It should be remembered that most of the records that we're dealing with weren't written by the subjects of those records and in many instances those subjects weren't very literate. Also, people were just more casual about spelling than they are nowadays. I've been working with a parish register in Mayo. The priest who wrote most of those most those records in the first twenty years was pretty inconsistent about whether to put an "O'" before Boyle. He nearly always spelled McNicholas as McNicolas. In one instance, instead of Salmon, he entered Psalmon. I have one cousin who doesn't believe that his Dacey and Kearny Relatives were Deasy and Carney in the old country. We have to keep an open mind. John F