Hi Robert,
Thank you very much for your message.
Do you know what age your grandfather was when he died? This will help narrow down his year of birth which will make it easier in terms of finding church/civil records.
Once you have a date of birth you could try looking for him in civil records which are available from the General Register Office. Here are their contact details:
General Register Office
Government Offices
Convent Road
Roscommon
Ireland
Tel:+353 90 663 2900
Locall:1890 25 20 76
Fax:+353 90 663 2999
Homepage: http://www.groireland.ie/
The indexes to these records up to 1958 are online. I did a quick search but without more information it is impossible to narrow down which are relevant to you:
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3Ajames~%20%2Bsurname%3Amahoney~%20%2Bbirth_place%3Atipperry~%20%2Bfather_givenname%3AJames~&collection_id=1408347
As you can see from the following Irish TImes links, Catholic records for the parish have a very early start date and some are available online. http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseaction=showidrecords&CityCounty=Tipperary%20South&parish=Carrick-on-Suir&churchid=1101
This will be of more use to you when you have narrowed down date of birth.
Once you have date of birth you could also try searching for the family online in the 1911 census records. If you can find them these records may give you some new information:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
Some other websites that you may find useful in your research are:
The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/
The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx
The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm
Irish Times: http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/index.htm
Irish Genealogy Tool kit: http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/
IGP: http://www.igp-web.com/tipperary/index.htm
South Tipperary Archives: http://www.southtipparchives.ie/
From Ireland: www.from-ireland.net
Genealogy links: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/tipperary/index.html
Irish Newspaper Archives: http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/
All the best,
Genealogy Support
