falls inside surviving Listowel burial coverage, but the saved IrishGenealogy public-index searches found no Jane McKenna/Foulkes variant, and the later surname-only Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke/Fowkes burial controls also returned No results found; the next real Jane lookup is the Listowel COI burial register around Dec. 1840 / Jan. 1841 through NAI microfilm or local/RCB access. The NAI 1851 Census Search evidence documents a McKenna (Thornton) household at Ballyduhig, Kilshenane and an applicant Elizabeth MacKenna with father Thos. and a Thornton mother line. A townland-only NAI Census Search query for Ballyduhig returned exactly four 1851 rows and no additional Thomas/Jane/Foulkes bridge. This is next-generation Thomas/Thornton evidence and still does not prove elder Thomas or Jane Ffoulkes in an official non-cemetery record.

Official IrishGenealogy parent/burial/civil-death boundary, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/irishgenealogy-parent-burial-ann-civil-boundary-2026-06-16.html now preserves a parent-field and burial follow-up. The official "other recorded persons" parent search was validated against the known 1831 Listowel Thomas Gnaw baptism, then used for Thomas/Thos + Jane combinations in Listowel, Lixnaw, and Kerry from 1795-1835. It found no McKenna/Kenna/Gna/Gnaw/Foulkes child bridge: the Listowel Thomas+Jane hits are non-target Stack/Barrett baptisms, and the 24 county-wide no-surname hits are non-target Listowel/Tralee/Dingle/Kilcolman/Annascaul/Killarney/Castletownbere controls. Follow-up Listowel church-burial checks found no indexed Thomas burial in 1835 and no indexed Jane burial in 1840-1841. A wider Ann/Anne/Annie civil-death check around 1895 found no Ann/Anne/Annie McKenna/Kenna/Thornton target.

Recorded-person/sponsor expansion, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/irishgenealogy-recorded-person-thomas-jane-gna-gnaw-cluster-2026-06-16.html now preserves official IrishGenealogy Listowel/Lixnaw detail pages for the local Gna/Gnaw/Ginna/Kenna cluster. It documents Thomas Gna as sponsor at Ballygologue in 1821, Thomas Gnaw as sponsor at Gortaglanna in 1825, Thomas Kenna as father at Gortaglanna in 1827, Thomas Gnaw as father at Ballyduhig in 1831 with Elizabeth Dunne, and Jane Ginnaw as sponsor at Rathea in 1838. This is real official non-cemetery evidence for local Thomas/Jane-name McKenna-variant people, including one Thomas at Ballyduhig before 1835, but it is still not elder-Thomas/Jane proof: none names Foulkes/Ffoulkes, none pairs Thomas with Jane, the Ballyduhig 1831 mother is Elizabeth Dunne, and Jane Ginnaw could be elder Jane, daughter Jane, or another local Jane.

NAI Census Search parent-field expansion, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/nai-census-search-parent-field-thomas-jane-expanded-control-2026-06-16.html now preserves a wider official Census Search Forms control. The Kerry-wide query for father Thomas and mother Jane, with no surnames, returned No Results. All-Ireland queries for father Thomas/Thos McKenna/Kenna with mother Jane, and father Thomas with mother Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Jane Foulkes, also returned No Results. The broad all-Ireland father Thomas + mother Jane no-surname control returned 70 records, proving the query path works, but none are Kerry, McKenna/Kenna/Ginna/Gnaw/Guinaw, or Foulkes/Ffoulkes targets. This closes a public indexed Census Search route; it does not disprove the family and does not replace the archival Listowel COI, estate-paper, probate, freeholder, and full military-service-paper tasks.

NAI Census Search Kilshenane and surname-variant continuation, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/nai-census-search-kilshenane-surname-variant-continuation-2026-06-16.html now preserves the official place-wide Kilshenane/Ballyduhig/Coolnaleen/Coolatun/Rathea controls plus all-Ireland applicant-surname checks for McKenna/MacKenna/Mackenna/Kenna/Kinna/Ginna/Gna/Gnaw/Guinaw/Kunnal/Mc Kenna/M'Kenna/Mac Kenna with father Thomas/Thos or mother Jane. Parish-wide Kilshenane returns 30 rows; the only target surname rows are the already known Ballyduhig McKenna index row and Elizabeth MacKenna, father Thos, mother Anne Thornton. Coolnaleen/Coolnaleen Lower returns only a Joy/Mackellegott control, Coolatun returns No Results, and Rathea returns Larkin/McElligott controls with no McKenna/Foulkes target. The only other positive target-surname parent controls are non-target McKenna rows in Leitrim, Cavan, and Fermanagh. New father Thomas/Thos + mother Fowke/Fowkes/Foulke/Folkes/Fulkes/Fulks controls return No Results. Mother-surname-only Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke/Fowkes/Foulke/Folkes/Fulkes/Fulks controls, with no father or applicant restriction, also return No Results. This adds no elder-Thomas/Jane bridge.

NAI Diocesan Wills Kerry-wide forename control, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/nai-dw-kerry-wide-thomas-thos-jane-control-2026-06-16.html now preserves surname-blank Kerry searches for Thomas, Thos, and Jane in the NAI Diocesan and Prerogative Wills index, plus spouse/additional-person field checks for Thomas + Jane/Foulkes combinations. The broad Thomas query returned 173 rows and still only exposes the already known target-relevant row: Kenna, Thomas, Coolatun, Killshanane, Kerry, 1828. The broad Thos query returned 19 rows with no target surname/place bridge. The broad Jane query returned 13 rows with no McKenna/Kenna/Ginna/Gnaw/Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke or Ballyduhig/Kilshenane/Coolatun/Coolnaleen target. The spouse/additional-person checks returned No Results for Thomas/Thos + Jane/Foulkes combinations in Kerry and for all-Ireland exact Thomas McKenna/Kenna + Jane/Foulkes spouse-field controls. A broader all-Ireland spouse/additional pass adds no bridge: surname-blank Thomas + spouse Jane returns only non-target Thomas Lawrence/Jane Hamlet in 1698; Thomas/Thos/McKenna/MacKenna/Mackenna/Mc Kenna/M'Kenna + Jane/Foulkes variants return no target; additional-name Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke/Folkes returns no target; and Jane Fowke remains only the non-target 1796 Cloyne/Cork control. This strengthens the probate-index boundary but does not prove elder Thomas or Jane.

Official archive-handle continuation, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/official-archive-handle-continuation-thomas-jane-2026-06-16.html now preserves exact-handle checks for CSO/REB/620/66/29, WO 97/189/104, Listowel/Feale yeomanry handles, Ormathwaite/Benn-Walsh estate handles, Kerry freeholder terms, and the Thurles Castle Meadow lane. No public result bridged any candidate to Jane/Foulkes, Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, a known child, Wexford/Bantry, Thurles residence, or the 5 May 1835 death. The remaining proof-producing work is therefore specific archive retrieval: Kerry Clerk of the Peace freeholder records, Benn-Walsh/Ormathwaite estate records, the Listowel COI Jane burial lookup, NAI Rebellion Papers originals/cards, TNA WO 97/189/104 full papers, Thurles-area COI registers/vestry material, and access-gated Drom-Inch or Killenaule/Moyglass RC layers.

Registry of Deeds mason continuation, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/irishdeedsindex-thurles-kenna-mason-registry-continuation-2026-06-16.html now preserves a targeted mason follow-up against the 1828 Coolatun/Killshanane Thomas Kenna probate clue. It found two early Thurles Kenna mason controls, Michael Kenna, mason, Thurles, memorial 384351 (1802 deed / 1805 registration), and Patrick Kenna, mason, Thurles, memorial 415045 (1808 deed / 1809 registration). These prove a real Kenna-mason cluster in Thurles/Tipperary, but the searches found no Thomas Kenna/McKenna + mason, no Kerry Kenna/McKenna + mason, and no Coolatun/Coolatin transcription-body bridge to Jane, Foulkes/Ffoulkes, Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, Wexford/Bantry, or the 5 May 1835 death.

Non-gravestone documentation is now also preserved in raw/evidence/thomas-mckenna-1772-non-gravestone-documentation-proof-2026-06-10.md. The strongest external published source is Richard Roche's 11 Aug 1998 Irish Times column, which names Thomas McKenna from Monaghan, Jane/Jennie Foulkes, their Listowel/Kilsynan setting, deaths in 1835 and 1840, and named children/descendant lines. A second published newspaper layer is now saved from The Northern Standard, 12 Jun 2008, p. 8: it identifies a north-Monaghan Thomas McKenna in the same 1798/Jane Ffoulkes/Kilsynan tradition, but uses 1775-1835 rather than the working 1772-1835. The strongest official same-place pre-1835 hook is the National Archives of Ireland diocesan/prerogative wills entry for Thomas Kenna of Coolatun, Killshanane, Kerry. A new probate deep dive at raw/evidence/nai-dw-thomas-kenna-coolatun-killshanane-1828-probate-deep-dive-2026-06-10.md and .html verifies that the manuscript column is Year of Probate, not just a loose event year. A follow-up place-control sweep at raw/evidence/nai-dw-ballyduhig-coolatun-kilshenane-place-controls-2026-06-10.md adds Timothy Brosnan or Brosnahan of Ballyduhig, Kerry, 1828 plus James O'Connell of Coolnaleen, Killshinane, Kerry, 1823 as neighborhood probate controls, but not McKenna proof. Because the Thomas Kenna probate year 1828 conflicts with the working 5 May 1835 death date, he is still treated as a probable older same-place Thomas Kenna/McKenna or collateral until another document ties him to Jane Foulkes or to the 1835 death.

1828 NAI field reading: Diocese: Ardfert and Aghadoe is the pre-1858 ecclesiastical probate-court jurisdiction for the index, not a Roman Catholic sacramental register label. District: Cork means the manuscript's District Registry Cork administrative label, not Thomas's residence. The row is therefore a Church of Ireland probate framework testamentary index entry for a Kerry resident, with Event Year = Year of Probate. It does not name Jane, a spouse, children, Ballyduhig, Monaghan, Wexford, or a death date.

The Irish Life and Lore Jack/Sue McKenna catalogue source is now isolated in raw/evidence/irish-life-lore-jack-sue-mckenna-wexford-bantry-route-2026-06-11.md. This is the clearest saved source for the Monaghan to Wexford 1798 to Bantry to Ballyduhig route through the John Joseph McKenna branch. It is positive published descendant-source documentation for the route, but not a contemporary 1798 Wexford record. The same search area also preserves a Jane Ffoulkes/Thurles descendant clue in the saved Listowel Connection Jack McKenna tag archive, while the BMH W.S. 1025 John J. McKenna statement is useful twentieth-century context rather than an elder-Thomas proof.

A focused Listowel Connection / Bryan MacMahon-style local-history extract is now saved in raw/evidence/listowel-connection-bryan-macmahon-thos-mckenna-jane-foulkes-local-history-2026-06-11.html, with the source page at raw/evidence/listowel-connection-lough-derg-troy-mckenna-foulkes.html. Its visible snippets include Thos. McKenna from Monaghan, married Jane Foulkes, and Hegarty grave at Kilsynan. This is positive local-history support for the Thomas + Jane + Monaghan + 1798/Wexford + Kilsynan tradition, but it remains narrative support rather than an official period record or proof of the exact Thurles stop.

A Thurles / Tipperary control pass is now preserved in raw/evidence/thurles-tipperary-thomas-mckenna-jane-foulkes-control-pass-2026-06-11.md. Philip J. McKenna II's interview makes Thurles the claimed refuge and Jane meeting-place after Wexford. The saved controls now show Geo. Foulkes among Protestant inhabitants of Thurles in 1786 and an official NAI Tithe Applotment row for Thos Kenna at Castle Meadow, Thurles, Tipperary, 1833. These make Thurles a real Foulkes/Kenna search lane, but they do not yet prove that elder Thomas or Jane lived there, and the 1833 tithe occupier is not merged with the Ballyduhig Thomas without another bridge.

A Tipperary 1798 rebellion-control refresh is now saved in raw/evidence/tipperary-1798-rebellion-control-refresh-2026-06-12.html. It makes the Kilshenane headstone's 1798 REBELLION TIPPERARY wording visible beside the church-register work and separates memorial tradition from contemporary proof. The saved May 2026 control pass checked Patrick C. Power's Tipperary court-martial work, Diarmuid O'Keeffe's South Tipperary 1798 narrative, Ruan O'Donnell's Philip Cunningham study, the 1798 Centre leader database, and published Tipperary yeomanry/Foulkes controls without finding a Thomas McKenna/Kenna or Foulkes target. This keeps the rebellion claim alive as a family-memory/archive problem, but the next proof route is NAI Rebellion Papers card-index/microfilm work plus newspapers and yeomanry rolls, not another public church-register pass.

Virtual Treasury Rebellion Papers boundary, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/virtualtreasury-rebellion-papers-t-mckenna-tipperary-boundary-2026-06-16.html now preserves an official NAI Rebellion Papers control from the saved Virtual Treasury result set. It identifies six 1803 records for McKenna, T., including NAI CSO/REB/620/66/29, described as McKenna, T. with information on the state of Co. Tipperary. This is relevant to the Tipperary rebellion lane, but it is not proof of elder Thomas: the catalogue gives only T., nearby records name Thea/Theo McKenna and point to Theobald McKenna as a competing identification, and the metadata has no image/transcription and no Jane, Ballyduhig, Kilshenane, Kerry, Wexford, Bantry, Thurles-residence, or 5 May 1835 bridge.

A National Archives, Kew 1798-era military-service search is now saved in raw/evidence/tna-thomas-mckenna-kenna-1798-era-military-search-2026-06-14.html. It found three official Thomas McKenna/Kenna-name military-service record instances whose catalogue date ranges cross 1798: WO 97/189/104, Thomas McKenna, born Tydavanet, Monaghan, 2nd Foot Guards, 1793-1814; WO 119/26/219, Thomas Kenna/Kinma/Kennagh, born Maryboro, Leix, Leix Militia, 1793-1814; and WO 97/1101/189, Thomas Kenna/Kinna, born Maryborough, Leix, Leix Militia, 1793-1829. A fourth 1798-era variant is WO 97/1136/98, Thomas Kenna of Kilfinton, Clare, 64th Foot / Royal Veteran Battalions, 1795-1813. The Tydavnet/Monaghan 2nd Foot Guards man remains the best official same-name military candidate for the Monaghan hypothesis because the name, age, birthplace, and service window fit the problem, but it is still unmerged because none of these records bridges to Jane Ffoulkes, Kerry, Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, Thurles, Wexford, or the 5 May 1835 death, and the new ADM 1/2363/17 Westminster/son-John counterweight below must now be reconciled first.

British-Army-first interpretation, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/thomas-mckenna-british-army-first-rebellion-interpretation-2026-06-16.html now preserves the plain reading. If the Tydavanet WO 97/189/104 soldier is the Kilshenane/Ballyduhig Thomas, then he was already in British Army service before the 1798 rebellion, because the 2nd Foot Guards service span is 1793-1814. In that case, "fought in the rebellion" could mean Crown-side service during the rebellion rather than United Irish/rebel service. This is a serious hypothesis, not a merge: no current catalogue evidence links the Tydavanet soldier to Jane Ffoulkes, Kerry, Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, Thurles, Wexford/Bantry, a known child, pension locality, or the 5 May 1835 death.

A 15 June 2026 Monaghan-hypothesis boundary note is now saved in raw/evidence/monaghan-origin-open-question-corroboration-2026-06-15.html. Current ruling: Monaghan/Castleblayney remains only an unproved hypothesis, not a birthplace or origin fact. The best official same-name Monaghan-born soldier candidate is TNA WO 97/189/104, the Thomas McKenna of Tydavanet/Tydavnet, Monaghan, but live TNA bridge checks for Foulkes, Jane Ffoulkes + McKenna, Ballyduhig, Kilshenane, Kerry, and Castleblayney return no bridge. The Aghaderry/Errigal Trough and Clontibret/Castleshane records are valuable Monaghan same-name or family-cluster controls, not a merge.

A 15 June 2026 place-neutral continuation note is now saved in raw/evidence/place-neutral-thomas-jane-origin-search-2026-06-15.html. It reruns official TNA exact-phrase searches without assuming Monaghan: Thomas/Jane/Foulkes combinations, Ballyduhig, Kilshenane, Kerry, Thurles, Tipperary, Wexford, Bantry, and surname-pair controls. It found no bridge to Jane, Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, Kerry, Thurles, Wexford, or Bantry. The only period-adjacent new official control is WO 97/919/35, Thomas Kenna born Roscrea, Tipperary, served 82nd Foot, discharged aged 23, covering dates 1835-1838; he is too young and too late for Thomas McKenna (1772-1835).

A follow-up TNA pension-locality and rebellion-bridge continuation is now saved in raw/evidence/tna-pension-locality-and-rebellion-bridge-continuation-2026-06-15.html. It checked official TNA catalogue combinations for pension, Chelsea, Kilmainham, discharge, Foot Guards, Tydavanet/Tydavnet, 1798, rebellion, Vinegar Hill, Wexford, and Tipperary. Result: no catalogue-level pension/discharge/rebellion bridge ties any military candidate to Jane Ffoulkes, Kerry, Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, Thurles, Bantry, Wexford, or the 5 May 1835 death. The Tydavanet soldier remains unmerged; the next real step is the full non-digitised WO 97/189/104 service papers.

TNA ADM Coldstream/Westminster counterweight, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/tna-adm-coldstream-westminster-counterweight-2026-06-16.html now preserves a live official TNA detail for ADM 1/2363/17. It records Thomas McKenna of 7 Regent Street, Vauxhall Road, Westminster petitioning in August 1827 for discharge of his son John McKenna, age 20, and stating that he served 21 years in the Coldstream Guards. Because the Tydavanet WO 97/189/104 man served 2nd Foot Guards from 1793-1814, also a 21-year span, this is an important possible same-service follow-up or counterweight. It still does not prove elder Thomas; if it is the same man, it adds Westminster/son-John context that must be reconciled before any Ballyduhig/Jane merge. The Great Denmark Street / Dublin Catholic-affairs Thomas McKenna catalogue rows are also preserved as public-affairs controls, not target proof.

