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I received a book in the post yesterday called Tracing your Cork Ancestors (ISBN 0950846686) which might be helpful for tracing the Dineens further back. In it I found that the Catholic parish registers for Ballymartle are held on microfilm at the National Library of Ireland. Unfortunately I checked the NLI website and found that the Ballymartle registers only started in 1841, by which time the Dineens had left Ireland and were in Caerleon.

Apparently the Ballymartle events are contained in the register for the Ballingarry in the diocese of Clontead on film P. 4801. The NLI says:

This is part of an old register found in a hole in the wall of a ruined church near Ballingarry, Belgooly parish. The register was that of Fr. Dominic O’Gara, OP, PP Clontead, 1808-1937. It was filmed from an original held in the Cork & Ross Diocesan Archives. Many of the pages are in poor condition,with frayed edges, etc. and are out of date sequence.

It contains Ballymartle baptisms between Nov. 20, 1841 - Dec. 12, 1859 and Jan. 1, 1879 - Dec. 26, 1880 and marriages between Aug. 28, 1841 - Jan. 12, 1860 and Jan. 30, 1879 - Oct. 30, 1880