Alexander & Elizabeth KELLY HILL

Hi Dianne, I am looking over old queries and while yours if full of information the chance of pinpointing the area of Donegal at that stage, records from the 1700s are rare but exist in some instances if the religion is known, we rely heavily on church records at this remove and RC ones are rare in particular. I looked at the Tithe Applottments circa 1824 to 1838, a record of taxpayers who had land of more than an acre, link attached, not too many Hill and most in the Killybegs area on the Atlantic coast, once a large fishing port. 

https://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp&nb…;

Later in Griffiths Valuations of the 1850 there are a lot of Hills in Donegal, including a landlord Lord Hill, he may have been an absentee landlord.

In the Down Survey of 1641 there are a number of Hill names in Irleand, https://downsurvey.tchpc.tcd.ie/index.html ;

This site has free searchs of surname locations at various times, https://www.johngrenham.com/surnames/ ;

McLysaghts Surnames of Ireland says it is the 2nd most common name in Ireland, there are two septs (clans) both McKelly and O'Kelly with the prefix often dropped, both prefix depict son of.

Good Luck

Pat