Tydavnet baptism/parent and Old Graveyard check, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-baptism-parent-and-old-graveyard-patrick-mckenna-2026-06-16.html now preserves the specific parish-register and graveyard test for the TNA WO 97/189/104 Tydavanet soldier. This is a British War Office / Royal Hospital Chelsea service-paper reference, not an Irish parish record; the Irish component is the reported birthplace, Tydavanet/Tydavnet, Monaghan. Public Tydavnet/Tedavnet baptism coverage found so far starts too late for a 1770-1772 baptism: NLI Catholic baptisms begin 1 Nov. 1835, RootsIreland Roman Catholic baptisms begin 1835, the official Church of Ireland register list gives Tydavnet baptisms/marriages/burials from 1822, and Presbyterian Tedavnet/Scotstown coverage begins 1845. The IGP Tydavnet Old Graveyard transcription and saved printed-index crop both show MCKENNA, Patrick of Aghacla, 1783 at plot 126, and the saved 1796 flax-growers transcript includes M'Kenna, Patrick, Tedavnet, Monaghan. The IGP text file is titled Tydavnet Old Graveyard - Map of Graves, credits Jack Storey as contributor and Kathleen Myers as transcriber, and its same table also includes guardrail rows KERAN, Patrick, 1729, KENAN, James Francis, 1765, and COLL, Terence of Gola (Owen McKenna). Those are close-variant or embedded-name controls only; they do not replace plot 126 or name Thomas's parents. The IGP site note says the old graveyard was formerly controlled by Tydavnet Church of Ireland, included burials of all religions, dates back to the 1600s, and could not be fully photographed because of wall proximity. A five-image IGP audit confirms the public IGP set has sign/map/index-panel images, with Patrick visible on the printed index panel but no separate original gravestone close-up for plot 126. A separate Visions of the Past sweep saved and contact-sheeted 30 public Tydavnet Old Graveyard photos; no Patrick McKenna / Aghacla / plot 126 original stone was visible, and the one clear Patrick inscription in frame 15 reads as Treanor/Treaner, not McKenna. These are father-generation Tydavnet McKenna controls only; they do not prove Thomas's baptism, parents, Jane/Foulkes, Kerry, Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, or the 5 May 1835 death.

NLI Tydavnet earliest-register image pass, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/nli-tydavnet-earliest-register-image-pass-2026-06-17.html now preserves downloaded image evidence from the first 12 NLI marriage images (vtls000632894) and first 12 baptism images (vtls000632895). The image pass confirms the marriage title/start page at 18 Apr. 1825 and the baptism entries beginning in 1835, so the surviving public NLI baptism run cannot contain Thomas's c.1770-1772 baptism. It also adds two early Tydavnet parish-register McKenna collateral entries: Joannes McKenna, 22 May 1825, and Dominicus Smyth and Anna McKenna, 17 June 1826, with Franciscus McKenna visible as a witness. These entries document McKenna presence in the surviving Tydavnet marriage register, but they name no Thomas, no Patrick of Aghacla relationship, no parents, no Jane/Foulkes, no Kerry/Ballyduhig/Kilshenane bridge, and no link to WO 97/189/104.

NLI Tydavnet marriage-register cluster extension, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/nli-tydavnet-marriage-register-mckenna-cluster-extension-1827-1838-2026-06-17.html now preserves the next NLI marriage-image pass (vtls000632894-013 through 036) with contact sheets and crops. It documents a real Tydavnet McKenna cluster from 1832-1838, including Patricius McKenna in April 1832, Bernardus McKenna and Catharina McKenna of Tydavnet on 9 Mar. 1833, Elizabetha McKenna of Tydavnet in Feb. 1834, Hugo/Hugh McKenna of Tydavnet on 8 Aug. 1834, Maria McKenna on 15 Feb. 1835, and an exact Thomas McKenna marriage entry on 26 Oct. 1835 with witness Jacobus McKenna. The Thomas entry is important but is a same-name control, not elder-Thomas proof, because the Kilshenane/Ballyduhig headstone reports elder Thomas's death on 5 May 1835. The pass also sees Patricius McKenna as a later 1837 witness, but no entry states that Patrick of Aghacla was Thomas's father, and no Jane/Foulkes/Kerry/Ballyduhig/Kilshenane or WO 97/189/104 bridge appears.

IGP Tydavnet Old Graveyard McKenna cluster extract, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/igp-tydavnet-old-graveyard-mckenna-cluster-extract-2026-06-17.html now isolates every MCKENNA row in the public IGP transcription. It confirms Patrick McKenna of Aghacla, 1783, plot 126 and shows a visible McKenna-heavy plot-number section: plot 125 Hugh McKenna of Mullinahinchago, 126 Patrick of Aghacla, and plots 132-134 James of Mullochen, John/William/Ann, and Peter. It also lists other Tydavnet Old Graveyard McKenna rows at plots 21, 157, 160, 202, 204, 240, and 251, with variant controls KERAN Patrick, 1729 and KENAN James Francis, 1765 kept separate. Result: Patrick is positively documented in the graveyard transcription, but the cluster does not name Thomas, does not say Patrick was Thomas's father, and gives no wife, children, age, baptism, or parent proof.

Tydavnet source-anchor continuation, 16 June 2026: the same evidence note now pins the official parish/register boundary to NLI parish 0319 and the official place-name boundary to Logainm Tigh Damhnata / Tedavnet. Logainm validates Tedavnet as the English name and Tydavnet as a local name. The public bibliography also identifies John Gilsenan and Eileen McKenna, Townlands of Tydavnet Parish (2011, ISBN 978-0-9569958-0-3) as the next local-place acquisition target for testing whether IGP Aghacla maps to Aghaclogha, to another local form, or to a non-Tedavnet place-name control. Aghaclogha is the strongest Tedavnet candidate seen in public townland lists, but similarly spelled Aghnaclea (Kilmore) and Aghaclay (Aghabog) mean the mapping must remain unresolved until the original inscription, full Kabristan entry, or local townland source confirms the exact form.

Tydavnet local-book and access-boundary continuation, 16 June 2026: the saved Monaghan Spydus full-detail page for Townlands of Tydavnet Parish gives BRN 1980357, authors Canon John Gilsenan and Eileen McKenna, imprint Monaghan: Knockatallon Development Co., 2011, ISBN 9780956995803, subject Tydavnet - Local History - Townlands, and Total copies: 4, but no text extract. Current web searches for the ISBN/title and Aghacla/Aghaclogha/McKenna combinations exposed no public text or snippet. The saved NAI diocesan-wills Tydavnet residence search is a clean No Results page, and the Logainm Aghaclogha search remains behind security verification. These are tighter access boundaries, not Thomas baptism or parent proof.

Tydavnet public-catalogue continuation, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-public-catalogue-local-book-snippet-continuation-2026-06-17.html now preserves the follow-up local-book/annual snippet pass. OpenLibrary and Internet Archive exact-title searches for Townlands of Tydavnet Parish returned 0 hits; Wikipedia API exposed only two citation-level hits, Sheskin and Tydavnet, with no readable Aghacla/Aghaclogha/McKenna page text. OpenLibrary and Internet Archive exact-title searches for Tydavnet Parish Annual also returned 0 hits, and Wikipedia API searches for Aghaclogha + Tydavnet + McKenna and Aghacla + McKenna returned 0 hits. A Google Books API exact-title attempt returned HTTP 429, so it is an access/rate-limit boundary, not a no-result. Result: no new Thomas baptism, no parent proof, no Patrick relationship wording, and the local-book route remains a Monaghan library/direct-access task.

Tydavnet / Cahans / PHSI / Google Books continuation, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-cahans-phsi-googlebooks-continuation-2026-06-17.html now preserves the newest public-source boundary. The fuller Google Books Clogher/Monaghan page segment identifies James M'Kenna, a Tedavnet-native priestly collateral, not Thomas; it gives no parents, Jane, Kerry, or 1835-death bridge. PHSI's Ballyalbany Presbyterian Church Seat List 1804 page is real but Society-member gated, so no McKenna names are publicly visible there yet. The Cahans Project public pages strengthen Cahans as an adjacent Presbyterian lane because the congregation's records reach back into the 1750s and John Rogers's ministry covers 1767-1814, but the public pages checked here do not name Thomas, Patrick, Aghacla/Aghaclogha, Tydavnet/Tedavnet, or a target McKenna variant. Result: no baptism/parent proof; the live proof actions are PHSI/PRONI access to Cahans CR3/25/A/4, CR3/25/A/1, and CR3/25/B/2, PHSI access to the Ballyalbany seat list, RootsIreland/Monaghan account searches for early Cahans/Ballyalbany marriages and substitutes, the Cahans/Ballybay book Full Circle, and the full Kabristan Patrick entry.

Ballyalbany/Cahans public-copy continuation, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-ballyalbany-cahans-public-copy-continuation-2026-06-17.html now preserves a tighter public-copy search for the remaining Ballyalbany/Cahans source targets. Internet Archive returned 0 hits for Ballyalbany/Ballyalbany Presbyterian, OpenLibrary returned 0 hits for Ballyalbany + McKenna, and HathiTrust's exact-title API check for Historical Sketch of Ballyalbany Presbyterian Church returned HTTP 403, an access boundary rather than a no-result. The Tullycorbet Wikipedia reference adds a concrete older handle for David Nesbitt's Full circle: a story of Ballybay Presbyterians: Cahans Publications, 1999, ISBN 9780953622603, with a Google Books route; Google Books API returned HTTP 429, and Internet Archive returned only unrelated Better World Books donation/pallet metadata for the exact title/ISBN. Result: no public OCR copy, no Thomas baptism, no parent proof, and no stronger Patrick-of-Aghacla relationship; the 1751 Ballyalbany call, 1804 Ballyalbany seat list, Cahans CR3/25/A/4, and Full Circle remain source-access tasks.

Tydavnet/Cahans public-index refresh, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-cahans-public-index-refresh-2026-06-17.html now preserves a fresh API/public-index pass. Internet Archive and OpenLibrary returned 0 results for Cahans + McKenna, Tullycorbet + McKenna, Ballyalbany + McKenna, Aghaclogha + McKenna, and Aghacla + McKenna. PHSI's public WordPress JSON search returned 11 general/late McKenna pages, no M'Kenna, one Cahans + McKenna hit that resolves to member-gated Deaths recorded in "The Witness" 1879, and no Ballyalbany + McKenna hit. Google Books API returned HTTP 429, and Jina/FamilySearch catalogue attempts returned HTTP 451, so those are access boundaries rather than no-results. Result: no Thomas baptism, no parent proof, no original Patrick stone image, and no Patrick relationship bridge; Cahans CR3/25/A/4, PRONI/PHSI/FamilySearch Cahans baptism-register access, RootsIreland early Cahans marriage/substitute searches, full Kabristan, and Townlands of Tydavnet Parish remain the proof-producing access tasks.

Cahans Project WordPress API / Full Circle boundary, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/cahans-project-wp-api-and-full-circle-boundary-2026-06-17.html now preserves the Cahans site's own public search/media endpoint results. Cahans wp-json/wp/v2/search returns only a modern Cathy MacKenna Cookery Demonstration for McKenna/Kenna/MacKenna, no Kinna, no Tydavnet/Tedavnet/Ballyalbany, two non-target Patrick event pages, and four general Thomas/site-history pages. Cahans media endpoint checks for McKenna/Mc Kenna/M'Kenna/MacKenna/Kenna/Kinna, Thomas, Patrick, Tydavnet/Tedavnet, Ballyalbany, Aghacla, and Aghaclogha all return 0. The public book page identifies David Nesbitt's current 535-page Full Circle - A story of Ballybay Presbyterians, revised to 2022, as a concrete source-access target for Cahans, Derryvalley, Second Ballybay, tenant right, 1798, and emigration history. Result: no Thomas baptism, no parent proof, no Patrick relationship bridge, and no hidden public Cahans-site media/post target; Full Circle and the Cahans CR3/25 register/index items remain access tasks.

Cahans/Ballyalbany public-web recheck, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-cahans-ballyalbany-public-web-recheck-2026-06-17.html now preserves a separate exact-query pass over the adjacent early Presbyterian lane. Searches for Cahans/McKenna variants, CR3/25, FamilySearch film 1279239, Ballyalbany/Belanalbany/Second Monaghan, the 1751 call to Rev. Thomas Clark, the 1804 Ballyalbany seat list, and Cahans Exodus/DIPPAM handles surfaced no public transcript, scan, snippet, or index row naming Thomas, his parents, Patrick of Aghacla, or a Tydavnet/Tedavnet residence. This keeps Cahans CR3/25/A/4, CR3/25/A/1, CR3/25/B/2, FamilySearch 1279239 item 16, Ballyalbany's 1751 call, and the 1804 seat list as access tasks rather than proof.

Tydavnet/Cahans/graveyard exact-web continuation, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-cahans-graveyard-exact-web-continuation-2026-06-17.html now preserves another exact public-web pass over the remaining proof targets: PRONI/Cahans handles CR3/25/A/4, CR3/25/A/1, CR3/25/B/2, and MIC.1P/172; Cahans/Tullycorbet McKenna baptism variants; FamilySearch film 1279239; Patrick McKenna + Aghacla/Tydavnet Old Graveyard terms; Tydavnet/Tydavanet/Tedavnet Thomas variants; Aghaclogha/Aghacla place terms; and the Clogher Record stable IDs. No new public baptism, parent record, open register shortcut, original Patrick stone close-up, Clogher Record text, or Patrick-to-Thomas relationship bridge surfaced. The live source anchors remain unchanged: IGP documents MCKENNA Patrick of Aghacla, 1783, plot 126; NLI Tydavnet baptisms begin 1 Nov. 1835; RootsIreland's public table keeps direct Tedavnet/Tydavnet RC baptisms at 1835 onward and keeps Cahans in the Presbyterian marriages column; PHSI/PRONI remain access routes; Kabristan's free page remains a guardrail/order route; and JSTOR landing pages for the 1954/1955 Clogher Record articles expose no open text here.

Tydavnet/Cahans/graveyard public-copy recheck, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-cahans-graveyard-public-copy-recheck-2026-06-17b.html now preserves a fresh public web/image-source pass over the same final public layer. Exact-phrase searches for Patrick McKenna of Aghacla, Tydavnet Old Cemetery / Old Graveyard, Bernard O'Daly's 1954 Clogher Record article, Cahans CR3/25 / FamilySearch 1279239, Ballyalbany, and Tydavnet/Tedavnet Thomas variants found no new public baptism, parent record, original plot-126 stone close-up, or Patrick-to-Thomas relationship bridge. The direct IGP text page remains the public source for MCKENNA Patrick of Aghacla, 1783, plot 126; the IGP directory explains that the old graveyard formerly belonged to Tydavnet Church of Ireland, included burials of all religions, and could not be fully photographed because of the wall/positioning; and the Visions of the Past photo set adds graveyard context but no target stone image. This is a visibility/checkpoint note, not new proof.

Tydavnet grave-index and local-book outlet recheck, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-grave-index-and-local-book-outlet-recheck-2026-06-17.html now preserves the remaining public outlet check for HistoricGraves, Find A Grave, BillionGraves, Patrick/Aghacla grave terms, Ross McKenna control terms, and the 9780956995803 / Townlands of Tydavnet Parish title layer. No new public grave-index entry, original plot-126 stone photo, Thomas baptism, parent record, or Patrick-to-Thomas relationship surfaced. It confirms that IGP remains the public Patrick anchor and that the next proof-producing work is still the full Kabristan entry/PDF, Monaghan Library local-book access, the 1954 Clogher Record article, and PRONI/PHSI/FamilySearch access to Cahans CR3/25.

Tydavnet retrieval packet, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-proof-retrieval-packet-2026-06-16.html now turns the remaining proof work into copy-ready source requests and proof tests for WO 97/189/104, Kabristan Patrick of Aghacla, Monaghan County Libraries, PRONI/PHSI, and RootsIreland/Monaghan Genealogy. It now also names the Cahans early-register route through PRONI MIC.1P/172 / C.R.3/25 and FamilySearch film 1279239 item 16, and records the current TNA API 403 access boundary for broad Tydavanet/Tydavnet/Tedavnet collateral rechecks. It is not new proof; it is the source-access checklist for breaking the current public-record ceiling.

IreAtlas Aghacla/Aghaclogha/Aghananimy continuation, 16 June 2026: the Tydavnet evidence note now preserves exact IreAtlas County Monaghan townland checks. Exact Aghacla returned no record. Exact Aghaclogha returned a 118-acre townland in barony Monaghan, civil parish Tedavnet, PLU Monaghan, Province Ulster, making it the best public place-name candidate for the IGP Aghacla row. Exact Aghnaclea returned a 167-acre Kilmore-parish control, and exact Aghaclay returned a 98-acre Aghabog-parish control, so those should not be used as Tydavnet parent clues. Exact Aghananimy returned a 118-acre townland in barony Monaghan, civil parish Monaghan, PLU Monaghan, Province Ulster. Therefore The MacKennas of Aghananimy is nearby same-barony McKenna context, not Tedavnet parish evidence unless its pages create a specific Tedavnet/Thomas bridge. Townlands.ie search was also saved as a boundary because its search page says site search no longer works. This strengthens the Aghaclogha lane but still does not prove the original inscription, Patrick's relationship to Thomas, or Thomas's parents.

Aghacla/Aghaclogha place-continuity continuation, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-aghacla-aghaclogha-logainm-townlands-griffith-census-continuity-2026-06-16.html now isolates the place-name and McKenna-continuity evidence for the Patrick clue. Townlands.ie's direct Aghaclogha page identifies Aghaclogha as a townland in Killylough ED, Tedavnet Civil Parish, Co. Monaghan, gives Irish name Achadh Clochach, and links Logainm ID 40792. Logainm/data.gov.ie confirm the official Government of Ireland API/dataset route, but exact Aghacla/Aghaclogha/Tedavnet/40792 API queries were credential-gated with HTTP 401 and the public Logainm page remained security-gated. The Failte Romhat Griffith transcript for Tedavnet lists Mc Kenna Francis and Mc Kenna Peter at Aghaclogha, and official NAI census results list 7 Mc Kenna rows there in 1901 and 6 McKenna rows there in 1911, including a Patrick household. This makes Aghaclogha the strongest public candidate so far for IGP Aghacla, but it still does not prove the original stone wording, does not prove Patrick's relationship to Thomas, and gives no Thomas baptism or parents.

Aghaclogha household-detail continuation, 17 June 2026: the same place-continuity note now preserves direct official NAI townland and household pages for Aghaclogha. The 1901 pages show an older James/John/Mary Mc Kenna sibling household and a Patrick Mc Kenna household with wife Bridget, brother Charles, and aunt Mary; the 1911 pages show likely continuations of those households, including Patrick McKenna with brother Charles and son Francis, plus James and John McKenna as elderly brothers. This strengthens the Patrick-name McKenna continuity at Aghaclogha, the best public candidate for IGP Aghacla, but it is late evidence only: no Thomas, no parent names, no original 1783 Patrick relationship, and no baptism or parent proof for Thomas McKenna born about 1770-1772.

NAI Census Search Aghaclogha/Aghacla parent-boundary, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/nai-census-search-aghaclogha-aghacla-parent-boundary-2026-06-17.html now preserves twelve official NAI Census Search Forms pages for the Aghaclogha/Aghacla lane. County Monaghan residence searches for Aghaclogha and Aghacla, with no surname restriction, applicant surname McKenna, and father surname McKenna, all returned No Results. A place-wide variant pass also returned No Results for Aghaclogh, Aghacloch, Aghaclough, Aghaclocha, Aghclogha, and Aghaclo. Because Tedavnet Census Search Forms do produce parent-naming McKenna controls at Crosses, Clontoe, and Annahagh, this is a real boundary on the candidate-townland parent-form route. It does not disprove Aghaclogha as the best public candidate for IGP Aghacla, and it does not weaken the Griffith/census continuity; it only says this official parent-naming index exposes no Aghaclogha/Aghacla McKenna form under these exact spellings.

