Parish Registers – Baptisms, Marriages & Burials, & Other Records, Catholic (Ireland)

Nature of Source

Records from Roman Catholic parish registers of baptism, marriage and burial.

Until 1869, the established church in Ireland was the Anglican Church of Ireland, a Protestant denomination. The Irish Church Act passed in 1869 (implemented in 1871) disestablished the Church of Ireland as the state church. During the 19th century, about 85 percent of the Irish population was Roman Catholic, roughly 10 percent belonged to various nonconformist denominations including Quakers, with only about 5 per cent Protestant (mainly Church of Ireland).

Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland parishes often had distinct names and covered different geographical areas. Use Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary to locate and identify a particular parish which is available online at Library Ireland. Additionally, John Grenham’s Irish Placenames provides a summary of research sources available for a particular parish including church records.

The anti-Catholic penal laws meant that the surviving registers are very incomplete with only about 20 per cent of burials recorded and are often difficult to read especially when written in Latin or heavily abbreviated. With the relaxation of some penal laws from 1760, the record keeping of the Catholic Church markedly improved. The introduction of dedicated pre-printed forms for registering a baptism or marriage from the mid-19th century resulted in the information recorded becoming more standardised and easier to read. A few registers date from late 17 century mainly for towns and cities where wealthier Catholics enjoyed greater religious freedoms. In poorer rural areas, the priests with little funding were un able to maintain the structures of a well-functioning church administration. It was only after the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 that many Catholic priests commenced keeping authoritative registers in more rural areas. The registers were kept and stored by the parish priest who often lacked the resources to adequately look after the books. Consequently some reregisters have been lost or destroyed. Fortunately the entire surviving collection of Roman Catholic parish registers were deposited with the National Library of Ireland who began filming the registers in the 1950s and are now available to browse online.

From 1908, the Papal decree, Ne temere, stipulated amongst other things that a solemnised catholic marriage must be recorded on the original baptism entry, therefore a Catholic baptism register should show all subsequent marriages.

Where Found

The National Library of Ireland
The library holds records of baptisms and marriages from the majority of Catholic parishes in Ireland and Northern Ireland up to the year 1880. Images of images of the original microfilmed documents are freely accessible online.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
PRONI holds microfilmed and original church records such as baptisms, marriages and burials for Northern Ireland parishes. The records also include also include vestry minutes and other parish-related documents.

Parish priest’s office
Original registers of baptism, marriage and burial are kept by individual parishes. Some parishes may also hold confirmation records. The registers may be written in Latin or English, depending on the parish.

Heritage and Genealogy Centres
Irish Family History Foundation. The Foundation coordinates 34 centres across Ireland and Northern Ireland. The centres hold a range of indexed and transcribed baptism, marriage and burial parish registers as well as many civil records, census returns and gravestone inscriptions.

Period Covered

1820 – Onwards

Genealogical Value

Baptism

• Name of child, date of baptism and birth, names of the father and mother and their home address.
• Mother’s first and maiden name is normally recorded and the names of least two Godparents.

Marriage

• Date of marriage.
• Names, addresses, ages, occupations of bride and groom.
• Names and addresses of at least two witnesses.
• From 1850 both parents’ names and their address are often recorded.

Burial

• Name of deceased, home address, including townland and date of burial.

Further References

Parish Specific

• Burn, John Southerden. The History of Parish Registers in England: Also of the Registers of Scotland, Ireland, the East and West Indies: J.R. Smith, 1862 (Available to view online or download at the Internet Archive. Also available to buy on CD at GenFair)
• Farrar, Henry. Irish Marriages: Being an Index to the Marriages in Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, 1771 to 1812: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2001 (1897) (Details all the marriage entries in Walker’s Hibernian Magazine 1771-1812 plus appendix by Sir Arthur Vicars of the births, deaths and marriages recorded in the magazine Anthologia Hibernica 1793-94)
• Grundy, Joan. A Dictionary of Medical & Related Terms for the Family Historian: Swansong Publications, 2006
• Mitchell, Brian. A Guide to Irish Parish Registers: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2009 (Limited preview at Google Books)
• Mitchell, Brian. A Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards: Genealogical Publishing Co, 2010
• Reid, Noel (ed). A Table of Church of Ireland Parochial Records and Copies: Irish Family History Society, 1994
• Ryan, James G. Irish Church Records: Their History, Availability and Use in Family and Local History Research: Flyleaf Press, 2001 (The book contains chapters by experts on the records of the eight major Irish churches including: Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Methodist, Quaker, Huguenot, Jewish and Baptist)
• Smyrl, Steven. Dictionary of Dublin Dissent-Dublin’s Protestant Dissenting Meeting Houses 1660-1920: A & A Farmar, 2009

