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Hi Shane,
I'm most grateful to you for your help. It sounds as if Ballinglen was not, as I had imagined, a place where the parents of James Mouls were well dug-in.
As regards his wife's possible preference for Rathdrum as a place she may have been familiar with, that's a likely factor. Her name was Elizabeth Murphy, and so far I've not tried to trace her birth (because of the surname being one that a lot of people shared). Given that Rathdrum is where she got married, she may well have been from there.
It's heartening to know that the Nationa Library has the records for Mucklagh. (Incidentally, I'm aware that in Co.Wicklow there's another Mucklagh, but it's in a more remote location, and I thought the proximity to Ballinglen made the more southerly Mucklagh a better bet.)
Again, many thanks. I greatly appreciate your response.
Best wishes,
Peter

Thanks, Shane.

I was hoping to trace William Mouls of Killaveney RC parish. The IFHF site shows there is a burial record for someone of that name in 1829, but it's in Co.Dublin, and his family seem to have still been in Co.Wicklow in the 1830s. So the Dublin burial is unlikely to be his.

My ancestor James Mouls was baptised (RC) in Kilaveney in 1801. His parents' address is given on the IFHF as 'Ballinglin' (not the usual spelling, I know).
How would I be able to find the townland where they lived? Perhaps this is the kind of thing the Wicklow Family History Centre could help with?
When he married, in 1834, it was in Rathdrum. His daughter Elizabeth was baptised in Rathdrum in 1845. But Elizabeth gave her birthplace as Mucklow [Mucklagh]. From a map of around 1870, Mucklagh seems very close to the railway station for Ballinglen. I'm wondering why James would have gone all the way to Rathdrum for the baptism, if Kilaveney was closer.