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Hi again Shanreagh,
Sorry - a typo -  omitted year of birth of Mary -  to clarify other points;
1)  Mary was born on 1/8/66. in Nenagh Co. Tiperrary.
2)  Date of Glasgow census was 1871, child listed as Mary Kenny age 4 (birth mistakenly listed as Glasgow Scotland - should have been Ireland.)
3)  Mary was always under the name Kenny or Kenney - never McNab
4)  Mary's parents Michael Kenney (cert. actually written as "Canny" but all else correct), and Jane McNab were married on 6th February 1866 in Templemore, Thurles Tipperary.
5)  Michael and Jane actually met in Glasgow Scotland in 1865.  Jane, her parents and her siblings had moved from County Tyrone in 1864, and they lived in the Gallowgate Glasgow - close to military barracks.  Jane and 2 of her sisters married soldiers.  Michael Kenny was born circa 1828 in Tulla Co. Clare, he was with 59th Foot Regiment which was stationed in Glasgow for a time, where he met Jane.  The Regiment went from there to Tiperrary, where he and Jane married.- He served a total of 18 years in India, East Indies, Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon..  before discharge on 18th December 1873.  He went on to marry Isabella Carter on 3/3/1874 in Limerick.  He and Isabelle sailed for New Zealand on 14/4/1874....  (and actually left a trail of incidents of petty crime  in NZ which makes very interesting reading).  In all of this there is never a single mention of the child Mary Kenny.  They go on to have one child in NZ,  - no descendants.    Mary's grandparents Francis and Mary McNab seem to leave Scotland fairly soon after their daughter Janes death in 1872 - no further records for them found in Scotland, but after much time found deaths for both of them in Omaha Co. Tyrone area - 1885 and 1890. 
Sorry, I told you it is a long complex story.  So many possibilities...

Hi Shanreagh,  Thank you for the offer, but I don't know whether you would be into what is a long complex story!    Quite some years ago, I did a lot of research on Mary Kenney (Kenny) and her parents Michael Kenney (Kenny, Canny) and Jane McNab (my great, great aunt).  Mary was born/baptised 1st August in Nenagh Co. Tiperrary, and also appears with mother Jane McNab and McNab grandparents in 1871 Glasgow census.    Her mother Jane had applied for Poor Law Relief, Glasgow in 1870,  but was refused as the child was not born in Glasgow. This is the last time I have any actual official documents mentioning the existence of Mary the child.   Jane then died in Glasgow in 1872.  Through all this the father Michael Kenney, an Irish soldier, is in India etc. etc.  He then goes back to Ireland, marries again, and migrates to New Zealand, dying there in Oamaru in 1890.   So to get to the point, I have failed to find ongoing records for Mary Kenney (Kenny) in Scotland, or Ireland, and she definitely did not go to New Zealand with her father.  Jane McNabs own parents Francis and Mary McCue  leave Scotland some time after 1873, (after ten very sad years in Scotland) and both of them, Mary's grandparents, died (1885 and 1890) in Omagh area Co. Tyrone, place of the family origin.  We had thought they could have taken the child with them back to Ireland, as no family available to help in Glasgow.... but there is no mention in their own death records of the child, in fact Mary's grandfather Francis McNab dies in the Omagh Workhouse.  Wow..... I wasn't fooling when I said it was a long complex story - and it could be a total waste of time for anyone to attempt further research!  Poor child Mary could have died, got married, migrated, ended up in a workhouse.... but "Mary Kenny" is quite a common name.   A true "needle in a haystack"!  so.... Thank you for the offer!!!!

Ooops - thanks also for the link re info about the Omagh workhouse...  will have a good look!!...

Looking for any info at all on Omagh workhouse late 19th century (know there seems to be no actual records re admissions etc).  In particular does anyone know if they would have had their own cemetery or use other specific ones.  Have been looking on "Find a Grave - Omagh" - and see that there are 41 cemeteries in Omagh.. some listed seem pretty old.  Any info welcome!!!

I was very interested to read a report of the discovery and exhumation of 1,700 human remains in Hobart Tasmania.  New works in Hutchins College a well known school's playing fields revealed the fact that what was previously known as an old cemetery area, had not been "cleared" as thought in the 1960's... and revealed quite murky practices in the cemetery in the early 1900s... Huge amount of work has been done with very inadquate records available, and a list of names is available at the following link https://www.hutchins.tas.edu.au/former-queenborough-cemetery-exhumations/    The actual story of the discovery and exhumations is on the following link https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/archaeologists-complete-largest-mass-exhumation-in-australian-history-from-old-cemetery-under-the-hutchins-school/ar-AA1vS3Is?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=810d2d0c4a6a4be38a17891ed4f24e85&ei=8     Thought this might be of considerable interest to some researchers.