Here’s my next - and perhaps last - question.
We haven’t yet traced Catherine Ward Fallon, wife of Loughlin/Laughlin according to one birth record.
It is more than one birth record.
First though I need to comment on parish names. The NLI on its parish registers website has a dreadful habit of using archaic rather than current names for the Catholic parishes. Makes things very confusing when trying to compare with present day churches/parishes, which in the main are the same parish, but not necessarily the same name as the NLI use.
So with that general comment, what the NLI call the parish of Killenvoy is apparently more commonly known as Knockcroghery today.
RoostIreland indexing shows two Fallon baptisms in the parish of Knockcroghery (Killenvoy) with mother Catherine Ward:
Mary Fallon, baptized 6/8/1841, parents Malachy Fallon and Catherine Ward, and
Patrick Fallon, baptized 23/1/1847, parents Laughlin Fallon and Catherine Ward
These baptisms prove two things:
First, Gaffy is correct that Malachy is transmutable to Laughlin, but also
Second, there were two Malachy Fallons in the same parish, having children at the same time.
Note that the Killenvoy/Knockcroghery parish registers only start in July 1841, the month before the baptism of Mary Fallon, so there could easily be earlier children.