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The National Archives of Ireland began microfilming parish registers soon after independence. The LDS church did the same starting in the 1940s. Each tried to microfilm everything. Both entities ran into the same problems:
1. Despite exhortations as early as the reign of Henry VIII, few churches began keeping B/M/D rcds until the mid 17th century.
2. Of those which began keeping rcds, the earliest were in the urban and more cosmopolitan eastern counties. Of those which were kept, not all recorders did so all the time, and with a lack of attention to detail or a prescribed format.
3. Of those which were kept, not all survived. Ireland had various fits of insanity wherein sectarian partisans burned the churches (and towns) of their opponents.
4. More records were destroyed in the Irish Civil War.
5. Some records succumbed to natural disasters and neglect.
As a general rule, less than 5% of rcds from the 18th cent were kept, or survived.
In the 19th cent. people gradually started keeping rcds. By abt 1840 perhaps 50% of parishes, particularly RC, were diligently keeping B/M rcds. Death rcd keeping had a consistently low level of performance.
In 1845, the English Parliament decreed that Protestant church registration and/or civil registration be enforced. Civil registration for Catholics became mandatory after 1863.
For your 1804 rcd, the reason that you can't find it is likely because it either never existed, or didn't survive. In plain terms, it isn't there.
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