Kyte/Ryan/Mahoney from Silvermines

I too am looking for Kyte/Powers/Mahoney ancestors in Silvermines.  My husband is descended from John Patrick and his first wife Marguerite.  (I have Patrick Michael and Helen Mahoney as the parents of John Patrick.)  When we visited Silvermines a number of years ago, I had the opportunity to search the parish records but could not link our Kyte family and the Kyte family on the headstone.  The records did not go back far enough.  I also communicated with a member of the family on the headstone.  She also could not fill in the several generation gap.  I've attached a photo of the headstone and the Kyte home in Silvermines probably from the early 1900's.  

I've been told that Kytes from Silvermines also immigrated to Melbourne, Australia.  Possibly descendants in Australia will have some information.  

I have a lot of information on the Kyte family when they lived in Canada.  Are you and your husband in Canada?  We must be 3rd or 4th cousins.  I think John had 16 or 18 kids with Helen and Margeurite.  I have picture of the headstone also with my mother.  Her mother was Clare Winifred Kyte from Cape Breton.  Have you been to the graveyard in Cape Breton?  Lots of Kyte graves.  i have John Patrick's will that he left.  It was on file at the Richmond County courthouse in Cape Breton. How does your husband fit into the Kyte history? 

Sean Tracey

I am just learning that I descend from Kyte family in Silvermines Ireland.  Ambrose Kyte born about 1710 in Silvermines Ireland.  No information on his wife  or his death.  I descend from his daughter Maria who married Robert Powell.  She had two brothers Ambrose and Henry.  I have DNA matches with their descendants   Ambrose married Margaret Hill and Henry married Dorothea Carter.   Are there any records at the churches or courthouses or anywhere in Silvermines?  

When we visited Silvermines about 20 years ago, I was told in Nenagh that the records in that area had been destroyed during "The Troubles". I did find that the Catholic church in Silvermines did have birth, marriage and death records.  I don't remember how far back they go.  I didn't find a connection to my family.  A few years ago, Ancestry.com added Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915.  I did find one more generation in those records, but not in Silvermines.  In 2012, I corresponded with a woman with the Silvermines Historical Society who was researching the Kyte family in Silvermines.  They might be able to help you.