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The 1901 Census has Patrick Downey  born in Co Kerry, i have looked in Kerry for a Patrick born 1863/1873 with a father Bartolomew none found, or any other children with father Bartolomew.

The place of death is given as Lugdoon, which is in Doocastle i expect its the same place as on the Census as no Lugdoon Townland shown in 1901-1911. he died a single man aged 85yrs. In 1956 a Michael Tivnan of Lugdoon advertised for sale an amount of Hay, this is most likely his brother, i cant locate a death for him. There is no death notice for Batty in Newspaper  and as the death informant is noted as a neighbour who buried him its unlikely he had family left in the area. There will be no roads or farm names, if you were contacting people even today you would just address to name, Lugdoon, Doocastle, Ballymote Co Mayo.

 If you Google Convent of Mercy Westport, you will find listed a Facebook page, you can click on the administrator  and read the comments from people that were brought up at St Columbias, even though this was from 1930's -1960's you can get a sense of the hardships they went through. The conditions when the Browne girls attended could only have been guessed.

Just for note the last part of the building in Westport is about to be demolished.  I have found during my research that families are often broken up after the death of parent usually the mother, the children normally are taken in by the mothers side, looks like Mary Kirby did have child Mary living with her at the time of death, i see there is a Headstone for Mary Kirby and her husband online  which is quite large, i imagine from this they were not poor.

Michael Murray married Mary Timlin in Ballina 1931, he would have been around 50yrs and Mary also from same place would be around 45yrs  Michael died in 1958. I cant see any obituary for Michael Murray.

 The death cert  will only show the birth date as given by the informant so may not be exact, thats if its on it at all. Have you done a DNA test may give you matches to narrow down your search.