Address
Braemor Park
Churchtown
Dublin 14
Ireland
Telephone
353 1 4923979
Notes
The library holds the Church of Ireland’s main archive including original surviving parish registers of baptisms, marriages (including marriage banns) and burials. The archive also holds lists and biographies of Church of Ireland clergy, copy wills, pedigrees, vestry minutes and deeds. However, many original records were destroyed by the destruction of The Public Record Office in 1922.
A section of the website called Genealogy deals with and resources held at the library. Various online catalogues of their holdings are available. Staff do not undertake research but can offer advice and guidance. Some of the parish registers under the Parish Register Series and vestry minutes under the Texts and Calendars series have been published and are available to purchase. Raymond Refaussé’s A Handlist of Church of Ireland Parish Registers in the Representative Church Body Library is available to purchase from the library.
The library site offers digitized and fully searchable online editions from 1856 to 2010 of the Church of Ireland Gazette a small number of parish registers have been digitised and are available to view. The site also hosts List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers. The list of 1,110 parishes shows what parish registers survive and where they are held whether by the Library, PRONI or in local custody with the additional benefit of live links to online copies and transcripts. The library also holds ‘A Handlist Of Church Of Ireland Vestry Minute Books In The Representative Church Body Library, Dublin’
The Church of Ireland never represented more than a quarter of the population but between 1534 and 1870 it was the state religion and therefore non-Anglicans might have registered marriages and burials and documents such as wills.
