translating an entry on an irish birth record

[eadaoin]

When John got married he would have sent to Summerhill for a letter of freedom, the priest in Summerhill wrote the details of the marriage on John's baptism, when he checked that John was indeed baptised in his church.

It fairly common (but not common enough) to find marriage details on a baptism when the person gets married outside their own parish.

I think it also applies when someone marries in their own parish. (saves the P.P. trawling through his marriage Register, much easier to find a note in the Baptism Register)

I think it started in about 1908 - a ruling came from above (the bishops? the Pope?) that a note of every marriage in R.C. churches should be sent back to the churches in which each spouse was baptised.

[dathai]

Re John Mulhall and Mary Robinson.
priest wrote that Mary Corcoran was Mary Robinsons mother

also wrote that Cath or Kate Robinson was a witness

Catherine Robinson of Harpurs Lane died 23rd March 1934 age 70 a widow informant was her son in law John Mulhall of Harpurs lane.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1934/04847/4307945.pdf

Patrick Robinson married Catherine Murphy 1885
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1885/10876/5972597.pdf

and had daughter Mary in 1888
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1888/02504/1928734.pdf

1901
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Queen_s_Co_/Maryborough_Urban/Harpurs_Lane_formerly_Parnell_Row/1649606/

1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Queen_s_Co_/Maryborough_Urban/Maryborough__Part_of__Parnell_Row__formerly_Harpurs_Lane__/913783/

food for thought

edited to add Patrick died 1914 with Kate as informant
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1914/05294/4472050.pdf

[Maiden Stone]

eadaoin
I've just checked my English Granddad's parish register. You're correct that it included marriages of people in the same parish in which they were baptised. My parents' marriage was added to my mother's baptism entry.
In that parish at least, the custom wasn't always kept. No mention of Grandad's wedding on his baptismal entry, yet another wedding the same year (1913) was added to the person's baptism. Perhaps it took the priests a while to get onto the habit.