Clogher Record 1955 place-name continuation, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/clogher-record-1955-place-names-monaghan-aghacla-access-continuation-2026-06-17.html now adds the exact local place-name article target for the unresolved Aghacla wording: James Smyth, "Place Names of The Barony of Monaghan," Clogher Record, vol. 1, no. 3 (1955), pp. 15-21, DOI 10.2307/27695411. Crossref found the article, JSTOR citation export confirms pp. 15-21, and Unpaywall reports it is closed with no repository copy. This may help test whether IGP Aghacla is Aghaclogha/Achadh Clochach or another local form, but the article text is not open locally yet and it does not prove Thomas's baptism, parents, or Patrick's relationship to Thomas.

Kabristan Tydavnet Old Graveyard cross-check, 16 June 2026: the same Tydavnet evidence note now also records the local Kabristan Early Burials in County Monaghan 1625-1800 (M-Y) abbreviated-index pass. It independently lists Tydavnet Old Graveyard entries for McKENNA Ann, McKENNA James of Mullockan, McKENNA James, McKENNA Peter, McKENNA Terence of Knockbelirony, McKENNA Terence of Knochballyroney, McKENNA William, KENAN Francis, KENAN James, and KERAN Patrick. The clean Patrick-name extraction is sharper: Kabristan's free text has KERAN Patrick at Tydavnet Old Graveyard, but no McKENNA Patrick at Tydavnet Old Graveyard; the visible McKENNA Patrick rows are Errigal, Donagh, or Donaghmoyne controls. Therefore Kabristan's free page is not a second source for IGP plot 126 unless the full record proves a match. The free Kabristan text does not expose Patrick McKenna of Aghacla, 1783, and its McKENNA Thomas of Anaghervy entry is at Round Tower Cemetery Clones, not Tydavnet. This strengthens the Tydavnet McKenna/Kenan/Keran graveyard-presence control but still gives no Thomas baptism or parent proof; full Kabristan individual records/publication pages are now the next graveyard target.

Expanded Kabristan extraction, 16 June 2026: the same evidence note now preserves a line-extraction pass through the saved Kabristan M-Y page. It confirms the free Kabristan text can expose relationship wording on some McKenna entries, including McKENNA Ann at Errigal as daughter of James McKenna of Mullarushin, McKENNA Owen of Drimferneskey as father of Bryan McKenna, and Donagh Old Graveyard McKENNA Patrick as son of Culla McKenna of Aughaboy. Those are useful proof-model and adjacent controls, but they are Errigal/Donagh, not Tydavnet. The Tydavnet McKenna/Kenan/Keran rows still show no parent/child wording, the only Patrick-form Tydavnet row in the free Kabristan text is KERAN Patrick, and Patrick McKenna of Aghacla remains absent from the free Kabristan text.

Kabristan order-route continuation, 16 June 2026: the Tydavnet evidence note now also preserves saved Kabristan Bookshop pages for the full Early Burials in County Monaghan 1625-1800 (PDF Format) product and the Individual Genealogy Record route. The full publication is Eileen Hewson, Kabristan Archives, 2015, ISBN 9781906276805, price £5.00; the individual-record route is £4.00 and covers memorial/burial, baptism, and marriage records from Kabristan Archives publications. Practical next request: MCKENNA, Patrick of Aghacla, 1783, Tydavnet Old Graveyard, plot 126, plus Tydavnet McKenna/Kenan/Keran controls if Patrick is not findable under that spelling. This is still a graveyard-source route, not a Thomas-parent proof.

Kabristan KENNA/Patrick Clones guardrail, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/kabristan-kenna-patrick-clones-guardrail-2026-06-17.html now preserves the exact correction and a fuller free-page McKENNA extraction. The nearby KENNA Patrick row in Kabristan's free M-Y page is Round Tower Cemetery, Clones, not Tydavnet Old Graveyard. The Tydavnet Patrick-form row visible there is KERAN Patrick. The expanded McKENNA block confirms Tydavnet Old Graveyard rows for Ann, James of Mullockan, James, Peter, Terence of Knockbelirony, Terence of Knochballyroney, and William, while McKENNA Thomas of Anaghervy is also Round Tower Cemetery, Clones. Therefore the free Kabristan page must not be counted as a second public source for IGP MCKENNA, Patrick of Aghacla, 1783, plot 126 unless the full Kabristan record proves a match. This does not weaken the IGP Patrick row; it prevents overclaiming and keeps the full Kabristan PDF/individual-record request as the next graveyard action.

Registry of Deeds Tydavnet boundary, 16 June 2026: the Tydavnet evidence note now also records the local Registry of Deeds Index Project Monaghan pass. It includes Michael McKenna, farmer, at Carranaguilla/Cornaguillagh?, parish of Tedavnet, in 1816, and Francis McKenna, writing clerk, in an 1836 release for part of Tattindonagh, parish of Tedavnet. It also has a same-name 1827 Thomas McKenna + Martha McKenna Monaghan/Cavan deed at Carnhollow/Cornahawla?, but that is not Tydavnet and gives no Jane, Kerry, Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, Patrick of Aghacla, baptism, or parent bridge.

Focused IrishDeedsIndex Tydavnet/Aghacla sweep, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/irishdeedsindex-tydavnet-aghacla-mckenna-registry-sweep-2026-06-17.html now preserves the full Registry of Deeds Index follow-up for Tydavnet/Tedavnet, Aghacla/Aghaclogha, McKenna/Kenna, Thomas, and Patrick. The only target-lane positive is still Michael McKenna, farmer, Carranaguilla/Cornaguillagh?, probable Tedavnet parish, in 1816. The same search preserves same-county controls for Thomas McKenna of Carnhollow/Cornahawla?, Co. Monaghan, in 1827, and Patrick McKenna of Mullaghbrackscott/Mullabrack (Scott), Donagh parish, in 1821, but neither is Tydavnet/Aghacla proof. Townland-index checks for McKenna/Kenna as party or note in Tedavnet/Tydavnet and denomination checks for Aghacla, Aghaclogha, Aghacloy, Aghnaclea, Carranaguilla, and Cornaguillagh all returned zero records. Result: useful substitute-source boundary plus one local McKenna presence/control, but no Thomas baptism, no parent proof, no Patrick-of-Aghacla relationship, and no Jane/Kerry/Ballyduhig/Kilshenane bridge.

Virtual Treasury 1821 Tedavnet census-substitute continuation, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/virtualtreasury-1821-tedavnet-mckenna-household-substitute-2026-06-16.html now preserves the public VRTI / Thrift Papers household layer. It proves multiple McKenna households in Tedavnet civil parish in 1821, including adult Patt/Patrick McKenna heads in Derrynahesco, Drumcoo, and Knockatallan, but it finds no Thomas McKenna, no baptism, no parent naming, and no Jane/Kerry/Ballyduhig/Kilshenane bridge. The apparent 1766 priests/friars result is now ruled out as a search collision: Tedavnet, Thomas/Patrick, and McKenna occur in separate highlighted rows/places. Those Patt/Patrick controls are mostly same-generation or younger than the target Thomas, not father proof.

Virtual Treasury Tydavnet spelling and adjacent-control continuation, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/virtualtreasury-tydavnet-variant-searches-2026-06-16/summary.html now preserves the VRTI API batch behind the raw JSON files. It confirms that McKenna + Tedavnet still returns only the known 1821 household extracts plus the 1766 collision; Thomas + McKenna + Tedavnet and Patrick + McKenna + Tedavnet return only the 1766 collision; Tydavanet, Tydavnet, Tydnavet, Aghacla, Aghaclogha, and exact Cahans variants return no target hit; and broad Cahan/Donagh searches are adjacent or term-collision controls. Result: no baptism, no parent proof, no Jane/Kerry bridge, and no stronger Patrick-of-Aghacla proof.

Virtual Treasury apostrophe/Mac/space variant guardrail, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/virtualtreasury-tydavnet-apostrophe-mac-space-variant-guardrail-2026-06-17.html now preserves the remaining VRTI spelling pass for M'Kenna, MacKenna, exact phrase Mc Kenna, split Mc + Kenna, and bare Kenna against Tedavnet/Tydavnet/Tydavanet, Aghacla, and Aghaclogha. Exact apostrophe, Mac, and spaced-phrase variants returned no target; split Mc + Kenna and bare Kenna returned only broad parliamentary/report/census/townland-index collisions. Result: no Thomas baptism, no parent proof, no Jane/Kerry bridge, no stronger Patrick-of-Aghacla source, and no relationship wording connecting Patrick to Thomas.

Virtual Treasury Grenogue parent-wording control, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/virtualtreasury-grenogue-mckenna-parent-wording-control-2026-06-17.html now preserves a real parent/sibling-wording hit for Thomas McKenna from Beryl Eustace's Registry of Deeds will abstracts. The source page names Rev. John McKenna and Mary McKenna, widow, of Grenogue, Co. Meath, and the IIIF text layer exposes wording for Thomas as a brother/son. This is not Tydavnet/Tedavnet, not Monaghan, and not a 1798/Kerry/Jane bridge. It proves the Virtual Treasury text layer can surface the kind of parent wording needed, but it must remain a same-name false-positive control, not parent proof for Thomas McKenna (1772-1835). The saved page image and search JSON are in raw/evidence/virtualtreasury-rod-eustace-grenogue-mckenna-page-046-2026-06-17.jpg and the matching virtualtreasury-rod-eustace-grenogue-mckenna-iiif-search-* JSON files.

NAI Census Search Forms Tedavnet parent-control continuation, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/nai-census-search-tedavnet-mckenna-parent-controls-2026-06-16.html now preserves official 1841/1851 parent-naming Tedavnet McKenna controls. Positive controls: Mary McKenna of Crosses, Tedavnet, with parents Patrick McKenna + Cath Woods and a household side note including Thos. dead; Margaret McKenna / Mrs Margaret Sherry of Clontoe with parents John McKenna + Rose McGuin; and Ellen McCaffrey of Annahagh with father John McKenna and mother Betty. Negative target controls: father Thomas McKenna, father Thos McKenna, applicant Thomas McKenna, and applicant Thos McKenna searches in Tedavnet/Tydavnet returned No Results. A targeted Crosses/Woods check confirms Patrick McKenna + Cath Woods returns only Mary McKenna, Thomas McKenna + Patrick McKenna + Cath Woods at Crosses returns No Results, all-County Monaghan Patrick McKenna + Woods still returns only Mary McKenna, and all-County Monaghan Thomas/Thos McKenna + Patrick McKenna + Woods returns No Results. A new parish-specific variant pass checked applicant and father surname Kenna, MacKenna, Mac Kenna, M'Kenna, M Kenna, and Mc Kenna under both Tedavnet and Tydavnet; all 24 saved result pages returned No Results. A follow-up render of NAI index pages 00589/00590 also shows Annahagh McKenna 1841/1851 searches marked not found, plus the Clontoe/Crosses McKenna (McGuin/Woods) index rows; this adds boundary context but no Thomas proof. This proves later parent-naming McKenna forms exist in Tedavnet, but it does not identify the parents of Thomas McKenna born c.1770-1772.

Crosses/Woods image re-read, 17 June 2026: the Mary McKenna 1851 form crop now saved at raw/evidence/nai-census-search-crosses-mary-mckenna-family-list-thos-dead-crop-2026-06-17.png confirms the handwritten side list sequence: Margt 15, Patk 13, Ellen 11, Thos dead, Jas 9, Anne 7, Cath 1, and Mary. Therefore the Thos dead clue is almost certainly a deceased child in Patrick McKenna and Cath Woods's Crosses household, not elder Thomas McKenna born about 1770-1772 and not a parent clue for him. The lower search-note crop is saved at raw/evidence/nai-census-search-crosses-mary-mckenna-lower-note-crop-2026-06-17.png; it adds no target-parent bridge.

NAI diocesan-wills boundary, 16 June 2026: the Tydavnet evidence note now also preserves official NAI public will-index searches for Tedavnet/Tydavnet residence plus Thomas/Patrick McKenna, M'Kenna, and MacKenna in Co. Monaghan to 1835. All returned No Results. This closes one public probate-index route only; it is not evidence that no Thomas or Patrick existed.

NAI Tithe Applotment Books Tedavnet continuation, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/nai-tithe-tedavnet-mckenna-controls-2026-06-16.html now preserves the official 1826 Tedavnet tithe controls. The NAI index returns five Mckenna occupier rows in Tedavnet: Pilan at Drumreaske, Owen at Tunnylone, and John, Jas B, and Pat at Knock Ballyronney. This proves a McKenna occupier cluster in Tedavnet and adds a Pat Mckenna control, but it finds no Thomas, no Aghacla/Aghaclogha tithe match, no parent naming, and no Jane/Kerry/Ballyduhig/Kilshenane bridge.

PRONI Names Tydavnet/Tedavnet substitute-index continuation, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/proni-names-tydavnet-mckenna-substitute-check-2026-06-16.html now preserves the PRONI Names pass over Pre-1858 Wills and Admons, 1740 Protestant Householders, 1766 Religious Census, and 1775 Dissenters Petitions. Place-only searches prove PRONI can return Tedavnet/Tydavnet rows: Mary Barlow, Eneas Brady, and John Burroughs under Tedavnet, plus Charles Baxter and Forster Scott under Tydavnet. But McKenna/M'Kenna/MacKenna/Kenna searches for Thomas, Patrick, or any forename in Tedavnet/Tydavnet return No records were found. Broad Thomas McKenna rows at Ardboe, Aughaderry, and Turkvallen remain same-name controls only. Patrick McKenna of Goland is quarantined as a Tyrone/Armagh-diocesan control because the companion Francis McKenna Goland detail names county Tyrone; PRONI says the original Goland documents no longer exist. A follow-up place distinction confirms Gola English and Gola Irish are real Tedavnet townlands and IGP has separate Gola rows, but PRONI says Goland, not Gola, and PRONI Names searches for McKenna at Gola returned no records. Goland is not Patrick of Aghacla or Tydavnet parent proof.

Duchas / Logainm Tydavnet continuation, 16 June 2026: the same Tydavnet evidence note now preserves a Schools' Collection transcript pass and an Aghaclogha place-name access boundary. Duchas API search for Tydavnet + McKenna returns 16 late-1930s local folklore/place-name transcript hits, including McKenna informants and residents at Feeba Ban, Drumcoobrady, Cooldavnet, Cullamore, Tydavnet, Greagh, and Dernasell. Tedavnet + McKenna, Tydnavet + McKenna, and Tydavanet + McKenna variant searches return no hits. Exact Thomas McKenna + Tydavnet, Thomas Kenna + Tydavnet, Patrick M'Kenna + Tydavnet, Aghacla, and Aghaclogha searches return no hits; exact Patrick McKenna + Tydavnet returns one non-target folklore/topographical mention, not Patrick of Aghacla. An all-Duchas exact Thomas McKenna search returns three non-target controls outside this lane, proving the search can return the exact name but adding no Tydavnet/Jane/Kerry bridge. A direct Logainm search for Aghaclogha returned a security-verification page, so the exact official Aghaclogha lookup still needs manual/browser or local-book access. This adds local McKenna presence and no-result boundaries only; it gives no Thomas baptism, parents, original Patrick stone, or Jane/Kerry bridge.

Monaghan Library / Spydus / HathiTrust local-source continuation, 16 June 2026: the Tydavnet evidence note now adds saved Monaghan County Libraries and Spydus catalogue pages. The Clones local-studies collection documents RC Clogher records to 1880 on microfilm, Church of Ireland records for Tydavnet on CD-ROM, Grand Jury Presentments 1822-1834, Outrage Papers 1832-1852, newspapers, maps, and local-history books. Catalogue targets now include Rev. J.E. McKenna, Clogher Parochial Records - Monaghan Volume 1 (1920), with Tedavnet/Tydavnet pp. 313-348 and The MacKennas of Aghananimy pp. 106-109; Gilsenan/Eileen McKenna, Townlands of Tydavnet Parish (2011); Tydavnet Parish Annuals 1994/1996; and Local History Studies from The Border Counties of South Ulster with an Annagally/Tydavnet essay. Aghacla, Aghaclogha, exact Tydavnet Old Graveyard, and Tydavnet Parish Annual 2000 catalogue searches returned no record. Internet Archive/Open Library exact title searches did not locate a digitized Clogher volume, but HathiTrust catalogue/API metadata now confirms Diocese of Clogher: parochial records, Monaghan volume 1 (uc1.b3387636) and volume 2 (uc1.b3387637) as Full view. HathiTrust page/OCR retrieval was blocked locally, but the matching Google Books route has now read the target Tedavnet and Aghananimy pages. The local-library route remains useful for cleaner page images, Townlands of Tydavnet Parish, parish annuals, and local graveyard/index material; it does not prove Thomas's baptism, parents, or relationship to Patrick of Aghacla.

PRONI church-records continuation, 16 June 2026: the Tydavnet evidence note now adds the official PRONI Guide to Church Records PDF and the PRONI Church Records Available as Digital Copies in PRONI list. PRONI confirms Tydavnet Church of Ireland baptisms 1822-1898, marriages 1822-1950, and burials 1822-1906 at MIC1/246; local-custody Tydavnet C.I. baptisms 1898-, undated vestry minute books, and preachers' books 1858-; Ballyalbany / 2nd Monaghan Presbyterian baptisms 1802-1948 and marriages from 1807 at MIC1P/146; Tydavnet Roman Catholic baptisms 1835-1881 and marriages 1825-1865, 1876-1881 at MIC1D/2, 16-17; and Scotstown Presbyterian baptisms 1855-1963 at MIC1P/203. Searches in PRONI's digital-copy list found no Tydavnet/Tedavnet/Tydavanet/Scotstown/Ballyalbany or those exact PRONI references, while the same list does expose other Monaghan digital holdings such as Cahans Presbyterian 1767, Tullycorbet C.I. 1796, and Drumsnatt C.I. 1796. This is an official repository boundary, not a baptism: no standard PRONI Tydavnet holding reaches c.1770-1772.

Tydavnet C.I. vestry guardrail, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-coi-vestry-local-custody-and-tyholland-guardrail-2026-06-17.html now isolates the PRONI local-custody issue. Tydavnet C.I. has local-custody vestry minute books, but PRONI gives their dates as unknown; the tempting vestry minutes, 1712- line belongs to the next entry, Tyholland / Tehallen, not to Tydavnet. Fresh public searches for Tydavnet vestry/McKenna combinations exposed no transcript, image, snippet, or index hit naming Thomas, Patrick of Aghacla, or Thomas's parents. This keeps the vestry lane alive as a direct local-custody question, but it is not baptism or parent proof.

PRONI adjacent digital-copy extraction, 16 June 2026: the same Tydavnet evidence note now extracts the exact adjacent digital-copy lines. Cahans Presbyterian Church, Co. Monaghan (CR3/25) exposes baptisms 1767-1843, making it the only adjacent digital register currently found that crosses Thomas's 1770-1772 window. Tullycorbet C.I. (MIC1/153/1) exposes combined baptisms/marriages/burials 1796-1831, and Drumsnatt C.I. (MIC1/347/1) exposes combined baptisms/burials 1796-1826 plus combined baptisms/marriages/banns/burials 1825-1839. Donagh C.I. remains guide-listed at MIC1/127 / DIO/2/9/477, but it was not found in the saved 2025 digital-copy list. Additional public-web searches for CR3/25, MIC1P/172, Cahans, Donagh, Drumsnat, Tullycorbet, and McKenna/M'Kenna variants surfaced no public transcript naming Thomas, Patrick, or parents. This upgrades the access map only: Cahans is a real adjacent digital target, not Tydavnet baptism proof unless its images or indexes name a bridge.