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• Smith, Paul & Turner, Keith. Railway Atlas of Ireland Then & Now: Ian Allan Publishing, 2014

Websites

National Library of Ireland
Catholic Parish Registers at the National Library of Ireland. The resource offers digitised Catholic parish register microfilms with details of the start and end dates of the surviving records for every parish in its collection. The cut-off date for the microfilmed registers is typically 1880, though this can vary by parish.
John Grenham
Irish Roman Catholic records. The webpage provides detailed information about Irish Roman Catholic parish registers and an overview to the scope, access and availability of Catholic Church records. The maps section displays maps of Catholic parishes in Ireland showing all known copies of records for each individual parish.
John Grenham
Civil Parishes. The resource provides detailed maps and indexes of civil parishes in Ireland. Users can select a county and view its civil parishes along with maps showing the boundaries and associated townlands. Other maps include civil parish maps, Roman Catholic parish maps, Poor Law Union maps and more.
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Guide to Church Records. This guide is an easy way to identify what churches are in a parish, what records exist for each church, the covering dates for each series of records (for example baptisms) and their PRONI reference number.
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Ireland Information leaflet: Latin terminology In Roman Catholic Church registers. Information leaflet providing translation from Latin to English pertaining to church registers.
Irish Genealogical Research Society
Start Your Research: Church Records. The guide covers how to use church records for Irish research. It explains the survival and starting dates of church records in Ireland and covers all major denominations in Ireland including Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland (Anglican), Presbyterian, Methodist and other Protestant groups, such as Quakers and Baptists.
Irish Family History Centre
How To Search For Irish Birth, Death & Marriage Records. Learn more about sourcing records of births, deaths, and marriages in Ireland with useful historical information, free resources and expert advice to help you piece together your Irish family history.
Irish Family History Centre
Access Irish Catholic Parish Records Online For Free.
Irish Genealogy Toolkit
Roman Catholic baptism, marriage & burial records. An overview of Irish Catholic records.
Ancestor Network
Irish Catholic Records. The notes accompany an on-line presentation on ‘Catholic Church Records’ given by Dr James G Ryan of Ancestor Network.
Ancestor Network
Catholic Church records of Rathangan, Co. Wexford for the period from December 1807 to September 1811.
SWilson
The site offers free resources including:

• Catholic Parishes and Civil Parish Links – c1837
• Catholic Parishes – 1848
• Catholic Parish and Church Search by Location
• RC Parishes from list of Towns

