Being blocked from doing your own Irish research and forced to pay a researcher?

[Pastmagic]

Some earlier  Kilglass records here starting 1833 for births:
http://www.puregolduk.com/bren/kilglass_co_sligo3c.htm

Later....

Sorry, see you are interested in Kilglass C of I, not RC. I'll leave this here anyway, in case it is of use to someone else.

PM

[shanew147]

I think they might be RC records ?


Shane

[Pastmagic]

Snap! was just adding that, penny dropped after I posted...PM

[Marcella Paget]

Thanks all of you, especially Elwyn and Shane. That gives me a good start. One more thing I haven't worked out yet, when Presbyterians lived in Ballina, Mayo in the 1870's, where did they go to church?

[myluck!]

possibly in the current church which is on Walshe Street in the town and dates to the early 1800s

[aghadowey]

Ballina Presbyterian Church opened in July 1851 but the congregation started as a mission station attached to Killala when the first services wereconducted in 1835.

[Elwyn Soutter]

I found this description on line:

The church was founded in 1846. The church building, or meeting house, is located in Walshe Street, directly opposite the former Garda Station. During the Great Famine of 1845-49 and in the subsequent decades the premises were the centre of a great relief effort, co-ordinated by Rev Thomas Armstrong. The building to the left of the church was formerly an orphanage attached to the congregation. The church is T-shaped, a typically Presbyterian design. The congregation meets for worship in the upper storey of the building. The ground floor, once a schoolhouse, now comprises a suite of halls.