Dear Barbara Re: your Kilmartins. I know you must have this info.already. In "Aran Reader", the chapter on Haddon and Browne, the constable collecting the info.about surnames definitely says the name was from Clare,and he was referring to the Kilmartins on Aran specifically. I'm fairly sure Peter Kilmartin ,b.1789,was the first Kilmartin on Aran. His wife Peggy was much older than him,and probably they only had the one child ,Patrick, Bryan's father. There are no other Kilmartins in the Aran records until Bryan starts having kids,so that suggests that he too was an only child,or else his siblings left the island altogether. Peter was a boatman by trade,so presumably he met his wife when he visited the islands. There was a regular trade in peat and livestock from co.Clare to Aran. In the 1821 he doesn't own any land,nor in the 1834 Tithes.It's not till Griffiths 1855 that his son Patrick is shown as a farmer. There are only 26 entries for Kilmartin in Clare,and the bulk of these are clustered in the townlands around Doolin,the ferry port for Aran. This is Killilagh parish.The RC records are Lisdoonvarna parish.They are not early enough to pick up Peter,but maybe some of Bryan's siblings went to the mainland to live.The parish register may well note that they were from the islands,as the Aran register usually makes a note of people from the mainland. Again,I'm pretty sure you must have been down this path already- but just in case.... Have a merry Christmas Cathy