Roots Ireland
Irish Family History Foundation. Church Records. Parish registers of all denominations are an excellent source of genealogical research as they contain baptisms, marriages and sometimes deaths/burials for all classes of the population.
Irish Geneaography
Irish Roman Catholic Parishes & Registers. Why is it important to understand the history of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland?
Timeline Research Ireland
Irish Parish Registers.
Free UK Genealogy
Irish Family History: Parish Registers. Nicola Morris explains how to research your Irish ancestors through the useful resource of parish registers.
ThoughtCo
Irish Catholic Parish Registers Online.
Irish Heritage News
A guide to navigating Northern Ireland’s church records.
Ireland Reaching Out
How to Research Historical Irish Church Records. Before you start your research in Irish church records, you must know the name of the place (town or village) where your ancestor lived and their religion. Parish registers were collected and remain at a local level, so knowing these vital pieces of information is crucial.
Ireland Reaching Out
Irish Parishes Explained. The Ireland XO website mostly reflects the structure of the civil Parish division in Ireland. This means that you must know your civil parish if you wish to join a parish community. But what do you do if you only have a Roman Catholic Parish name?
Ireland Reaching Out
How to locate parish of origin.
Ireland Reaching Out
What is a Parish?
Ireland Reaching Out
Ten FAQs about Irish Marriage Records. Did your Irish ancestor marry in Ireland? If so, the clues hidden in Irish marriage records can unlock the door to your deepest Irish roots.
Ireland Reaching Out
Researching Irish Burial and Death Records. How do I go about digging up my ancestor’s burial records? What can I expect to discover? What death records are online?
John Grenham
Dublin City Library and Archive Dublin Records: Dublin Graveyards Directory. The directory provides a searchable listing of all graveyards in the Dublin area and gives information on the location, contact details, titles of published gravestone transcripts, links to on-line gravestone transcripts, location of surviving burial records and other information.
From Ireland
Roman Catholic Parishes, 1836: Parish Index. This page features a list of over 1,300 record parishes from the Roman Catholic Parishes index of 1836.
FamilySearch Research Wiki
Ireland Catholic Church Records
The Churches of Britain and Ireland
The aim of the site is to have at least one photo of every existing church of all religions, denominations and sects in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands, and where possible, photos or artwork of churches no longer in existence.

Townland Resources
Irish Genealogical Research Society
Index of Townlands, 1901. The site offers access to the Index of Townlands from 1901. The index, published in 1904 by the Commissioners of Census, was created as an aid in processing the returns for the 1901 census of Ireland. The index provides an alphabetical listing of townlands and towns in Ireland, along with various administrative divisions such as parishes and electoral divisions.
Irish Townland and Historical Map Viewer
Tailte Éireann (formerly Ordnance Survey Ireland). The service allows users to view historical and townland boundaries and features for the island of Ireland on interactive maps. Enables fast search and pinpointing of particular Irish townlands, names and boundary features.
The IreAtlas
Townland database. Search of the IreAtlas Townland database. The results of a county or townland search show all the townlands within the requested county together with the barony and parish.
nidirect
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. In this section you can access lists of townlands arranged in the following different ways by county, by parish, within the estates of major landowners and alphabetically.
Irish Homelands
The website offers a tool for exploring Irish townlands. Users can access a detailed list of townlands and search by parish or county if you’re unsure of the townland name.
John Grenham
Irish Placenames. 1851 General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, parishes and Baronies of Ireland. Search the entire Index, together with street listings from Dublin, Cork and Belfast cities, more than 65,000 entries in all.
Irish Genealogy
Family Research 2016: Placenames. This article explains and explores how townlands and parishes got their names with links to useful resources.

Online Databases

National Library of Ireland
The database contains browsable images from the National Library’s collection of Catholic parish register microfilms of baptism, marriage, and death from the majority of Catholic parishes in Ireland and Northern Ireland up to 1880. The parish registers are searchable by parish and date, with images available for viewing using zoomable maps. The site does not provide full searchable transcripts, so original images may require careful reading and interpretation.

Findmypast

• Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1670-1900. The datasets contain over 40 million fully indexed names from over 1,000 parishes across all 32 counties of both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. The records are from National Library of Ireland’s collection of Irish Catholic Registers and are fully indexed with images to the original documents linked online.
• Fermanagh Parish Registers Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1660-1978. The record set comprises records from Aghavea, Bellanaleck, Devenish, Inishmacsaint, and Mullaghdun parishes in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Some of the townlands overlap into the nearby counties of Cavan, Monaghan, Sligo, and Donegal.
• Irish Catholic Church Directories, 1836-37. This directory lists all members of the clergy and parishes in Ireland for the years 1836 and 1837, as well as much of the Catholic hierarchy throughout the world.
• The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders: Lists of individuals of those who made claims for compensation for loss of property during the rising, and rebels who surrendered in Dublin City and Coolock Barony.
• Sinn Féin 1916 Rebellion Handbook Irish Times Weekly Supplement 1917. The database includes 1,306 casualties and over 3,000 rebels arrested and interned.