PRONI eCatalogue exact-reference continuation, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/proni-ecatalogue-exact-reference-access-check-2026-06-16.html now preserves the live PRONI eCatalogue reference search. Exact searches confirm MIC1/246, MIC1D/2, MIC1D/16, MIC1D/17, MIC1P/146, and MIC1P/203, plus adjacent CR3/25, MIC1P/172, MIC1/127, DIO/2/9/477, MIC1/347, MIC1/153, and CR1/44. The Tydavnet/Tedavnet rows remain too late for a c.1770-1772 baptism, the result-grid Digital Record column was blank for every exact-reference result checked, and no PRONI eCatalogue row names Thomas's baptism or parents. The detail pages expose PRONI's copyright declaration and I Agree control, which was not accepted in the automated pass.

PRONI Cahans child-reference correction, 16 June 2026: raw/evidence/proni-cahans-cr3-25a4-child-reference-boundary-2026-06-16.html now preserves the corrected Cahans child inventory. The earlier slashless CR3/25A/4 handle failed, but a live PRONI eCatalogue wildcard search for CR3/25* exposed CR3/25/A/4, an open 1752-1844 typescript personal-name index to the Cahans baptism registers and session minute book; CR3/25/A/1, the 1767-1792 baptism-register copy marked Open - On-Site Only; and CR3/25/B/2, the 1767-1836 session book. Live PRONI metadata searches for McKenna/Kenna variants under CR3/25* returned no catalogue rows, so the index/register contents still need PRONI/PHSI/on-site access. Cahans remains adjacent Presbyterian evidence only; it is not Tydavnet baptism or parent proof unless a record names Thomas, a parent, residence, or another relationship bridge.

PRONI live detail recheck, 16 June 2026: the Cahans note now also records a same-day live eCatNI_IE detail-page recheck of CR3/25/A/1, CR3/25/A/4, and CR3/25/B/2. It confirms that the 1767-1792 baptism-register copy (A/1) is explicitly On-Site Only, while the 1752-1844 personal-name index (A/4) and the 1767-1836 session book (B/2) have blank Digital Record fields. No remote image, transcript, download, or hidden View route surfaced in the public PRONI session; this leaves Cahans as the strongest adjacent early lookup route, but still not a viewed Thomas baptism or parent record.

Findmypast/PHSI access-boundary continuation, 16 June 2026: the Tydavnet evidence note now records that TNA Discovery points WO 97/189/104 to Findmypast's British Army Service Records partner route, while unauthenticated access redirected to login/sign-up; the full image remains unviewed and is not parent proof. PHSI's Ballyalbany Presbyterian Church Seat List 1804 page is also Society-member gated. Fresh PHSI public-page checks confirm Ballyalbany: Second Monaghan, Cahans, and Scotstown as County Monaghan Presbyterian congregations in PHSI's congregation database, but PHSI states that the congregation-history database does not contain birth/baptism, marriage, death, or burial details, and its Monaghan congregational-record guide is member-gated. These are access routes and congregation controls only, not baptism/parent evidence, unless a viewed record names a bridge to Tydavnet parents, Thomas/Jane, Kerry/Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, Thurles, Wexford/Bantry, or the 5 May 1835 death.

PHSI congregational-record guide continuation, 16 June 2026: the live recheck note now adds PHSI's public Guide to Congregational Records as a proof-route control. The guide explains that Presbyterian baptism registers may name child, father, usually mother, and location; session records may sometimes include baptisms or marriages; and congregational census/communicant-style lists may expose townland/family clusters. It also identifies a newly useful Ballyalbany early source: a 1751 call to Rev. Thomas Clark by the Presbyterians of Ballyalbany, containing 160+ names, published in S. Lyle Orr and Alex Haslett, Historical Sketch of Ballyalbany Presbyterian Church (1940), pp. 10-12. OpenLibrary confirms work OL13484757W and edition OL21864796M, subtitle Formerly Second Monaghan. Formerly Belanalbany. Formerly New Monaghan Secession Presbyterian Church. (1750-1940)., 231 pages, but no ebook/full-text scan. Public searches found no copy or McKenna hit. This is an adjacent family-cluster route before Thomas's likely birth window, not a baptism or parent proof unless the list names a McKenna/Kenna bridge.

Grenham / FamilySearch / Internet Archive continuation, 16 June 2026: the Tydavnet evidence note now adds Grenham's Church of Ireland and Presbyterian catalogue tables as an independent coverage check. Grenham confirms Tydavnet C.I. still begins in 1822, Monaghan (2nd) / Ballyalbany Presbyterian begins in 1802, Scotstown Presbyterian begins in 1855, and the adjacent Cahans Presbyterian lane crosses the target window with PRONI MIC.1P/172; C.R.3/25 plus LDS/FamilySearch film 1279239 item 16. Direct FamilySearch catalogue requests for Tydavnet/Tedavnet/Ballyalbany/Cahans were blocked by 403/Incapsula, so that route remains interactive/account-gated. Internet Archive full-text API checks now return numFound: 0 for exact/variant OCR searches covering Thomas McKenna + Tydavnet/Tedavnet, Patrick McKenna + Aghacla, broad Tydavnet/Tedavnet/Tydavanet + McKenna, Cahans + McKenna/Kenna, Ballyalbany/Belanalbany + McKenna/Kenna, Aghacla/Aghaclogha + McKenna, and the exact Ballyalbany church-history title. This sharpens the access map only; it is not Thomas baptism or parent proof.

RootsIreland Monaghan column correction, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/rootsireland-monaghan-cahans-column-correction-2026-06-17.html now preserves the logged-out RootsIreland source-table correction. The table still shows direct Tydavnet/Tedavnet coverage too late for Thomas's likely baptism: Tedavnet R.C. baptisms 1835-1884, Tedavnet/Ballinode C.I. baptisms 1845-1930, and no early Tedavnet/Scotstown Presbyterian baptism dates. The important correction is that Tullycorbet (Cahans) has a blank Baptisms cell and 1767-1787 / 1845-1912 in the Marriages column. Earlier language calling this "Cahans Presbyterian baptisms 1767-1787" was a column-reading error. RootsIreland remains useful for account-level Monaghan searches, early Cahans/Ballyalbany marriage checks, and substitute indexes, but the Cahans baptism route remains PRONI/PHSI/FamilySearch access unless an account-level RootsIreland result proves separate baptism coverage. This is not a found baptism or parent record.

Adjacent PRONI register-ring continuation, 16 June 2026: the Tydavnet evidence note now distinguishes nearby register targets from actual Tydavnet proof. Donagh C.I. has isolated 1736 entries, a 1775 poor list, and vestry minutes from 1731; Cahans Presbyterian has baptisms 1751-1759 and 1767-1971 plus session minutes from 1751; Drumsnat and Tullycorbet C.I. begin in 1796 and appear in PRONI's digital-copy list. These create precise PRONI/local-library lookup targets, but none is a Tydavnet baptism record. Fresh public-web searches for Ballyalbany/2nd Monaghan/Cahans/Drumsnat/Donagh/Tydavnet plus McKenna terms surfaced no public transcript naming Thomas or parents. The Castleblayney/Monaghan Methodist lane is corrected to 1838-1842 and 1874-1926, so it is not an early-1770s route.

Tydavnet live source recheck continuation, corrected 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-live-source-recheck-continuation-2026-06-16.html preserves the exact live-source recheck, and the new RootsIreland correction above narrows its source map. Patrick McKenna of Aghacla, 1783, plot 126 remains publicly documented through IGP, and the IGP table's McKenna-row inventory shows no Thomas row or relationship wording. The RootsIreland table supports early Cahans marriage account-search work, not logged-out baptism coverage; no Thomas baptism, parent naming, original plot-126 stone close-up, or relationship bridge surfaced. The next proof-producing actions remain the full Kabristan entry/publication, RootsIreland/Monaghan Genealogy account search of early Cahans/Ballyalbany marriages and substitutes, and PRONI/PHSI/FamilySearch access to Cahans CR3/25/A/4, CR3/25/A/1, and CR3/25/B/2.

Tydavnet public-web fresh check, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-public-web-fresh-check-2026-06-17.html preserves a new exact-query pass for Thomas/Tydavnet baptism and Patrick/Aghacla graveyard terms. The live IGP page still publicly documents MCKENNA Patrick of Aghacla, 1783, plot 126, with no Thomas row or relationship wording. The live Kabristan free page remains a guardrail/order route: visible Tydavnet McKENNA rows include Ann, James, Peter, Terence, and William, while visible McKENNA Patrick rows are Errigal/Donagh/Donaghmoyne controls and McKENNA Thomas of Anaghervy is Clones. The live RootsIreland check confirms the corrected source map above. Result: no new Thomas baptism, parent record, original Patrick stone close-up, or Patrick relationship bridge.

Tydavnet PHSI / DIPPAM / Leslie variant continuation, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-phsi-dippam-leslie-variant-continuation-2026-06-17.html now preserves a final narrow public-access pass over PHSI spelling variants, the DIPPAM Cahans Exodus transcript handle, and saved Leslie-estate Wayback snapshots. PHSI public API searches for Kenna, M'Kenna, MacKenna, Kinna, M Kenna, Mc Kenna, Tydavnet Kenna, and Cahans Kenna exposed only late/general pages, zero Tydavnet Kenna hits, and one Cahans Kenna hit to the already-known member-gated 1879 Witness death index. The DIPPAM records/21064.transcript Cahans Exodus route returned/saved only a 500 server-error page. The saved Ancestor Network / Leslie estate Monaghan 1751 tenant snapshots contain no target McKenna/Kenna/Tydavnet/Aghacla/Cahans/Ballyalbany terms. Result: no Thomas baptism, parent proof, Patrick relationship wording, or Tydavnet McKenna bridge.

Monaghan Library ancestors-guide continuation, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/monaghan-library-ancestors-guide-tydavnet-cahans-graveyard-continuation-2026-06-17.html now preserves the official 2024 Monaghan County Library guide PDF and text extraction. The guide does not name Thomas McKenna, Patrick McKenna of Aghacla, Aghacla, or Aghaclogha, but it independently confirms the direct Tydavnet register boundary: Roman Catholic Tydavnet baptisms begin 1835, and Church of Ireland Tydavnet baptisms/marriages begin 1822. It also strengthens the adjacent early-register route by listing Ballybay (Cahans) Presbyterian baptisms/marriages from 1752 and Tullycorbet/Cahans baptisms from 1751, while keeping that as a source-access route rather than a public RootsIreland result. Most importantly for the graveyard task, it identifies Tydavnet gravestone inscriptions as a Clogher Record 1954 source at Monaghan Library, making Clogher Record 1954 plus the full Kabristan record/PDF the next exact Patrick-of-Aghacla checks. Result: no baptism/parent proof, but a sharper local-library source target.

Clogher Record 1954 Tydavnet Old Cemetery continuation, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/clogher-record-1954-tydavnet-old-cemetery-access-continuation-2026-06-17.html resolves the Monaghan Library graveyard clue to the exact article: Bernard O'Daly, "Tydavnet Old Cemetery," Clogher Record, vol. 1, no. 2 (1954), pp. 43-55, DOI 10.2307/27695404. Crossref's Clogher Record/Tydavnet query found this 1954 article plus later Tydavnet context articles; JSTOR citation export confirms pp. 43-55. Unpaywall reports the article is closed with no repository copy, JSTOR stable/PDF probes returned HTTP 403, and the Clogher Historical Society public store lists issues only down to 1978. This was originally an article-access request for Patrick McKenna of Aghacla and Tydavnet McKenna/Kenna/Kenan/Keran inscriptions; the user-text breakthrough below supersedes the access status but not the proof caution.

Clogher Record 1954 JSTOR-reader/public-copy recheck, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/clogher-record-1954-jstor-reader-public-copy-recheck-2026-06-17.html preserves the public-reader and catalogue-copy follow-up. The public reader confirms Tydavnet Old Cemetery, Bernard O'Daly, Clogher Record, vol. 1, no. 2 (1954), pp. 43-55, DOI 10.2307/27695404, and shows the page-scan endpoint label, but a direct page-scan request returned HTTP 403. Internet Archive and OpenLibrary exact-title searches returned 0 results; OpenLibrary exact Clogher Record 1954 returned 0; broader archive searches exposed no 1954 open scan; Google Books returned HTTP 429; and HathiTrust returned a browser challenge. This public-copy boundary is now superseded for article-text access by the user-supplied text review below; it remains useful as a record of public repository access limits.

Clogher Record 1954 user-text breakthrough, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/clogher-record-1954-tydavnet-old-cemetery-user-text-mckenna-extract-2026-06-17.html now preserves the newly supplied text of Bernard O'Daly's "Tydavnet Old Cemetery" article, with the copied source text at raw/evidence/clogher-record-1954-tydavnet-old-cemetery-user-pasted-text-2026-06-17.txt. This removes the article-access gap and confirms a wider Tydavnet Old Cemetery McKenna cluster, including Terence McKenna of Knockballyroney, Peter McKenna, John McKenna to his father William, Ross McKenna of Greaugh, Hugh McKenna of Mullahinchago, Loughlin McKenna to his son James, Terence McKenna of Knockbelirony, Bryan McKenna to his daughter Ann, James McKenna of Mullockan, and later McKenna spouse/family entries. It still does not name Thomas McKenna, does not contain Aghacla/Aghaclogha, does not independently confirm IGP Patrick McKenna of Aghacla, 1783, plot 126, and gives no Thomas baptism, parents, Jane/Foulkes, or Patrick-to-Thomas relationship. Numbering caution: O'Daly's article item 126 is Michael McCarron, not Patrick McKenna, so O'Daly's sequential inscription numbers must not be mapped onto the IGP plot number 126.

Tydavnet source API / FamilySearch / PHSI recheck, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-source-api-familysearch-phsi-recheck-2026-06-17.html now preserves a machine-endpoint and public-reader pass. HathiTrust API probes for Clogher Record returned browser-challenge pages, Crossref gives citation metadata only for O'Daly's 1954 article, and Unpaywall still reports the article closed with no repository copy. FamilySearch public-reader routes for film 1279239, Cahans + Monaghan, and Tydavnet + Monaghan all returned sign-in pages. PHSI public API searches for exact CR3/25, MIC1P/172, and Cahans Presbyterian Church returned empty arrays; Thomas Clark Ballyalbany returned only the already-known Guide to Congregational Records page. Result: no readable register/index content, no Thomas baptism/parents, and no Patrick relationship bridge.

Clogher Record public-copy and Aghaclogha tithe-variant continuation, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-clogher-record-public-copy-and-aghaclogha-tithe-variant-continuation-2026-06-17.html now preserves the fresh public-copy/source-boundary pass. Exact public searches for the 1954 "Tydavnet Old Cemetery" article, the 1955 "Place Names of The Barony of Monaghan" article, McKenna, Patrick, Aghacla, and DOI/title combinations exposed no open article text, snippet, or page image; a direct JSTOR page-scan probe for 27695404 returned HTTP 403. The same note adds six official NAI Tithe Applotment Books townland-variant pages for Aghaclogh, Aghacloch, Aghaclough, Aghaclocha, Aghclogha, and Aghaclo in Tedavnet, all No Results. This narrows the public tithe route but does not disprove the IGP Patrick row. No Thomas baptism, parent proof, original Patrick stone image, or Patrick relationship bridge surfaced.

Clogher / Monaghan Library access-request packet, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/tydavnet-clogher-monaghan-library-access-request-packet-2026-06-17.html now turns the exact access boundary into copy-ready lookup text. It preserves the Clogher Historical Society route for Bernard O'Daly's "Tydavnet Old Cemetery," Clogher Record, vol. 1, no. 2 (1954), pp. 43-55, DOI 10.2307/27695404, including the query-charge/contact path, and the Monaghan County Library / Clones local-history route for Clogher Record 1954, Townlands of Tydavnet Parish, Tydavnet local-register/substitute sources, and Cahans/Tullycorbet/Ballybay Presbyterian access. It also restates the PRONI/PHSI/FamilySearch handles CR3/25/A/4, CR3/25/A/1, CR3/25/B/2, MIC.1P/172, and FamilySearch film 1279239 item 16. This is still not proof; it is the clean retrieval packet for the only remaining proof-bearing sources now identified.

Clogher Society bookshop availability boundary, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/clogher-society-bookshop-townlands-availability-boundary-2026-06-17.html now preserves the current Clogher Historical Society public-shop check. The Books page lists Townlands of Tydavnet Parish but marks it Currently unavailable; the Publications page lists Clogher Record back issues only down to 1978, so the needed 1954 Tydavnet Old Cemetery issue is not available through that public shop list. This does not add proof; it narrows the practical access route back to Monaghan Library, Clogher Society queries, JSTOR/institutional access, Kabristan, PRONI/PHSI, or FamilySearch/local access.

IrishStones Tydavnet grave-slab visual check, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/irishstones-tydavnet-grave-slab-visual-check-2026-06-17.html now preserves the separate IrishStones Tydavnet photo set. All 23 full-size images were downloaded and contact-sheeted. Image 14 adds a real visual McKenna graveyard-presence control, Ross/Rofs McKenna, 1818, but it is not Thomas and not Patrick of Aghacla. Image 15 is a non-McKenna Patrick Treanel/Treanor 1755 control, and image 16 is a fuzzy Patrick 1727 control with no proved McKenna/Aghacla connection. The full-set audit found no additional McKenna or target Patrick evidence. Result: no Thomas baptism, no parent proof, no Patrick-of-Aghacla stone image, and no relationship bridge; the remaining graveyard proof targets are still the full Kabristan entry/PDF and Bernard O'Daly's 1954 Clogher Record article.

Megalithic Ireland Tydavnet graveyard context control, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/megalithicireland-tydavnet-graveyard-context-control-2026-06-17.html now preserves a direct-fetch check of the public Megalithic Ireland Tydavnet Graveyard page. The page has useful decorated 17th/18th-century stone context and cites McCormack & McCormick's "A Group of Tradesmen's Headstones (With Notes on Their Trades And Tools)," Clogher Record, vol. 10, no. 1 (1979), pp. 12-22, JSTOR stable id 27695784, but its text has no McKenna/Kenna, Patrick, Aghacla/Aghaclogha, Thomas, baptism, parent, or relationship hit. Result: context/control only; the proof route remains IGP, full Kabristan, O'Daly 1954, Smyth 1955, and Townlands of Tydavnet Parish.

