Parish baptismal and marriage records back where they belong

I HAVE read with some astonishment and much disbelief the recent spate of letters to the Irish Examiner concerning the alleged movement of the Cloyne diocesan baptism and marriage records.

All the letters contain the same inaccuracies and misinformation.

As explained by Msgr Denis O’Callaghan (Irish Examiner letters, April 20), the parish records are the property of the individual parishes, and this fact pertains in all other dioceses in Ireland. They were microfilmed and placed for the benefit of individual researchers who would view them on a microfiche machine at the National Library (NL) in Dublin.