Need help finding Irish roots

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I am trying to find sources for 3rd great grandparents, James Quinn (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Quinn-8264) and Bridget (Mooney) Quinn (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mooney-3496).

Their children John, Patrick, Michael, Cathrine, James (my 2nd GP), and Bridget immigrated to the Illinois, US in ~ 1955, believe their are from Galway Ireland. John may be the oldest 1824 and Bridget the youngest 1839.  The children have one thing in common,  they don't report the birthdays accurately on the census forms.

I have tried using searches from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Sources-Ireland-Province-County#CONNACHT_Province, but having bad luck.
WikiTree profile: James Quinn
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If you allow for variations in the translation and spelling of names and nicknames and for people who neither remembered nor knew nor cared exactly when they were born, you will find several baptisms for this family in the registers of Tynagh parish at
https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0339

The following are well enough indexed at ancestry.com to come up in a search with judicious use of wildcards (father ja*s quin*, mother moon*y):

View Record     John Quin     Baptism     28 Apr 1824     Tynagh, Galway     James,
Biddy    
View Record     Michael Quin     Baptism     24 Jun 1827     Tynagh, Galway     James,
Bridget    
View Record     Kitty Quin     Baptism     31 Jul 1829     Tynagh, Galway     James,
Biddy    
View Record     Mary Quin     Baptism     31 Jul 1829     Tynagh, Galway     James,
Biddy    
View Record     Patrick Quin     Baptism     19 Mar 1832     Tynagh, Galway     James,
Bridget    
View Record     Marianne Quin     Baptism     10 Oct 1834     Tynagh, Galway     James,
Bridget

You may find others not so well indexed.
by Paddy Waldron G2G6 Mach 6 (62.0k points)
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