Rushe / Internet Archive Monaghan-history continuation, 17 June 2026: raw/evidence/rushe-historical-sketches-tydavnet-mckenna-1798-boundary-2026-06-17.html now preserves two Internet Archive OCR copies of Denis Carolan Rushe's 1895 Historical Sketches of Monaghan plus local text searches for Tydavnet/Tedavnet, Thomas/Patrick McKenna variants, Aghacla/Aghaclogha, Cahans, Ballyalbany, and old-graveyard wording. Rushe gives a useful 1798 Tydavnet United Irishmen arms-lifting incident, but the named Tydavnet defendants are M'Cluskey, Lappin, M'Cusker, M'Elroy, and Sherry families, not McKenna/Kenna. Rushe also names other Monaghan M'Kenna men in 1797-1798 contexts, including Patrick, William, Terence, James, Samuel, and Owen forms, but none is Thomas and none bridges to Tydavnet parents, Jane/Foulkes, Kerry, Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, Thurles, Wexford/Bantry, or the 5 May 1835 death. Result: no Thomas baptism, no parent proof, and no Patrick-of-Aghacla relationship wording.

A CSO/RP and Registry of Deeds Thurles / Tipperary control pass is now saved in raw/evidence/csorp-registry-thurles-tipperary-control-pass-2026-06-11.html. The CSO/RP catalogue returned zero results for the tested McKenna/Kenna/Kinna/Gna/Gnaw and Foulkes/Fowke/Foulke/Ffoulkes/Folkes/Fowkes/Fulkes variants paired with Thurles and with Tipperary. The Registry of Deeds layer has older Cashel/Clonmel Kenna and south-Tipperary Foulkes controls, including a Thomas Kenna farmer at Monkstown [Clonmel] in a 1780 deed, but no Thurles, Jane, McKenna relationship, Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, Monaghan, Wexford, or 1835-death bridge.

A Jane-specific NAI diocesan-wills control is now saved in raw/evidence/nai-dw-jane-fowke-cloyne-cork-1796-control-2026-06-11.html. It finds one official Jane Fowke row in the Cloyne/Cork wills index, event year 1796, with a manuscript image crop reading Fowke | Jane | 1796. This is useful Irish Fowke/Foulkes same-name evidence, but not Jane Ffoulkes McKenna proof: the row has no residence, spouse, McKenna/Kenna/Gna/Gnaw bridge, Kerry/Thurles/Ballyduhig link, or 1840-death link.

A Thurles Church of Ireland and tithe-cluster status note is now saved in raw/evidence/thurles-church-of-ireland-and-tithe-cluster-status-2026-06-11.md and .html. The current Church of Ireland parish-register list identifies Thurles, Diocese of Cashel, County Tipperary, with baptisms 1713-1877, marriages 1715-1845, and burials 1713-1877, so the Protestant / Church of Ireland route survives across the 1798 window and remains the next best Jane/Foulkes test. A follow-up access/request note at raw/evidence/thurles-coi-register-access-request-2026-06-11.html turns that route into exact lookup targets: marriages 1797-1805, Jane/Foulkes baptisms 1770-1785, child baptisms 1798-1821, burials, and vestry/warden material for McKenna/Kenna/Gna/Gnaw and Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke variants. A 12 Jun 2026 public-access recheck at raw/evidence/thurles-coi-public-access-recheck-2026-06-12.html adds that the Church of Ireland / RCB Library Anglican Record Project public page did not expose a Thurles/Tipperary/Cashel online transcript and that fresh public Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke surname-web searches against Thurles/Rahelty/Shyane/Adnith did not surface a bridge; therefore this remains an RCB Library / local-custody lookup problem, not a simple public-web search. The same status note preserves the three official 1833 NAI Thurles tithe controls together: Thos Kenna at Castle Meadow, Michl Kenna at Killinan, and Philip Kinna at Obriensland or Gortna Sogarth.

A RootsIreland North Tipperary source-coverage note is now saved in raw/evidence/rootsireland-tipperary-north-thurles-source-coverage-2026-06-11.html, with the source page preserved at rootsireland-tipperary-north-online-sources-2026-06-11.html and the logged-out substitute-search shell at rootsireland-tipperary-north-census-substitutes-search-shell-2026-06-11.html. It confirms online Thurles Roman Catholic baptisms and marriages from 1795-1900, lists North Tipperary tithes, street directories, and Poor Law Rate Books for Nenagh and Thurles, but does not expose a standalone target-period Thurles Church of Ireland row in the RootsIreland North Tipperary online source table. That makes the next Jane/Foulkes test an RCB Library / local-custody Church of Ireland register access problem, not another simple RootsIreland Catholic-register pass.

A near-Thurles church/register map is now saved in raw/evidence/thurles-area-church-register-map-2026-06-12.html. It answers the "all churches near Thurles" question by treating Thurles as a historical register ring, not only a town church. Clear reading: the strongest remaining Jane/Foulkes lane is still Thurles Church of Ireland, widened to Rahelty, Shyane, and Adnith; the best nearby Roman Catholic targets are Loughmore and Castleiny, Moycarkey, Drom and Inch, Moyne and Templetuohy, Templemore, and Gortnahoe/Glengoole. The pass saves official NLI inventory pages for those nearby Catholic parishes and explains which ones start early enough to test the 1798 story window. Loughmore/Castleiney early marriages and baptisms/sponsors are now checked; Moycarkey public 1801-1809 baptisms/sponsors are now checked; Gortnahoe/Glengoole early 1805-1811 baptisms/marriages are now checked; Templemore/Clonmore early 1807-1812 baptisms/marriages are now checked; Moyne/Templetuohy early 1804-1813 marriages/baptisms are now checked; Boherlahan/Dualla public NLI marriages from May 1810-Nov. 1821 plus target baptism windows in 1810, 1816, and 1820-1821 are now partly checked with no target bridge; and Killenaule/Moyglass public NLI baptisms from Nov. 1797-Jan. 1802 are checked with no target bridge while the Bru Boru / RootsIreland marriage layer 1742-1801 remains newly open. Drom/Inch remains open and is now strengthened by the Annefield/Inch tenant-control pass, which found official Thos Kinna and Jno Kinna tithe rows plus a post-1835 John Kenna rate-book control. No near-Thurles church register has yet produced a Thomas/Jane bridge.

A non-Catholic near-Thurles coverage note is now saved in raw/evidence/near-thurles-non-catholic-register-coverage-2026-06-12.html. It checks the saved RootsIreland North Tipperary Church of Ireland and Methodist source tables. The 13 Jun. 2026 broader correction at raw/evidence/near-thurles-official-coi-register-ring-correction-2026-06-13.html shows that the public RootsIreland table is too conservative for nearby Church of Ireland coverage: the official Church of Ireland parish-register list gives target-window registers for Holy Cross, Borrisoleigh / Glankeen / Drom, and Templetuohy. Therefore the live Protestant order is now Thurles Church of Ireland / Rahelty / Shyane / Adnith first, followed by Holy Cross COI, Borrisoleigh / Glankeen / Drom COI, and Templetuohy COI as access-needed target-window lanes. Templemore and Moyne COI remain later child/sponsor controls.

A 13 June 2026 NAI Valuation Office Books follow-up is now saved in raw/evidence/nai-vob-thomas-kenna-ballydavid-ballymurreen-borrisoleigh-control-2026-06-13.html, with the official PDF, rendered page image, and row crop visible. It documents an official NAI index row for Thomas Kenna, Ballydavid, indexed under Ballymurreen, County Tipperary, House Book, valuation date 16 Oct. 1847. This is not Thomas McKenna 1772-1835 because it is twelve years after the 5 May 1835 death date. It is a useful post-1835 same-name control inside the reopened Borrisoleigh / Glankeen / Drom / Ballymureen ring and should be used as a reason to keep that church/vestry lane active, not as a merge.

A Tipperary Studies rate-book follow-up is now saved in raw/evidence/tipperary-studies-ballymoreen-borrisoleigh-littleton-rate-book-control-2026-06-13.html, with the Ballymoreen 1846, Borrisoleigh 1847, and Littleton 1850 item pages, PDFs, rendered page folders, and Vision OCR TSVs preserved. It follows the Ballydavid / Ballymurreen / Borrisoleigh control lane directly. The Littleton 1850 book contains a Ballydavid section; pages 11-14 were visually checked and no Kenna/McKenna target was seen. Borrisoleigh OCR Kenn- hits were visually checked and resolve as Kennedy/Kennane/locality readings rather than a clean Thomas Kenna bridge. This is a negative/control result over post-1835 rate books, not a disproof of the family tradition and not a proof document for elder Thomas, Jane, or son Thomas.

A live near-Thurles church lookup packet is now saved in raw/evidence/near-thurles-live-church-lookup-packet-2026-06-12.html. It turns the church-ring map into exact next archive/search requests. Current order: Thurles Church of Ireland / Rahelty / Shyane / Adnith first, then Holy Cross COI, Borrisoleigh / Glankeen / Drom COI, and Templetuohy COI through RCB Library / local-custody / register-copy access, followed by Drom and Inch RC through RootsIreland / North Tipperary Genealogy Centre access, the Moycarkey RC marriage gap, and Killenaule/Moyglass RC marriage access through South Tipperary / Bru Boru / RootsIreland. It also lists the exact McKenna/Kenna/Kinna/Gna/Gnaw and Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke variants to use. Boherlahan/Dualla is now a lower-priority, partly checked south-edge lane unless a new clue points south/southwest of Thurles.

South Tipperary source-coverage update, 20 June 2026: raw/evidence/rootsireland-tipperary-south-updated-source-coverage-2026-06-20.html now incorporates the updated County Tipperary (South) online-source list. It does not add a Thomas/Jane record, but it changes the action order: Killenaule/Moyglass RC remains the strongest South Tipperary access lane, Cahir RC is promoted because baptisms 1776-1793 and marriages 1776-1880 cross the Jane/Foulkes and Thomas/Jane windows, then Carrick-on-Suir, Clogheen, and Cappawhite follow for narrower marriage, baptism, or later-control windows. The late South Tipperary Church of Ireland / Presbyterian / Methodist / civil rows are mostly post-1845 or post-1864 controls and do not replace the earlier Thurles-area Church of Ireland access lane.

Plain answer to "all the churches near Thurles": the search is no longer one Thurles church. It is a ring of register jurisdictions. The live proof-producing lanes are Thurles Church of Ireland / Rahelty / Shyane / Adnith, Holy Cross Church of Ireland, Borrisoleigh / Glankeen / Drom Church of Ireland, Templetuohy Church of Ireland, Drom and Inch RC, the Moycarkey RC marriage gap, and Killenaule/Moyglass RC marriage-access lane. The other nearby churches are still listed below, but they are now either checked negative for the earliest useful public window or too late for a 1798 Thomas/Jane marriage unless a new clue points there.

A Killenaule and Moyglass near-Thurles register-status note is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-killenaule-moyglass-near-thurles-register-status-2026-06-12.html. It adds a newly identified south/southeast church lane. The saved South Tipperary / Bru Boru table lists Killenaule RC marriages 1742-1801, which is target-period coverage, but the public NLI parish page exposes the early register as baptisms only. Public NLI baptism pages 364-399, roughly Nov. 1797-Jan. 1802, were first-pass checked with no Thomas/Jane/Foulkes/McKenna bridge and no younger Thomas baptism. Killenaule is therefore not a proof and not closed; the target marriage test needs RootsIreland / Bru Boru / archive access.

A 13 June 2026 Killenaule fourth-lane chase is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-killenaule-moyglass-fourth-lane-chase-2026-06-13.html. This pass explains the RootsIreland/NLI mismatch more precisely. NLI page 007 has an old cover label reading "Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages" for Killenaule 1742-1801, but page 005 gives the formal title LIBER BAPTISMORUM, and sampled internal public NLI pages still use baptismal formatting rather than marriage entries. Sampled pages include opening pages, internal book boundaries, the 1778 Jane-age window, and late 1796-Nov. 1797 lead-in pages before the already checked 1797-1802 baptism run. No Thomas/Jane/Foulkes/McKenna bridge or separate marriage section was seen. The saved logged-out RootsIreland South Tipperary marriage-search page returns only a login form, so the claimed Killenaule 1742-1801 marriage layer still needs RootsIreland / Bru Boru account access or direct archive lookup.

A Drom-Inch / Annefield public-web control is now saved in raw/evidence/drom-inch-annefield-public-web-control-2026-06-12.html. It records the Annefield/Annfield, Drom-Inch, Kinna/Kenna/McKenna public-web and Tipperary Studies checks. Result: no public Thomas/Jane/son-Thomas bridge surfaced; Drom-Inch remains high priority because the useful 1807/1809 register layer appears to require RootsIreland / North Tipperary Genealogy Centre / archive access.

A 13 June 2026 Drom-Inch access chase is now saved in raw/evidence/drom-inch-access-chase-2026-06-13.html. It captures the current RootsIreland North Tipperary source table showing Drom-Inch RC baptisms 1809-1900 and marriages 1807-1880, compares it with the current public NLI Drom and Inch page showing only 1827+ public registers, and preserves logged-out RootsIreland North Tipperary search shells for marriage, baptism, burial/death, gravestone, Griffith, and census substitutes. This sharpens Drom-Inch as an access/centre-lookup lane, not proof: no Thomas/Jane/son-Thomas bridge surfaced.

A near-Thurles south-edge church-coverage note is now saved in raw/evidence/near-thurles-south-edge-church-gap-2026-06-12.html. It prevents overclaiming the "all churches near Thurles" map and updates the south edge after capturing the South Tipperary / Bru Boru RootsIreland source table and the public NLI route. Boherlahan & Dualla RC is verified as baptisms 1810-1900 and marriages 1810-1900 in the Bru Boru table, and as NLI parish 0247 / register vtls000632659 with baptisms from 20 Apr. 1810 and marriages from 16 May 1810. Marriage pages 141-180, May 1810-Nov. 1821, plus target baptism windows in 1810, 1816, and 1820-1821 were first-pass checked with no Thomas/Jane/Foulkes/McKenna bridge and no younger Thomas baptism. Unreviewed baptism pages remain lower-priority controls, so this is a partial negative, not a full closure.

A Loughmore and Castleiny near-Thurles marriage-register pass is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-loughmore-castleiney-1798-1806-marriage-register-pass-2026-06-12.html. It checks NLI register vtls000632683, microfilm 02490 / 03, marriage pages 344-360 covering 16 Apr. 1798 through Jan. 1806. No Thomas McKenna/Kenna/Kinna/MacKenna/Gna/Gnaw + Jane/Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke marriage, no Jane/Foulkes target, and no Kenna/Kinna/McKenna surname-control entry was seen. A non-target Thomas Kelly of Thurles entry in Oct. 1805 shows the register could identify a Thurles person when relevant, but it is not the target Thomas.

A Loughmore and Castleiny baptism/sponsor pass is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-loughmore-castleiney-1798-1806-baptism-sponsor-pass-2026-06-12.html. It checks NLI register vtls000632683, microfilm 02490 / 03, baptism pages 004-057 covering 25 Mar. 1798 through Jan. 1806. No Thomas McKenna/Kenna/Kinna/MacKenna/Gna/Gnaw parent or sponsor, no Jane/Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke target, and no son Thomas baptism was found. The pass does find local Kenna-style controls in the same near-Thurles parish: possible Philip Renna/Kenna sponsor in Dec. 1802, Margaret Kenna sponsor in Jan. 1804, and Mary Kenna as mother of Bridget Cormick/Cornick on 2 Mar. 1805. These prove the surname lane is alive locally, but they do not bridge to Thomas/Jane/Ballyduhig/Kilshenane.

A Moycarkey baptism/sponsor pass is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-moycarkey-vtls000632663-1801-1809-baptism-sponsor-pass-2026-06-12.html. It checks NLI register vtls000632663, microfilm 02488 / 04, baptism pages 003-065 covering Jan. 1801 through Oct. 1809. No Thomas McKenna/Kenna/Kinna/MacKenna/Gna/Gnaw parent or sponsor, no Jane/Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke target, no son Thomas baptism, and no clean Kenna/Kinna/McKenna surname-control entry was found. This weakens the straightforward Moycarkey public baptism/sponsor route for Thomas/Jane or son Thomas, but it does not close Moycarkey because the public NLI marriage images have a gap over 1797-1809.

A 13 June 2026 Moycarkey pre-gap control is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-moycarkey-vtls000632662-1793-1801-pregap-control-2026-06-13.html. It downloads all 19 public NLI images for register vtls000632662, covering baptisms 1793-1796, baptisms Jan. 1800-Jan. 1801, and marriages Oct. 1793-Oct. 1796. No target name was seen on first visual review. The current RootsIreland table also explicitly repeats the Moycarkey marriage gap over 1797-1809, so this lane is now weaker unless a separate local/archival source for that gap is identified.

A Gortnahoe/Glengoole early register pass is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-gortnahoe-glengoole-vtls000632725-1805-1811-register-pass-2026-06-12.html. It checks NLI register vtls000632725, microfilm 02493 / 02, baptism pages 004-018 from Sep. 1805 through Jan. 1811 and marriage pages 120-125 through Feb. 1811. No Thomas McKenna/Kenna/Kinna/MacKenna/Gna/Gnaw parent, sponsor, spouse, or witness; no Jane/Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke target; no son Thomas baptism; and no clean Kenna/Kinna/McKenna surname-control entry was found. This closes the earliest useful public Gortnahoe/Glengoole target window, not the full later register.

A Templemore/Clonmore early register pass is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-templemore-clonmore-vtls000632694-1807-1812-register-pass-2026-06-12.html. It checks NLI register vtls000632694, microfilm 02491 / 07, baptism pages 006-020 from Aug. 1807 through Oct. 1811 and marriage pages 066-073 from Nov. 1807 through Feb. 1812. No Thomas McKenna/Kenna/Kinna/MacKenna/Gna/Gnaw parent, sponsor, spouse, or witness; no Jane/Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke target; no son Thomas baptism; and no clean Kenna/Kinna/McKenna surname-control entry was found. This closes the earliest useful public Templemore/Clonmore target window, not the full later register.

A Moyne/Templetuohy early register pass is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-moyne-templetuohy-vtls000632751-752-1804-1813-register-pass-2026-06-12.html. It checks NLI marriage register vtls000632751, microfilm 02491 / 03, pages 005-016 from Feb. 1804 through Oct. 1812 and baptism register vtls000632752, microfilm 02491 / 01, pages 005-035 from Jan. 1809 through Jan. 1813. No Thomas McKenna/Kenna/Kinna/MacKenna/Gna/Gnaw parent, sponsor, spouse, or witness; no Jane/Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke target; no son Thomas baptism; and no clean Kenna/Kinna/McKenna surname-control entry was found. This closes the earliest useful public Moyne/Templetuohy target window, not the full later registers.

A resumed NAI Tithe Applotment variant expansion is now saved in raw/evidence/nai-tithe-tipperary-mckenna-variant-expansion-2026-06-12.html. It checked county-wide Tipperary Kenna, Kinna, McKenna, MacKenna, M'Kenna, and the Kerry-style Ginna/Gna/Gnaw/Guinaw/Kunnal spellings. Kenna returns 28 Tipperary rows, with only one Thomas-form row: Thos Kenna, Castle Meadow, Thurles, 1833. Kinna returns 31 rows, including Thos Kinna, Annefield, Inch and Philip Kinna, Obriensland or Gortna Sogarth, Thurles, 1833. The other tested spellings return no Tipperary tithe results. This strengthens the caution that the Castle Meadow row may belong to a local Tipperary Kenna/Kinna pattern, not to the Ballyduhig/Kilshenane Thomas unless a separate bridge appears.

