I know in Athy, a little ways away in Co. Kildare. They burnt down the Catholic church (somehow the parish records survive after about 1750) They also cut off the heads of several men and threw the bodies into the river, which, very unscientifically, makes me think it was mostly an informal process.
I don't know whether it is coincidence or not, but there is a parish in Kerry that I am interested in, Killorglin and oddly the church records seem to begin in October of 1798. It really doesn't seem like a coincidence, since the rebellion officially ended in September. Though supposedly the church which was later torn down dated to about 1790.
