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I am O'Donnell who lives in Australia.  My grandfather (born 1880 in New Zealand) told me many years ago that the family came from Clonmel, but I know very little else.  I assume that they left Ireland during the 1870s.  I do know that they  came to Australia when he was a child, so possibly around 1890s.  My father was an only child, and there were 4 daughters and one son in my immediate family, there are now two more generations of our O'Donnells here, and so far, no one has done any family research.  My husband and I visited Ireland briefly in 1980, but we were on a bus trip and did not have time to do any research then.
I would be very interested to hear if there are any records showing details of O'Donnell family members from the Clonmel area coming to this part of the world some time in the 1870s.