A dedicated Annefield/Inch tenant-control note is now saved in raw/evidence/nai-tithe-annefield-inch-kinna-kenna-tenant-control-2026-06-12.html. It deepens the Drom/Inch lead: the official NAI tithe index has Thos Kinna and Jno Kinna at Annefield, Inch; the saved manuscript page itself is too faded to read confidently, but readable neighboring pages bracket it inside an Annfield/Annefield sequence; and the Tipperary Archive Inch Rate Book 1845 places visual-read John Kenna in the Annefield block. This documents a real nearby Kinna/Kenna tenant cluster and makes Drom/Inch a high-priority church/register lane, but it does not prove elder Thomas, Jane, or the younger Thomas baptism.

A deeper Thurles no-stone-unturned pass is now saved in raw/evidence/thurles-no-stone-unturned-thomas-jane-deep-pass-2026-06-12.html. It adds Samuel Lewis's 1837 Thurles context, a page-neighbor read of the Castle Meadow tithe manuscript, public Archive.org freeholder/directory metadata controls, and a widened Church of Ireland request path that includes Rahelty, Shyane, and Adnith with Thurles. The Castle Meadow page confirms Thos Kenna at entry 180 but does not show a Foulkes/Fowke/Ffoulkes name nearby. Current clear text: Thurles is documented as a real Foulkes/Kenna search lane, but no found Thurles record yet names Jane with Thomas, bridges Castle Meadow to Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, or proves elder Thomas lived/worked at Thurles.

A follow-up Archive.org public-text control is now saved in raw/evidence/archive-org-thurles-surname-search-control-2026-06-12.html, with 22 JSON searches preserved in raw/evidence/archive-org-thurles-surname-searches-2026-06-12/. It checked Thurles or Castle Meadow against Thomas/Thos, Jane, Geo/George, McKenna/Kenna/Kinna/MacKenna/M'Kenna, and Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke/Foulke/Foulks/Folkes variants. All 22 Archive.org Advanced Search responses returned numFound: 0. This is a public OCR/directory/book boundary only and does not disprove the Thurles tradition.

A National Archives of Ireland Diocesan Wills Thurles/Tipperary probate-control pass is now saved in raw/evidence/nai-dw-thurles-tipperary-probate-control-2026-06-12.html, with the underlying NAI result pages preserved under raw/evidence/nai-dw-cashel-emly-*2026-06-12.html and raw/evidence/nai-dw-anydiocese-tipperary-*2026-06-12.html. It checked Cashel and Emly + Thurles, Cashel and Emly + County Tipperary, and blank-diocese + County Tipperary for Thomas Kenna/Kinna/McKenna, Jane Foulkes, and Foulkes/Foulke/Fowke/Fowkes/Folkes variants. All returned No Results. This closes the tested official probate-index lane for Thurles/Tipp only; it is not a disproof of the Thurles story.

A National Archives of Ireland Valuation Office Books pass is now saved in raw/evidence/nai-vob-thurles-kenna-kinna-foulkes-control-2026-06-12.html. It adds official post-1835 tenant controls for the Thurles Kenna/Kinna cluster: Kinna Thomas appears in Thurles in 1846 and 1847, Kinna Thos appears at Thurles Townparks in 1847, and Kinna Thomas appears at Thurlestownparks in 1849. The same pass saves negative controls for Jane Kenna/Kinna/McKenna in Tipperary, Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Foulke/Fowke/Fowkes as Tipperary occupiers, Foulkes/Fowke as Tipperary lessor/other names, Castle Meadow in VOB, and Thomas McKenna/MacKenna/Ginnan/Guinaw in Tipperary. This strengthens the local Thurles-cluster caution after elder Thomas's 1835 death; it does not prove elder Thomas or Jane lived at Thurles.

A Tipperary Studies / Thurles Poor Law Union rate-book pass is now saved in raw/evidence/tipperary-studies-thurles-rate-book-1849-ocr-control-2026-06-12.html. Tipperary Studies identifies Thurles Rate Book 1849 as a 210-page Thurles Poor Law Union PDF, with catalogue tags including Castlemeadow, Church Lane, Nicholas Street, and Thurlestownparks. The downloaded PDF is image-only, so a Vision OCR TSV and contact sheets were created and manually checked against fuzzy hits. No clean Thomas McKenna/Kenna/Kinna, Jane, or Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke entry was found. A follow-up pagination control over the 12 saved collection=19 / search=Thurles result pages found only two literal Thurles Rate Book titles: item 489 (1849) and item 490 (1868); adjacent item 488 is Knigh Gravestone Inscriptions, not an earlier Thurles rate book. Because the 1849 book is post-1835, this is a source/negative-control layer and not elder-Thomas proof or disproof.

An all-County-Tipperary consolidation is now saved in raw/evidence/all-tipperary-thomas-jane-countywide-control-2026-06-12.html. It pulls together the county-wide NAI tithe, NAI wills, Valuation Office Books, CSO/RP, Registry of Deeds, Tipperary Studies, Thurles register, Church of Ireland, Griffith, and public-text layers. Clear reading: Tipperary does document Thomas/Thos Kenna/Kinna men, including Thos Kenna, Castle Meadow, Thurles, 1833 and Thos Kinna, Annefield, Inch, but none of the all-county layers found a record tying those men to Jane Foulkes, Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, Monaghan, Wexford, or the 5 May 1835 death. Jane/Foulkes/Fowke variants remain negative in the official Tipperary tithe, probate, VOB, CSO/RP, Tipperary Studies, and public-text controls checked here.

A widened adjacent-county control pass is now saved in raw/evidence/adjacent-counties-thomas-jane-control-2026-06-12.html, with 608 official NAI result pages indexed at raw/evidence/adjacent-county-nai-controls-2026-06-12/summary.csv. It checks Cork, Limerick, Clare, Galway, Offaly, Laois, Kilkenny, and Waterford across NAI Tithe Applotment Books, Diocesan/Prerogative Wills, and Valuation Office Books. No pre-1835 adjacent-county tithe or probate result was found for Thomas/Thos Kenna/Kinna/McKenna/MacKenna/Ginna/Gna/Gnaw variants in the tested grid. The pass does find real Foulke/Fowke/Fowkes/Foulkes controls mainly in Cork and Waterford and later post-1835 VOB Thomas/Kenna-type controls in Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford, but no Jane/Thomas/Ballyduhig/Kilshenane/Monaghan/Wexford/1835-death bridge surfaced.

A National Archives of Ireland Census Search Forms control is now saved in raw/evidence/nai-census-search-thurles-kenna-kinna-foulkes-control-2026-06-12.html. It checked applicant surnames Kenna, Kinna, McKenna, and Foulkes in Thurles parish, County Tipperary. All four official searches returned No Results. This is a narrow census-substitute boundary only, not a disproof.

A late official census/civil-control note is now saved in raw/evidence/nai-census-1901-1911-thurles-kenna-mason-cluster-2026-06-11.html. It preserves the 1880 civil birth of Thomas Kenna at Turtulla/Moycarkey, Thurles, son of William Kenna, mason, and Ellen Kenna formerly Griffin, plus 1901 and 1911 National Archives of Ireland census pages for the same kind of Thurles Kenna masonry cluster. This is not evidence for Thomas McKenna (1772-1835), Jane, or son Thomas d.1870; it is a caution that Thomas Kenna + mason + Thurles can belong to a separate local Thurles line.

A document-count and Thurles register-inventory note is now preserved in raw/evidence/thurles-two-thomases-document-count-2026-06-11.md. Current count: elder Thomas has 2+ existence / identity-tradition documents; Jane has at least one direct document in the Kilshenane headstone; son Thomas d.1870 has at least one direct document and a strong Kerry paper trail; and the 1831 Listowel baptism of Thomas Gnaw is a younger Thomas baptism but is best read as a grandson, not the baptism of son Thomas d.1870. The same note saves the National Library of Ireland Thurles parish-register inventory: Thurles, parish id 0280, Diocese of Cashel and Emly, County Tipperary, with Catholic baptisms from 9 Mar 1795 and marriages from 13 Apr 1795.

An IrishGenealogy civil-death negative-search note is now saved in raw/evidence/irishgenealogy-civil-death-negative-searches-thomas-1870-ann-1895-2026-06-11.html. It checked official civil-death searches for son Thomas McKenna d. 16 Jan 1870 under Kenna/McKenna/Ginna/Gnaw/MacKenna/Mackena variants in Listowel/Kerry, plus exact-date Listowel death searches, and for Ann/Annie Thornton McKenna d. 3 May 1895 under Ann/Anne/Annie and Kenna/McKenna/MacKenna variants. No civil-death result was found in those saved pages. This does not weaken the headstone proof; it records that the civil death entries remain unlocated.

Follow-up correction, 16 June 2026: a wider official IrishGenealogy civil-death grid found Thomas M'Kenna / McKenna of Ballyduhig, died 4 Jan 1873, age 80, in Listowel/Ballyhorgan civil registration. This corrects the earlier "unlocated" status only for a date-conflicting Ballyduhig Thomas death; it does not prove the headstone's 16 Jan 1870 son-Thomas date and does not prove elder Thomas.

A first-pass visual review of the key Thurles Catholic marriage pages is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-thurles-1797-1799-marriage-first-pass-2026-06-11.md. Pages 29-31 of NLI register vtls000632766, covering May 1797 through June 1799, did not show an obvious McKenna / Kenna / Gna / Gnaw / Foulkes / Ffoulkes / Fowke entry on first inspection. This is a negative control, not a formal full transcription and not a disproof of the Thurles story.

An early-page NLI Thurles register completion pass is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-thurles-1795-1798-register-completion-pass-2026-06-12.html, with OCR at raw/evidence/nli-thurles-vtls000632766-1795-1798-missing-pages-vision-ocr-2026-06-12.tsv and page images 003-011 plus 022-028 preserved. It closes the earlier unreviewed visible pages in register vtls000632766: baptisms Mar 1795-July 1798 and marriages Apr 1795-May 1797. No obvious Thomas/Jane marriage, child baptism, son-Thomas baptism, Jane/Foulkes sponsor, or McKenna/Kenna target entry was found. The fuzzy OCR Jane on page 4 is an ordinary baptismal forename; the page 24 Kenney/Kennedy-type marriage is not a target bridge.

An extended NLI Thurles register pass is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-thurles-1799-1804-marriage-and-baptism-register-pass-2026-06-11.md. It reviews marriage pages 32-43 through 18 Nov 1804 and baptism pages 12-20 covering July 1798-Jan 1810, with the 1801-1806 baptism gap noted. It found one positive local Kenna control: a 27 Nov 1802 Thurles Catholic marriage that appears to read Samuel Kenna to Honora Halloran. It did not find an obvious Thomas McKenna/Kenna/Gna/Gnaw + Jane/Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke marriage, child, or sponsor entry on first visual pass.

A targeted review of the next NLI Thurles register is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-thurles-1805-1821-targeted-register-pass-2026-06-11.md. It covers selected baptism windows in register vtls000632767, microfilm 02489 / 05, including 1805-1806, 1809-1811, 1815-1817, and 1820-1821, plus early continuation marriage pages 135-151 for 1805-1810. No obvious Thomas/Jane marriage, child baptism, son-Thomas baptism, Jane/Foulkes sponsor entry, or additional Kenna control was found on this targeted visual pass. It is a boundary check, not a full line-by-line transcription of the whole 1805-1821 register.

A gap-closing review of the same NLI Thurles register is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-thurles-1811-1820-gap-register-pass-2026-06-11.md. It reviews baptism pages 45-81 for 1811-1815, baptism pages 97-119 for 1817-1820, and marriage pages 152-180 for 1810-1820, with new contact sheets and zoom sheets. No obvious Thomas/Jane marriage, child baptism, son-Thomas baptism, Jane/Foulkes sponsor entry, or additional Kenna control was found on this first visual pass. This materially tightens the Catholic-register boundary around Thurles, but it still does not disprove the family tradition because Jane may have been Protestant, the marriage may have been elsewhere, or a line may be obscured.

A Castle Meadow follow-up pass in the next NLI Thurles register is now saved in raw/evidence/nli-thurles-1822-1833-castle-meadow-control-pass-2026-06-11.md. It reviews register vtls000632768, microfilm 02489 / 06, with baptism pages 126-139 covering Dec. 1832-Dec. 1833 and marriage pages 180-183 covering Nov. 1832-Dec. 1833. No obvious McKenna/Kenna/Kinna/Gna/Gnaw/Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke target entry was found on first visual pass. This is a bounded negative control around the 1833 Castle Meadow Thos Kenna tithe row; it strengthens the caution against merging that man with Ballyduhig/Kilshenane Thomas without a bridge.

A four-lane status note is now preserved in raw/evidence/thomas-mckenna-four-lane-goal-status-2026-06-11.md. Current reading: Thurles and Monaghan now have official same-name or place controls; Wexford has positive published descendant-source route evidence from Irish Life and Lore but the newly saved 11 June NAI Wexford tithe/wills searches and the 11 June Internet Archive public-OCR pass are negative for target McKenna/Kenna variants; no new period Wexford Jane/Jane Foulkes document surfaced; and the Kerry loop-back still rests on the headstone plus the 1821/1826 Thomas Guinaw sponsor clues, the 1825 Coolnaleen Lower Thos Kunnal candidate, and the conflicting 1828 Coolatun/Killshanane Thomas Kenna probate hook.

The John Murphy / Knockanure churchyard local-history paragraph is now isolated at raw/evidence/john-murphy-knockanure-jane-foulks-mckenna-local-history-2026-06-10.md, with the saved page at raw/evidence/knockanure-info-knockanure-john-murphy-jane-foulks.html. It supports the Ballyduhig/Smearla Hill, Jane Foulks, McKenna elopement, Leahy daughter, and Kilsinan/Kilshenane burial tradition, but it does not explicitly give Thomas's forename in the target sentence and is local-history evidence rather than an official record.

Roman Catholic Ardfert/Aghadoe evidence is now separated in raw/evidence/roman-catholic-ardfert-aghadoe-thomas-mckenna-records-2026-06-10.md. The official IrishGenealogy/NLI layer documents Thomas McKenna of Irramore marrying Elizabeth Dunn in Lixnaw RC parish on 13 Feb 1829, then the same Ballyduhig household appears in Listowel RC baptisms under Gnaw/Gna spellings in 1831, 1833, and 1837. This proves a Thomas McKenna in the relevant Roman Catholic Diocese of Kerry / historical Ardfert and Aghadoe record world. It is best read as their son Thomas McKenna d.1870, not as a direct parish-register entry for Thomas 1772 + Jane Foulkes. A follow-up expansion at raw/evidence/irishgenealogy-pre-1835-thomas-mckenna-variant-expansion-2026-06-10.md adds official pre-1835 Thomas-variant sponsor or child records for Thomas Genna/Gna/Gnaw/Kenna/Mcenna in 1820, 1821, 1825, 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833, plus same-name control households. The best elder-Thomas RC-register clues remain the 1821 Rathea and 1826 Coolnaleen Lixnaw sponsor entries naming Thomas Guinaw; the new 17 Oct 1832 Lixnaw Mary Hartnett record adds Thomas Mcenna as another official pre-1835 sponsor control in a McKenna maternal line.

An Irramore-specific check is now preserved in raw/evidence/irramore-thomas-mckenna-hypothesis-2026-06-10.md. Current answer: Irramore is a real McKenna-family/local-register setting, but it is not yet proved as elder Thomas's residence or workplace. The 1829 marriage gives address/residence for the likely son Thomas, not an occupation; the occupation fields are not recorded. The NAI Tithe Applotment search for the townland under Erymore produced a manuscript page with no Kenna/McKenna/Ginna/Gnaw/Guinaw occupier. Earlier and later controls do place McKenna variants in the Irremore register network: James Guinaw was sponsor at an 1814 Irremore baptism, and Thomas Ginaw witnessed an 1840 Irrimore/Bridget McEnna marriage after elder Thomas's death.

The Kerry Tithe Applotment variant sweep is now preserved in raw/evidence/nai-tithe-kerry-thomas-mckenna-variant-sweep-2026-06-10.md. It found documented pre-1835 Kerry men named Thomas M'Kenna, Thomas Kinna, Thomas Gnaw, and Thos Kunnal. The most important local candidate is Thos Kunnal, Coolnaleen Lower, Kilshenane, 1825, because Coolnaleen Lower sits in the same Kilshenane/Ballyduhig neighborhood. The surname is not yet proved to be Kenna/McKenna, so this is a serious local candidate-control, not a finished proof. Exact Kenna rows for Ed Kenna and Jans/Jno Kenna at Rathea/Ratheal, Kilshenane, 1825, are local collateral controls but do not name Thomas. A newly surfaced 1825 manuscript crop for Jno Thos. Ginna at Kilderry/Kilcolman is now preserved as a distant spelling control for Ginna, not a Ballyduhig/Kilshenane proof.

The pre-1835 Irish Newspaper Archive / freeholder and exact Ballyduhig tithe follow-up is now preserved in raw/evidence/irish-newspaper-archive-pre-1835-kenna-freeholder-and-ballyduhig-tithe-sweep-2026-06-10.html. It retrieved the 24 Jun 1829 Tralee Mercury County Kerry freehold list, which documents Timothy Kenna of Aunagarry but no Thomas/Ballyduhig/Kilshenane/Irramore hit. It also saves the 1825 NAI Ballyduhig tithe page: the indexed occupiers are Thos Naghten, Pat Newile, Edmd Brown, Mich Brosnahan/Brosnahaw, and Edmd Walsh, with no Kenna/McKenna/Ginna/Gnaw/Kunnal-style occupier. Exact Kerry newspaper searches for Thomas Kenna, Thos Kenna, Thomas McKenna, and Thomas + Ballyduhig from 1798-1835 returned zero results, and May-June 1835 death-window searches for Kenna/M'Kenna/McKenna/Ballyduhig/Kilshenane returned no target result.

An all-title Irish Newspaper Archive recheck is preserved in raw/evidence/ina-1829-1835-thomas-kenna-ballyduhig-kilshenane-newspaper-sweep-2026-06-10.html. It widens the Kerry-only newspaper pass and still finds no pre-5 May 1835 target hit for elder Thomas. The exact Thomas Kenna hits are Dublin/Freeman's Journal controls, the all-title Ballyduhig hit is Michael Harnett in the 3 Oct 1832 Limerick Chronicle, and the all-title Kilshenane hit is a 29 Jan 1834 Kerry Evening Post tithe-relief/parish notice naming Kilshenane in Ardfert and Aghadoe, Kerry, with no Kenna/McKenna person.

The Registry of Deeds Index Project sweep is preserved in raw/evidence/irishdeedsindex-kerry-thomas-kenna-registry-sweep-2026-06-10.md. It found no pre-5 May 1835 Ballyduhig/Kilshenane/Coolnaleen/Rathea/Coolatun-Coolatin deed-index bridge for Thomas Kenna/McKenna/Ginna/Gnaw/Kinna/Kunnal. The only Kerry McKenna townland-index control found was a Dingle/Kinikeen McKENNA-to-RICE memorial reference, outside the target north-Kerry geography.

