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Thanks Treacy, any information will be welcome. As I said in my earlier reply/post I have the baptisms for Bridget's younger siblings, Mary Anne and Felix in Glendalough. In fact I was in Glendalough just a few weeks ago but did not have this information then, pity!
 I am keen to find baptisms for the other children, Winifred, Bridget and Hugh.
Also want to find the marriage record for Patrick and Esther (Byrne) Lacey in Wicklow, although I am now suspecting they may have lived elsewhere before Glendalough- perhaps the older children were born/baptised elsewhere.There are some Lacey/Leesy people near Aughrim (Rathdrum parish).
I have the BYRNE connection on both sides and am keen to also find out if Esther Byrne is related to my other Byrne side.
While Bridget married William Byrne here in Adelaide they went across to WA where they are buried.
Keep in touch. Kay

Hi Kay, I'd be interested in sharing info - I have a Hugh Leesy baptised in Glendalough on 07/09/1939, son of Patt L. & Bridget Byrne. Sponsors Leonard & Mary Nash.
Best, Mad 

Well, whether it has anything or nothing to do with my own family, that was fun..

Meath Heritage: *Baptism of Joseph Downes in the parish of Monalvey Kiltale on 20 May 1847. Parents Christopher & Margaret (Mooney), sponsors Owen Delaney & Mary Mooney.
I've found 6 siblings - 2 Marys and 2 Patricks (earlier infants presumably died), Rose and Christopher.

Found in Dod’s Peerage: Sir Joseph Downes, son of Christopher Downes, farmer of Kiltale, Trim, co. Meath, and Margaret, dau. of Patrick Mooney of Trim; born 1848*; married   (1) 1884 Teresa (d.1904) dau. of Dennis Carton of Dublin (2) 1909 Joanna, dau. of Thomas Davy of Newtown, Tipperary and widow of Ald.  James Hennessy of Palmerston Road, Dublin; ed. at Kiltale and Trim; is in business as a merchant baker and confectioner in Dublin; JP Dublin, Sherriff 1900. Residence: South Hill, Milltown, co. Dublin.

Voilà:

From our family website https://sites.google.com/site/downesofdublin/home

III. Catherine Downes born 26 March, 1872 in Cloghran, Dublin, Baptised 02.04.1872 in the parish of Swords. Birth sponsors: John & Eliza Sharkey. Catherine died 17.12.1887 in Meath Hospital, Dublin
IV. Harriett Downes born 19 June 1874 in Windmill Hill, near Killenard, Maryborough, Queen's Co. Died 8.10.1883 in St Michael’s Hospital Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) of pneumonia.

The Misses Downes: Harriet, Killester 1847, 1848 & 1850; Charlotte, 15, The Crescent, Clontarf, 1848;
Pettigrew’s 1847 lists Miss Downes, Killester
Misses Downes, 33 Charles street, Great (Lewis 1850)

Patrick Downes, Stockhole, Cloghran will 1837; lease 1925

Wilsons 1830
 Downes and Sons, Grocers, 80, low. Camden-slreet. , ^ Downes (Eliza) Printer and Stationer, 2, Whitefriar-streeU Downes (J.) Perfumer, 38, Nassau-street. Downes (Maria) Stay and Corset-maker, 29, Aungtefstreet.: Downs (John) Mineral-water-manufacturer, 11, Crampton-coua-t.

Various Downes in Treble Almanac 1804, 1822 and 1832

1912   Joseph Downes   Strand House STRAND ROAD   Inhabitant or ratepayer   [No division recorded]   Clontarf East

I am researching my DOWNES family, William (a gardener) and Mary Downes (née Quigley, born in Athy), who married in Booterstown, presumably where Mary was then based.

They then lived in Clontarf and Killester, from at least 1824 to at least 1840, according to birth records of the 7 children. The youngest, my great-grandfather Thomas was born in Black Quarry, Several of his sisters were born in Seafield Avenue. Killester was the address given for one of the sons who died in 1840. All indications suggest the family was RC. There were a few Downes in north Dublin at the time and I wonder whether my William was connected to them. The whole family decamped at some point to Athavallie, Mayo, where Wm & Mary are buried. One of Thomas's children was born in Cloghran.

Over the years, the same Downes names have kept appearing in connection with Clontarf, especially the Misses Charlotte and Harriett Downes. Charlotte seems to have owned 15, The Crescent in 1848 (and was Abraham Stoker Sr’s landlady), and Harriett owned or let properties in Killester between 1847 and 1854. Between them, they seem to have inhabited and/or let out various north Dublin houses.

I have found no BMD or will records for these 2 ladies, nor have I been able to find property records apart from the Griffith’s entries. They may have been absentee landladies, but research in UK registers hasn’t turned up anything either. At a guess, I’d expect the Misses Downes to have been COI.

I’d like to eliminate them from my research, but don’t know where to go from here.