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Wow!  Thanks Aughadowey,  I found the last child born to James and Rose O'Donnell McShea of Loughsalt on the link you sent, number 46.  Anna McShea, baptized April 2, 1877, sponsors Hugh (I think, hard to read and in Latin, perhaps you could have a go) and Anna O'Donnell.  Perhaps these are the parents of Rose, or her brother and his wife.  PRONI has a civil record for the death of Rose and her infant in 1880 in Meenacloghcor, so this is the first scrap of information I have that might help.

For Sarah, I send this information because this end of Lough Salt is a little cluster of O'Donnells, Brownes, Hanlons, McShees and Rogerses on the 1857 Griffiths.  The townlands there are Loughsalt, Meenacloghcor, and Tievegarvlagh which can be GoogleEarthed.

My mother recently told me that her mother paid the taxes on the McShea property until 1944 or thereabouts, until my grandfather suggested she stop.  Is there somewhere I could obtain that information?

Thanks again,
Kathy

Hey Sarah,
One other thing.  Family history has always stated that the records for my McShea/O'Donnell family of Meenacloghcor were  lost in a church fire.  I do not know which church, or even if it's true.  I have been trying to find churches in the Rosses that burned in their vicinity after 1880 or so. 

Hello,
I have located the home of my McShea (McShee) family on the Griffith's Valuation at the west end of Lough Salt in Meenacloghcor.  Heading west to Tievegarvlagh are various O'Donnell's and Brown's.  My gg grandfather, James McShea, was born 1839 and died 1914 in PA.  His wife, Rose O'Donnell (1840), died in childbirth in 1880 in Meenacloghcor.  James and their family emigrated shortly after her death.  The father of James may be John McShea, married to Ellen.

I am trying to determine who the parents of Rose might be, and if she had any siblings.  Based on the information surrounding your Helen and her location in this same spot, I am wondering if she might be an older sister to Rose.  The name Helen, or Ellen, or Eleanor, is quite common in my family.  One interesting note, there is a rare occurrence of an unusual type of red hair in my family.  I have concluded that it comes from the O'Donnell's, so this may be another clue.
Kathy