A 16 June 2026 Registry of Deeds mason follow-up is now preserved in raw/evidence/irishdeedsindex-thurles-kenna-mason-registry-continuation-2026-06-16.html. It confirms that the index contains two early Kenna masons in the Thurles/Tipperary lane: Michael Kenna of Thurles, mason, in memorial 384351, and Patrick Kenna of Thurles, mason, in memorial 415045. The control is useful because the 1828 Coolatun/Killshanane Thomas Kenna probate row also uses the occupation mason; however, this pass found no Thomas/Jane bridge and no reason to merge the Thurles mason controls with the Kilshenane headstone Thomas.

The National Archives of Ireland CSO/RP catalogue sweep is preserved in raw/evidence/csorp-kenna-thomas-kerry-catalogue-sweep-2026-06-10.md. It found no direct CSO/RP hit for elder Thomas in Ballyduhig/Kilshenane. The useful official controls are Patrick McKenna/Kenna of Killarney in 1819-1820, Edmond Kenna in the 1826 Tralee election/freeholder violence file, and James McKenna of Castleblayney/Broomfield in 1821. Exact Thomas McKenna / Thomas Kenna hits in CSO/RP were non-target men in Meath, Dublin, Laois/Queen's County, Kildare, and the Irish customs context.

Roman Catholic registers · 10 June 2026

Ardfert/Aghadoe Catholic Record Proof

The old Ardfert and Aghadoe Catholic diocesan label maps to the modern NLI/IrishGenealogy Kerry (RC) register layer. The official record set now gives one clean Thomas McKenna marriage in Lixnaw and several linked Listowel/Ballyduhig baptisms under McKenna's Kerry spellings. It also preserves pre-1835 Thomas-variant sponsor entries, same-name control households, and Jane Gnaw/Kenna collateral records.

• 13 Feb 1829
  Lixnaw

  Marriage of Thomas McKenna of Irramore and Elizabeth Dunn. This is clean official RC documentation of Thomas McKenna in the historical Ardfert/Aghadoe-Kerry Catholic register world, likely the son Thomas d.1870. f67e8588e4-18125

• 4 Oct 1814
  Lixnaw

  Baptism of John Lynch at Irremore; sponsor James Guinaw. This shows a McKenna-variant adult in the Irremore network before the 1829 Thomas marriage, but it is not a Thomas 1772 proof. 2248ae32b8-31607

• 28 Aug 1831
  Listowel

  Baptism of Thomas Gnaw, Ballyduhig, son of Thomas Gnaw and Elizabeth Dunne. This places the same father at Ballyduhig under the local Gnaw spelling. 2248ae32b8-19752

• 25 May 1833
  Listowel

  Baptism of James Gnaw, Ballyduhig, son of Thomas Gna and Elizabeth Dunne. This is a strong candidate for the later James line, probably as grandson of Thomas 1772 rather than son. 2248ae32b8-20203

• 18 Feb 1837
  Listowel

  Baptism of Patrick Gnaw, Ballyduhig, son of Thomas Gnaw and Elizabeth Dunne. This completes the saved Ballyduhig child sequence for the son-Thomas household; it postdates elder Thomas's 1835 death. 2248ae32b8-20354

• 19 Jan 1821
  Lixnaw

  Baptism of Bridget Guinaw, Rathea; sponsor Thomas Guinaw. This is a candidate elder-Thomas clue inside the Edmund Guinaw + Ellen Stack branch. 2248ae32b8-32388

• 10 Dec 1826
  Lixnaw

  Baptism of Maurice Haily, Coolnaleen; mother Elizabeth Guinaw; sponsor Thomas Guinaw. This is a second candidate elder-Thomas/collateral sponsor clue. 2248ae32b8-33462

• 17 Sep 1820
  Lixnaw

  Baptism of Thomas Harmon, Gortinear; sponsor Thomas Genna. This is a new official pre-1835 Thomas-variant reference, but the surrounding controls make it more likely to belong to the separate Thomas Genna/Johanna Quilter household than to elder Thomas 1772. 2248ae32b8-32343

• 28 Dec 1821
  Listowel

  Baptism of Thomas Gna, Ballygologue, son of John Gna and Mary Mullony; sponsor Thomas Gna. This is a same-name branch control rather than elder-Thomas proof. 2248ae32b8-16869

• 17 Jul 1825
  Listowel

  Baptism of Honora Gnaw, Gortaglanna; sponsor Thomas Gnaw. This is another official pre-1835 Thomas-variant sponsor reference, but it has no Ballyduhig/Jane relationship bridge. 2248ae32b8-17958

• 9 Apr 1831
  Lixnaw

  Baptism of John Gnaw, Ballingerah; sponsor Thomas Gnaw. This is a new official pre-1835 Thomas-variant reference, but it is ambiguous between elder Thomas, son Thomas, or another Thomas in the wider Gnaw network. 2248ae32b8-34273

• 17 Oct 1832
  Lixnaw

  Baptism of Mary Hartnett, Green; mother Ellen Mckenna; sponsor Thomas Mcenna. This is another official pre-1835 Thomas-variant sponsor control, but it has no Jane/Foulkes, residence, age, or relationship bridge. 2248ae32b8-34546

• 27 Apr 1838
  Lixnaw

  Baptism of Timothy Connor, Rathea; sponsor Jane Ginnaw. This is official pre-1841 Jane-name McKenna-variant evidence in the Rathea/Lixnaw cluster, but it does not identify her as Jane Ffoulkes, wife of elder Thomas, or as daughter Jane. 2248ae32b8-35591

• 1830/1833
  Coolnaleen

  Child-name controls for Thomas Kenna, son of John Kenna and Catherine Brosnahan, and Thomas Gnaw, son of Patrick Gnaw and Sarah Stack. These are younger-generation controls, not elder Thomas. 1830 · 1833

• 1832/1833
  Erymore

  NAI Tithe Applotment control page for Erymore/Irramore, Kilfeighny. No McKenna-variant occupier appears in the index or manuscript section. Erymore search

• 20 Feb 1840
  Lixnaw

  Marriage of James Griffin of Irrimore and Bridget McEnna; witness Thomas Ginaw. This is a local McKenna-variant control, but the witness post-dates elder Thomas's 1835 death. f67e8588e4-18536

• 4 Feb 1841
  Lixnaw

  Marriage of James Larkin of Irrimore and Jane Gnaw. This is Jane-adjacent official RC evidence, likely daughter/collateral Jane, not Jane Foulkes who died in 1840. f67e8588e4-18561

Tithe Applotment Books · 10 June 2026

Kerry Thomas McKenna Variant Sweep

The NAI Tithe Applotment Books pass found several pre-1835 Kerry Thomas McKenna-variant rows. The most important local lead is Thos Kunnal at Coolnaleen Lower, Kilshenane, 1825. Because the surname is not yet proved as Kenna/McKenna, the row is shown here as a candidate-control, not as settled evidence for elder Thomas McKenna.

• 1825
  Coolnaleen Lower

  Thos Kunnal, Kilshenane, Kerry. Best target-geography tithe candidate because Coolnaleen Lower is in the Ballyduhig/Kilshenane neighborhood; surname unresolved. row crop

• 1825
  Rathea/Ratheal

  Ed Kenna and Jans/Jno Kenna, Kilshenane, Kerry. Exact same-parish Kenna controls; neither row names Thomas. page image

• 1826
  Ballyneesteenig

  Thomas M'Kenna, Cloghane, Kerry. Exact pre-1835 Kerry Thomas McKenna control, likely a different man because the geography is far west on the Dingle peninsula. page image

• Year blank
  Andamore Lower

  Thomas M'Kenna, Kinard, Kerry. Exact Kerry Thomas McKenna control outside the Ballyduhig/Kilshenane target geography. page image

• 1825
  Lack West

  Thomas Kinna, Ballinvoher, Kerry. Spelling-control row outside target geography. page image

• Year blank
  Tinnahahy

  Thomas Gnaw, Killorglin, Kerry. Useful because Gnaw/Gna is documented in the Listowel/Lixnaw McKenna register world; still outside target geography. page image

Source bundle · 10 June 2026

Non-Gravestone Proof Documents

These are the documents behind the non-gravestone proof note, surfaced directly on the Thomas page. The NAI row is official same-place evidence, while the Roche and Donald McKenna documents carry the Thomas + Jane family identity outside the gravestone.

Thurles / Tipperary controls · 11-20 June 2026

Thurles / Tipperary Documents

This bundle keeps the Thurles claim visible without overstating it. The family-memory route says Thomas fled from Wexford to Thurles, where Jane sheltered him. The current documents prove a Foulkes-named Protestant inhabitant at Thurles in 1786, a local Kenna marriage in the Thurles Catholic register in 1802, and a Thomas/Kenna-variant occupier at Castle Meadow, Thurles, in 1833. The NLI inventory proves that Thurles Catholic registers survive early enough to test the post-1798 Catholic-register lane, and the saved 11 June 2026 visual passes now document the negative Catholic-register boundary through selected 1805-1821 windows plus a focused 1833 Castle Meadow follow-up. The current Church of Ireland parish-register list also shows Thurles baptisms from 1713, marriages from 1715, and burials from 1713, keeping the Protestant Jane/Foulkes lane active. The 12 June 2026 deep pass adds Lewis 1837 context, showing the Church of Ireland living was united to Rahelty, Shyane, and Adnith, and records that no Foulkes/Fowke/Ffoulkes name appears on the checked Castle Meadow tithe page beside Thos Kenna. The Archive.org public-text control returned zero results for 22 Thurles/Castle Meadow surname queries, closing one public OCR/directory/book route without disproving the story. The 12 June 2026 Valuation Office Books pass adds official 1846-1849 post-1835 tenant controls for Thomas Kinna / Thos Kinna in Thurles, Thurles Townparks, and Thurlestownparks, plus Jane/Foulkes/McKenna spelling no-result controls. The Tipperary Studies 1849 Thurles Rate Book pass checks the local Poor Law rate-book PDF with OCR/contact sheets, manual fuzzy-page review, and a 12-page archive pagination control; it confirms the source covers Castlemeadow, Church Lane, Nicholas Street, and Thurlestownparks but found no clean target name and no earlier literal Thurles rate-book item. The 13 June 2026 Tipperary Studies Ballymoreen / Borrisoleigh / Littleton pass follows the Ballydavid / Ballymurreen control lane with three more local rate books, including Littleton 1850 pages 11-14 for Ballydavid; OCR plus visual checks found no clean Thomas/Jane bridge. A separate Annefield/Inch pass now preserves official NAI Thos Kinna and Jno Kinna tithe rows plus the 1845 Inch Rate Book visual-read John Kenna in the Annefield block, making Drom/Inch the strongest still-open nearby RC lane. The Drom-Inch / Annefield public-web control records that public Annefield/Annfield, Drom-Inch, Kinna/Kenna/McKenna, and Tipperary Studies searches found no Thomas/Jane/son-Thomas bridge. The 13 June 2026 Drom-Inch access chase now preserves the current RootsIreland/NLI mismatch: RootsIreland lists Drom-Inch baptisms from 1809 and marriages from 1807, while public NLI Drom and Inch registers begin in 1827, and the RootsIreland North Tipperary search routes are login-gated. A 12 June 2026 NAI census-search forms pass returned no Thurles parish result for Kenna, Kinna, McKenna, or Foulkes applicants. Later Griffith and NAI census controls keep Kenna/Kinna occupants visible in Thurles, including Thomas Kinna rows and a 1911 Thomas Kenna, mason, which makes a separate local Thurles surname cluster plausible. These documents do not yet name Jane, Monaghan, Ballyduhig, the 1835 death, or a relationship between the Thurles/Annefield tithe men and the Kerry family.

The 1798 Tipperary rebellion-control refresh keeps the headstone wording in the right source lane. The remote published rebellion controls are negative for Thomas/Kenna/McKenna and Foulkes targets, so the rebellion claim now points to NAI Rebellion Papers card-index/microfilm work, contemporary newspapers, and yeomanry lists. That is separate from the church-ring work, which remains the right lane for Jane, a marriage, or a younger Thomas baptism.

• 1786
  Thurles

  Saved IGP/Freeman's Journal transcription names Geo. Foulkes among Protestant inhabitants of the town and parish of Thurles. Positive Foulkes-place control only.

• 1798
  Rebellion controls

  The Tipperary rebellion-control refresh checks the headstone's 1798 REBELLION TIPPERARY wording against saved court-martial, South Tipperary 1798, Philip Cunningham, 1798 Centre, and yeomanry/Foulkes controls. No Thomas/Foulkes proof surfaced remotely; next proof lane is NAI Rebellion Papers plus newspapers and yeomanry rolls.

• 1833
  Castle Meadow

  Official NAI Tithe Applotment row: Kenna | Thos | Castle Meadow | Thurles | Tipperary | 1833. Positive Thomas/Kenna-place control only.

• 1795+
  Thurles registers

  NLI parish id 0280, Diocese of Cashel and Emly, County Tipperary. Baptisms begin 9 Mar 1795 and marriages begin 13 Apr 1795, so the filmed Catholic registers can test a post-1798 Thurles marriage/baptism hypothesis.

• 1713+
  Church of Ireland

  The Church of Ireland parish-register list identifies Thurles, Diocese of Cashel, County Tipperary, with baptisms 1713-1877, marriages 1715-1845, and burials 1713-1877. This is now the best next Jane/Foulkes register lane after the Catholic-pass negatives.

• 1837
  Lewis context

  Samuel Lewis describes Thurles as a market/post town and parish with court/session infrastructure. The Church of Ireland living was united to Rahelty, Shyane, and Adnith, so those names now belong in the RCB Library / local-custody request.

• 1795+ / access
  RootsIreland

  RootsIreland North Tipperary confirms online Thurles RC baptisms and marriages from 1795 and lists later North Tipperary street directories plus 1840-1849 Poor Law Rate Books for Nenagh and Thurles. Its online Church of Ireland table does not expose a standalone target-period Thurles row, so the Jane/Foulkes Protestant lane points to RCB Library / local-custody access.

• Near-Thurles churches
  register ring

  The church/register map ranks the neighboring lanes. Best target-period route remains Thurles Church of Ireland / Rahelty / Shyane / Adnith. The official Church of Ireland correction reopens Holy Cross, Borrisoleigh / Glankeen / Drom, and Templetuohy as secondary Protestant access lanes. Drom/Inch remains open and strengthened by Annefield tenant controls. Moycarkey's public marriage gap remains open. Killenaule/Moyglass is newly open for its Bru Boru / RootsIreland marriage layer 1742-1801, while its public NLI baptism pages Nov. 1797-Jan. 1802 are checked negative. Boherlahan/Dualla is partly checked and lower priority.

• Live church lookups
  action packet

  The next church work is now ranked as exact archive/search requests: Thurles Church of Ireland / Rahelty / Shyane / Adnith first; Holy Cross COI, Borrisoleigh / Glankeen / Drom COI, and Templetuohy COI next through RCB / local-custody access; Drom and Inch RC after the Protestant queue through RootsIreland / North Tipperary Genealogy Centre access; then the Moycarkey RC marriage gap and Killenaule/Moyglass RC marriage access. The packet lists the exact McKenna/Kenna/Kinna/Gna/Gnaw and Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke variants to use.

• South Tipperary
  updated queue

  The 20 June 2026 source-coverage update promotes Cahir after Killenaule/Moyglass because Cahir baptisms 1776-1793 and marriages 1776-1880 cross the Jane/Foulkes and Thomas/Jane windows. Carrick-on-Suir, Clogheen, and Cappawhite follow for narrower marriage, baptism, or later-control windows. This is a lookup-order update, not proof.

• Killenaule/Moyglass
  new open lane

  NLI parish 0275 confirms Killenaule / Moyglass. The public NLI baptism register vtls000632747 covers 1742-Jan. 1802, and pages 364-399, roughly Nov. 1797-Jan. 1802, were checked with no target bridge. The Bru Boru / RootsIreland table claims marriages 1742-1801, which remains an open access target.

• South-edge churches
  Boherlahan/Dualla

  Boherlahan & Dualla RC is now captured through NLI parish 0247 / register vtls000632659. Marriage pages 141-180, May 1810-Nov. 1821, and target baptism windows in 1810, 1816, and 1820-1821 were first-pass checked with no Thomas/Jane/Foulkes/McKenna bridge and no younger Thomas baptism. Unreviewed baptism pages remain lower-priority controls.

• Drom/Inch public web
  boundary

  The Annefield/Annfield and Drom-Inch public-web follow-up found no public Thomas/Jane/son-Thomas bridge under the Kinna/Kenna/McKenna and Foulkes variant set. This keeps Drom-Inch open as an access problem: the useful 1807/1809 layer needs RootsIreland / North Tipperary Genealogy Centre / archive lookup.

• Annefield / Inch
  Kinna-Kenna

  Official NAI tithe index rows place Thos Kinna and Jno Kinna at Annefield, Inch. The 1845 Inch Rate Book places visual-read John Kenna in the Annefield block. This is the strongest Drom/Inch cluster control so far, not proof of elder Thomas, Jane, or son Thomas.

• 1801-1809
  Moycarkey

  NLI register vtls000632663, microfilm 02488 / 04, baptism pages 003-065 were checked from Jan. 1801 through Oct. 1809. No Thomas/Jane/Foulkes/McKenna target, no son-Thomas baptism, and no clean Kenna/Kinna/McKenna control was found. Moycarkey's public NLI marriage gap over 1797-1809 remains unresolved.

• 1805-1811
  Gortnahoe/Glengoole

  NLI register vtls000632725, microfilm 02493 / 02, baptism pages 004-018 and marriage pages 120-125 were checked. No Thomas/Jane/Foulkes/McKenna target, no son-Thomas baptism, and no clean Kenna/Kinna/McKenna control was found. Full later register remains open.

• 1807-1812
  Templemore/Clonmore

  NLI register vtls000632694, microfilm 02491 / 07, baptism pages 006-020 and marriage pages 066-073 were checked. No Thomas/Jane/Foulkes/McKenna target, no son-Thomas baptism, and no clean Kenna/Kinna/McKenna control was found. Full later register remains open.

• 1804-1813
  Moyne/Templetuohy

  NLI marriage register vtls000632751, microfilm 02491 / 03, pages 005-016 and baptism register vtls000632752, microfilm 02491 / 01, pages 005-035 were checked. No Thomas/Jane/Foulkes/McKenna target, no son-Thomas baptism, and no clean Kenna/Kinna/McKenna control was found. Full later registers remain open.

• 1797-1799
  Marriage first pass

  First visual review of NLI Thurles register pages 29-31 found no obvious McKenna/Kenna/Gna/Gnaw/Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke entry in the May 1797 to June 1799 marriage window. Negative control only.

• 27 Nov 1802
  Thurles register

  Extended NLI register pass found a local Kenna control: Samuel Kenna married Honora Halloran in the Thurles Catholic marriage register. This is not Thomas/Jane proof, but it confirms Kenna in the local Catholic register series.

• 1799-1810
  Extended register pass

  Marriage pages 32-43 and baptism pages 12-20 showed no obvious Thomas McKenna/Kenna/Gna/Gnaw + Jane/Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke marriage, child, or sponsor entry on first visual review. Negative control only; not a formal line-by-line transcription.

