Hi again aghadowey,
No, these weren't sent to the four courts as they weren't formal state records. The EC records, like the school rolls keep turning up with a bit of effort / luck. I wrote a piece for a journal (Genealogical Society) over here on the school rolls and the different places I found them and it would drive you mad. Some were still in the long-closed schools, some held in libraries, some kept by retiring schoolteachers as mementos, some in the national archives - I could go on.
For the RC records in this case, the Kilconickny (the local RC church) records are officially lost, however I've pieced together bits and pieces (from various sources) which can act as a substitute and I strongly suspect they survive somewhere in the extensive estate records of the Dunsandle Dalys (some of these records are in the National University of Ireland, Galway; some in the National Library being catalogued as we speak, and some other bits here and there) or in the records of the EC or in some Dublin repository.
On the wider genealogical picture, I think we're moving into an era with a greater appreciation over here for conservation and I expect to see more and more little nuggets being unearthed. Its happening already (old maps, local graveyards being quietly digitised, family records being made available), its just not being highlighted / catalogued yet. I live in hope :-)
S.
