Hi,
I just had a look at your message so I went to the site to see what it was you were on about.
Yes this is correct as you said.
But if you look at Ballindaggin, you will see the Birth and Marriage books are not as the other books are. These only start in 1871.
These are pre-printed in Latin and so this was when the Parish Priests kept these books up to date and were viewed at by the Bishops to see how the Parish was thriving. The only early book I have seen like this was in Terryglass in Tipperary in 1829. Before then Parish books were only a record for the Priest and this is why they went missing when they moved Parish and Diocese.
I have corrected quite a few photo's of churches in family trees on different sites, also the spellings. Some have the new church with the old church date, so when I mention to the keeper of the tree they have both photo's then.
It was only after the 1830's that Catholic Churches were allowed to be built again. So it may be that the Church wasn't built when your people were born and the PP had to go from The Ballagh to Ballindaggin or the other way round and listed the names under their Parish, or as what will/would be the Parish.
I did ring the phone number for the Church, no answer, to find out when the church was built.
If you google it you can ring yourself. The Church is St Colman.
As far as you waiting for a reply from the NLI they are very efficient and will reply as soon as they have viewed the books and found the info.
I go to the Library in Kildare Street 2-3 times a year and having these records on line now saves a lot of time. Have you used the library to search?
You must go and see what it's like and let us all know what you think.
I am sure we will all be waiting to see your update on this.
If I am incorrect then I'm incorrect and I will learn from what you learn.
Keep up the good work
Maggsie