• 1805-1821
  Targeted register pass

  NLI register vtls000632767, microfilm 02489 / 05, was checked in selected baptism windows and early continuation marriages. No obvious Thomas/Jane marriage, child baptism, son-Thomas baptism, Jane/Foulkes sponsor entry, or additional Kenna control was found. Negative control only; not a full transcription.

• 1833
  Castle Meadow register check

  NLI register vtls000632768, microfilm 02489 / 06, was checked in baptism pages 126-139 and marriage pages 180-183 around the 1833 Castle Meadow tithe row. No obvious target McKenna/Kenna/Kinna/Gna/Gnaw or Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke entry was found. Negative control only.

• 1833
  Thurles cluster

  Same tithe pass also finds Michl Kenna at Killinan and Philip Kinna at Obriensland or Gortna Sogarth, making a local Thurles Kenna/Kinna cluster plausible. The Philip manuscript image and row crop are now preserved locally.

• 1833
  Page-neighbor read

  The checked Castle Meadow tithe page confirms entry 180, Thos Kenna, but no Foulkes/Fowke/Ffoulkes name is visible on that page. This improves page context without creating a Jane/Thomas bridge.

• Public OCR
  Archive.org

  Twenty-two Archive.org Advanced Search JSON controls for Thurles/Castle Meadow plus Thomas, Jane, Geo/George, McKenna/Kenna/Kinna, and Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke variants returned numFound: 0. Public-text boundary only.

• 1846-1849
  Valuation Office Books

  Official NAI VOB result pages put Kinna | Thomas or Kinna | Thos in Thurles / Thurles Townparks / Thurlestownparks after elder Thomas's death. The same pass found no Jane Kenna/Kinna/McKenna, no Foulkes/Fowke/Ffoulkes occupier, and no Foulkes/Fowke lessor result in Tipperary. Cluster control only.

• 1849
  Tipperary Studies rate book

  Tipperary Studies item 489 identifies Thurles Rate Book 1849, a 210-page Poor Law Union rate-book PDF tagged with Castlemeadow, Church Lane, Nicholas Street, and Thurlestownparks. OCR plus targeted visual checks found no clean Thomas McKenna/Kenna/Kinna, Jane, or Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Fowke entry. Pagination across the 117-item Thurles browse set found only 1849 and 1868 literal Thurles rate-book titles. Source/control only.

• All Tipperary
  county-wide synthesis

  The 12 June 2026 all-county consolidation documents Thomas/Thos Kenna/Kinna records across Tipperary, including Castle Meadow/Thurles and Annefield/Inch, but no Jane/Thomas/Ballyduhig/Kilshenane/Monaghan/Wexford/1835-death bridge in the checked tithe, wills, VOB, CSO/RP, Registry, Tipperary Studies, Griffith, or public-text layers.

• Adjacent counties
  official grid

  The 12 June 2026 adjacent-county control checks Cork, Limerick, Clare, Galway, Offaly, Laois, Kilkenny, and Waterford across NAI tithes, wills, and VOB. It finds no pre-1835 adjacent-county Thomas/Kenna-type tithe or probate proof. It preserves Cork/Waterford Foulke/Fowke controls and later VOB Thomas/Kenna-type controls as boundary evidence only.

• 1841/1851 substitute
  NAI census-search forms

  Official NAI Census Search Forms queries for Kenna, Kinna, McKenna, and Foulkes in Thurles parish, County Tipperary, each returned No Results. Narrow boundary control only.

• Post-1835
  Griffith control

  Later Griffith extract keeps a Kenna/Kinna cluster in Thurles parish: Edward Kenna, Philip Kenna, James Kinna, and two Thomas Kinna rows. This is not elder-Thomas proof; it is a caution against merging the 1833 Castle Meadow Thomas without a bridge.

• 1880-1911
  Census/civil control

  Official IrishGenealogy and NAI pages preserve a late Thurles Kenna masonry line: Thomas Kenna was born at Turtulla/Moycarkey in 1880 to William Kenna, mason, and Ellen Kenna formerly Griffin; the 1911 household later includes Thomas Kenna, mason. This is not elder-Thomas proof; it cautions that a Thurles Thomas Kenna/mason pattern can be local.

• Controls
  to 1835

  No Foulkes/Fowke/Foulke/Foulks/Folkes/Fowkes/Fulkes/Fulks tithe or will hit was found for Tipperary/Thurles in the tested official NAI searches; no McKenna/Kenna diocesan/prerogative will hit was found for Thurles to 1835.

Adjacent counties · 12 June 2026

Adjacent County Documents

This widened control pass checks the full Tipperary border ring: Cork, Limerick, Clare, Galway, Offaly, Laois, Kilkenny, and Waterford. It preserves 608 official NAI result pages across Tithe Applotment Books, Diocesan/Prerogative Wills, and Valuation Office Books. The clear result: no pre-1835 adjacent-county Thomas/Kenna-type tithe or probate proof was found. Cork and Waterford do have real Foulke/Fowke/Fowkes/Foulkes controls, and Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford have later VOB Thomas/Kenna-type controls, but none names Jane, none bridges to Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, and none proves the elder Thomas McKenna.

• 608 pages
  NAI control grid

  The corrected grid saved 224 Tithe Applotment searches, 240 Diocesan/Prerogative Wills searches, and 144 Valuation Office Books searches. The CSV index records 24 positive result pages and 584 no-result pages.

• Pre-1835
  Thomas/Kenna

  No adjacent-county Tithe or Diocesan/Prerogative Wills result was found for the tested Thomas/Thos Kenna, Kinna, McKenna, MacKenna, Ginna, Gna, Gnaw, Guinaw, or Kunnal variants. This is the most important negative in the adjacent-county pass.

• Jane
  no positive

  Jane-specific searches returned no positive adjacent-county result: Jane with Foulkes/Ffoulkes/Foulke/Fowke/Fowkes/Folkes/Foulks/Fulks in wills to 1840, and Jane with Kenna/Kinna/McKenna in VOB.

• Cork/Waterford
  Foulke controls

  The corrected tithe and probate layers preserve Foulke/Fowke/Fowkes/Foulkes controls in Cork and Waterford, including Youghal, Mallow, Kilbrogan, Macroom, Lismore/Mocollop, and Tallow. Useful surname geography, not Jane proof.

• Post-1835
  Thomas controls

  Later VOB rows place Thomas/Thos Kenna/Kinna/McKenna controls in Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford after elder Thomas's death. Boundary evidence only.

Goal status · updated 14 June 2026

Four-Lane Goal Status: Thurles, Monaghan, Wexford, Kerry

This section keeps the active goal honest. The search now has documented Thomas records or controls in Thurles/Tipperary, Monaghan, and Kerry, plus a positive published descendant-source route for Wexford/Bantry/Ballyduhig through Irish Life and Lore. It still lacks a single period document proving the same elder Thomas through every place. Wexford remains the hard gap for official proof: the family story, Roche/Northern Standard tradition, and Irish Life and Lore keep it alive, while the new official NAI Wexford tithe/wills searches and the public Internet Archive OCR pass return no target result for the tested McKenna/Kenna variants.

• Thurles / Tipperary

  Positive controls: Geo. Foulkes at Thurles in 1786, Samuel Kenna in the 1802 Catholic marriage register, and official NAI 1833 Thos Kenna at Castle Meadow, Thurles. The 11 June NLI 02489 / 05 targeted and gap passes extend the negative Catholic-register boundary through selected 1805-1821 windows plus the 1811-1820 baptism/marriage gaps, and the 02489 / 06 Castle Meadow follow-up adds a negative 1833 baptism/marriage control around the tithe row. Still not Jane/Thomas proof.

• Monaghan

  Positive official same-name and place-cluster controls: the NAI Clogher/Armagh wills-index rows for Ross McKenna of Aughaderry, 1748; James McKenna of Aghaderry, 1780; and Thomas McKenna of Aghaderry, Co Monaghan, 1801; the 1775 Registry of Deeds Aughaderry place-context settlement naming Arthur McKenna and McCanna variants; 1813 Registry of Deeds memorial 453576 for Ross McKenna of Aghaderry assigning an 8-acre Aghaderry lease to his son Hugh McKenna; 1827 Registry of Deeds memorial 557198 for Thomas and Martha McKenna of Carnhollow/Cornahawla, Co Monaghan; and the 1830 Clontibret tithe entries for Thos Mckenna at Greenmount and Tullacomusky. Still not target proof: the Aghaderry NAI rows are probate/index years and the 1775 deed-context names do not bridge to Jane, Kerry, Wexford/Bantry, or the 1835 death.

• Wexford

  Positive route source: Irish Life and Lore CD191602-129 identifies John Joseph McKenna as a descendant of Thomas and gives the Monaghan to Wexford 1798 to Bantry to Ballyduhig route. Official/public no-result boundary: NAI Wexford tithe searches for Thomas McKenna, Thomas Kenna, Thos Kenna, McKenna, Kenna, MacKenna, M'Kenna, Kinna, Gna, and Gnaw returned no results; NAI Wexford wills searches to 1835 for Thomas McKenna, Thomas Kenna, McKenna, and Kenna also returned no results; and the public OCR pass over Hay, Wheeler/Broadley, Cloney, Taylor, Musgrave, Miles Byrne, Charles Jackson, and related pamphlets produced no target Thomas McKenna/Kenna hit. No new period Wexford Jane/Jane Foulkes document surfaced in this pass.

• Kerry loop-back

  Strongest official local candidates remain the 1821 Rathea and 1826 Coolnaleen Lixnaw sponsor entries naming Thomas Guinaw, plus the 1825 Coolnaleen Lower Thos Kunnal tithe candidate and the conflicting 1828 Thomas Kenna of Coolatun/Killshanane probate hook.

Current conclusion · 15 June 2026

Short Answer

Thomas McKenna (1772–1835) is secure as the man memorialized at Kilshenane / Kilsynan with wife Jane Ffoulkes McKenna and their son Thomas McKenna d. 1870. His birthplace, parentage, and 1798 route are not proved. Monaghan/Castleblayney, Thurles/Tipperary, Wexford/Bantry, and Kerry/local-origin possibilities remain open research lanes until a period record bridges Thomas to Jane, Ballyduhig/Kilshenane, his children, or the 5 May 1835 death.

Ballyduhig outward search · 26 May 2026

Children Evidence by Radius

A new concentric search note uses Ballyduhig as ground zero, then moves through the Kilshenane townland network, Listowel/Lixnaw registers, nearby north-Kerry parishes, and later emigrant records. The important result is not a clean eight-child proof; it is a ranked proof table. Only Thomas McKenna d.1870 is directly proved as Thomas and Jane's child by the Kilshenane headstone. Mary, Edmund/Edmond, Patrick, Jane, and Gerald/Garrett are real nearby adult household branches with varying strength. Elizabeth remains possible/collateral, and James is likely a generation collision with the better-recorded James Gnaw baptized at Ballyduhig in 1833.

The new National Archives census-search layer adds one useful record for the Jane branch: Anne Larkin, daughter of James Larkin and Jane, residence Rathea, Kilshenane, in the 1851 search index. That supports the same James Larkin + Jane Gnaw/Rathea household already found in Lixnaw parish records. Full child-by-child table: raw/thomas-mckenna-1772-children-concentric-ballyduhig-2026-05-26.md.

Listowel / St Mary's registers · 26 May 2026

Was St Mary's there in 1800?

No — not the present church building. Listowel Parish identifies St Mary's Roman Catholic Church as the main parish church built in 1829. But the Catholic worship context is older: the parish history PDF preserves a 1777 Masshouse reference and a later memory of Mass being read in a cabin in Tay Lane before the present chapel was built. So for Thomas McKenna's early Ballyduhig years, the likely answer is not "he went to the present St Mary's building," but "he belonged to the Listowel Catholic parish world that later centered on St Mary's."

The surviving register boundary matters. The National Library of Ireland Listowel register page begins baptisms on 3 August 1802; marriages survive/index from 8 January 1837 in the exposed NLI set. An exhaustive IrishGenealogy sweep of Listowel church records using the Kerry McKenna spellings retained 140 true McKenna-variant appearances: 126 baptisms, 14 marriages, and 0 church burials. IrishGenealogy itself warns that Kerry McKenna is often written as Gna, Gnaw, Guinaw, etc., so this search treated those spellings as the same surname cluster.

The source tables from the retained JSON are now embedded below. The first table is the focused Ballyduhig / Thomas-name extraction used for the Thomas-family argument. The second table is the full retained Listowel / St Mary's McKenna-variant register table: 140 records total, split as 126 baptisms and 14 marriages.

Ballyduhig and Thomas-Name Hits

All Retained Listowel / St Mary's McKenna-Variant Records

Full sweep, search parameters, retained/excluded records, and all IrishGenealogy record URLs: raw/listowel-st-marys-mckenna-variant-records-2026-05-26.md. Machine-readable data: raw/listowel-st-marys-mckenna-variant-records-2026-05-26.json. External anchors: Listowel Parish history, St Mary's history PDF, NLI Listowel register inventory, and IrishGenealogy church-records help.

Ballyduhig land and census substitute crosswalk · 26 May 2026

Ballyduhig Cross-Reference

No full 1800s household census schedule survives for Ballyduhig. The National Archives explains that most 1821-1851 Irish census returns were destroyed in 1922, Kerry is not in the listed surviving-county fragments, and no individual household returns exist for 1861, 1871, 1881, or 1891. The useful Ballyduhig census material is therefore census-substitute evidence: Griffith's Valuation in 1852 and the 1851 census-search forms created later for old-age-pension proof.

The cross-reference is still valuable. It puts the church-record Thomas Gna / Gnaw / McKenna household onto the Griffith's map as Thomas Ginna, Ballyduhig plot 10a, and it shows the same Ballyduhig surname clusters in the 1851 pension-search index: McKenna / Thornton and Loughnane / McCarthy.

Griffith's Ballyduhig Occupiers

1851 Ballyduhig Census-Search Rows

1800s Census Status

Full working note: raw/ballyduhig-griffith-census-crosswalk-2026-05-26.md. External anchors: NAI census records 1821-1891, NAI census-search forms guide, and NAI Ballyduhig townland-sorted search-results page.

Estate papers proof lane · 26-27 May 2026

Ballyduhig Rent Rolls

Estate papers are now the most important source class for the pre-1835 Ballyduhig theory. The landlord trail is specifically the Benn-Walsh / Lord Ormathwaite estate. Griffith's Valuation names Thomas Ginna/McKenna's immediate lessor at Ballyduhig plot 10a as Sir John Walsh, Bart., and the University of Galway Landed Estates entry identifies Sir John Benn-Walsh as a principal lessor in Kilshenane, Clanmaurice.

The 1 June estate-place proof note tightens this chain. The saved Benn-Walsh journal text puts Ballyduhig into Benn-Walsh's direct estate-management world after the old Supple / Knight-of-Kerry lease life ended in March 1849, then repeatedly names Kenagh/Kenna in the Ballyduhig division and improvement context from 1849 through the early 1860s. The same journal sequence places Kenna beside Walsh, Loughnane, and Naughten, matching the Griffith and local census-search neighbour pattern.

The newspaper layer now adds an earlier civic trail. The Kerry Evening Post text views place Kenna Thomas at Ballyduhig in published Clerk of the Peace voter-registration application lists: the Tralee session of 4 January 1837 and the Listowel District session of 2 November 1839. The 1836 notice identifies him as a farmer and mason claiming a 10 pound freeholder qualification through part of Ballyduhig; the 1839 notice ties the claim to a dwelling-house and lands at Ballyduhig. This is after Thomas 1772's death, so it likely documents his son Thomas d.1870, but it strongly supports immediate father-to-son continuity at Ballyduhig.

The follow-up search for the elder Thomas did not locate a public digitized pre-5 May 1835 entry naming him. It did confirm the exact underlying record class: County Kerry Clerk of the Peace freeholders' affidavits, notices of claim/applications, applications books/lists, and freeholders' registers. The Deputy Keeper's record guide says those registers could contain all facts sworn in the affidavit, and that some freeholder affidavit bundles even preserve deeds or leases produced at registration. That is the document family most likely to name tenure, lease lives, landlord, objections, or admission/rejection result.

The 1829 machinery is visible in CSORP: John Hurley Jr, Clerk of the Peace for County Kerry, was writing from Killarney and Tralee about freeholder registration notices in April 1829, and later files record Kerry Clerk of the Peace expenses from the recent registration. A 24 June 1829 Tralee Mercury page is also a strong next image target because a North Kerry extract identifies it as a County Kerry list of applications for registering freeholds. The accessible June 1829 Kerry Evening Post text views did not return Kenna/McKenna/Ginna/Gnaw/Ballyduhig hits.

The next archive targets are Ormathwaite rent ledgers, tenant-change lists, tenancy agreements, field-division maps, lease/surrender papers for Ballyduhig, and the County Kerry Clerk of the Peace freeholder material for 1829-1835. The sharpest repositories are Trinity College Dublin MS 5960-64 / MSS 5960-5965, Kerry Library's Lord Ormathwaite estate sale / Land Commission papers, NLW Ormathwaite Estate Records, and National Archives of Ireland Clerk of the Peace / freeholder holdings.

The 27 May request plan separates the estate archives by likely value: TCD first for Irish Ormathwaite deeds and papers, Kerry Library second for the 1907 tenancy particulars and 1900-1925 Land Commission sale files, and NLW third for diaries, maps, context, and transfer-list clues. The outbound inquiry packet was sent to all three repositories on 27 May 2026 and is tracked at raw/ballyduhig-ormathwaite-outbound-archive-inquiries-2026-05-27.md. Newspaper/freeholder search log: raw/irish-newspaper-archive-ballyduhig-thomas-kenna-search-2026-05-27.md. Freeholder/register target notes: raw/kerry-freeholder-register-targets-ballyduhig-thomas-kenna-2026-05-27.md and raw/kerry-freeholder-register-book-search-thomas-1772-2026-05-27.md. Full estate notes: raw/ballyduhig-ormathwaite-estate-rent-roll-targets-2026-05-26.md and raw/ballyduhig-ormathwaite-archive-request-plan-2026-05-27.md. External anchors: University of Galway Landed Estates, TCD Ormathwaite source index, Kerry Library Ormathwaite source note, NLW Ormathwaite Estate Records, and Hansard 1909 North Kerry Ormathwaite estate answer.

The 1 June D546 / Ormathwaite / Boughrood Fowke status note separates the proven estate/place link from the unproved blood-link question. The Ormathwaite/Benn-Walsh estate is the Ballyduhig/Kilshenane landlord world, but no direct father or blood bridge from the D546/Boughrood Fowkes to Jane Foulkes McKenna has been proved. The named Boughrood Jane Fowke is currently adverse as a person-level match because the visible lane points to Robert Roberts of Carmarthen, now supported by an 1831 Carmarthen linen-draper control, not Thomas McKenna. Estate-place proof note: raw/evidence/ballyduhig-ormathwaite-estate-place-proof-2026-06-01.md. Working note: raw/evidence/d546-ormathwaite-boughrood-fowkes-goal-status-2026-06-01.md.