Ancestry

• Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915. This collection consists of baptism, marriage and death records from over 1,000 Catholic parishes across the whole of Ireland. While baptism and marriage records make up the majority of the collection, death records can be found primarily for parishes in the northern regions. The indexes to this collection have been created from digital images made available for free by The National Library of Ireland.
• Ireland, Select Catholic Birth and Baptism Registers, 1763-1917. This collection includes Catholic baptismal registers from 73 parishes in Ireland.
• Ireland, Select Catholic Marriage Registers, 1775-1942. This collection includes Catholic marriage registers from 62 parishes in Ireland.
• Ireland, Select Catholic Death and Burial Registers, 1767-1992. This collection includes Catholic death and burial registers from 19 parishes in Ireland.
• Ireland, Select Catholic Confirmation Registers, 1775-1923. This collection includes Catholic confirmation registers from 12 parishes in Ireland.
• Ireland, Catholic Qualification and Convert Rolls, 1701-1845. This collection is made up of both qualification and convert rolls. Convert rolls details the names of individuals who renounced the Catholic church in favour of the official state church of the Church of Ireland.
• Irish Records Index, 1500-1920. Search an index of microfilmed documents held by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The original collection includes histories, pedigrees, parish registers, probates, and orphan’s court records and were originally donated to the government by members of the public following the fire at the Dublin Record Office in 1922.
• Index to Irish Marriages, 1771-1812. Search Farrar’s Index to Irish Marriages as found in Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, first issued in 1771 and discontinued in 1812.
• Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911. This database is an index containing details extracted from a variety of Irish birth and baptism records housed in various repositories throughout Ireland.
• Ireland, Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911: The database is an index containing details extracted from a variety of Irish church, civil and other records of births housed in various repositories throughout Ireland.
• Crusheen, County Clare, Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1860-2014. This collection includes baptism, confirmation, marriage, and burial registers from the Catholic parish of Crusheen in County Clare, Ireland.
• UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current. This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave by volunteers who upload images of grave markers from around the world as well as photos, biographies and other details.
• Irish Catholic Parish Records 1742-1884: Catholic parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials containing indexed images of baptismal registers from Roman Catholic parishes in Ireland.
• Sinn Féin 1916 Rebellion Handbook Irish Times Weekly Supplement 1917. The database includes 1,306 casualties and over 3,000 rebels arrested and interned.
• Irish Records Extraction Database. This collection is the result of many years of research in Irish records compiled by Dr. Lyman Platt from over 120 unique sources. It contains records of births, marriages, deaths, burials, cemeteries, wills, immigration and census from as early as 1600 and as late as 1874.

Irish Genealogical Research Society

• Early Irish Birth, Marriage & Death Indexes. The transcribed indexes cover the period 1660 to 1863 for the period before civil registration was fully implemented in Ireland in 1864. The sources used include newspaper announcements, Registry of Deeds in Dublin, Chancery Bill extracts, family bibles, military records, old age pension claims and many others.
• Clanchy Marriage Index. Search an extensive Card Index of marriages gleaned from some of the Society’s unique manuscript collection and pedigree files. The index covers the entire island of Ireland.
• Roman Catholic parish of Ennis (alias Drumcliff), Co. Clare-Baptisms.
• Roman Catholic parish of Ennis (alias Drumcliff), Co. Clare-Marriages.
• Index to the Census of Roman Catholic Parish of Ballymena, Co Antrim, c1887. The membership register notes only the parish’s RC inhabitants and is arranged by street address or townland.

Ulster Historical Foundation
The Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 1956, dedicated to those researching the history and genealogy of Ulster and its families. The site offers access to over 2 million searchable records including:
Irish Birth/Baptism Records, counties Antrim and Down, c. 1660-1930.
The database contains:

• Virtually all Roman Catholic registers of baptisms for Counties Antrim and Down prior to 1900, and an increasing number of Catholic baptisms for 1900-1930.
• A large number of Protestant (especially Church of Ireland) registers of baptisms for Counties Antrim and Down.
• Civil birth records for much of Belfast.

Irish Marriage Records, counties Antrim and Down, c. 1660-1930.
The database contains:

• Virtually all civil marriage records for Counties Antrim and Down 1845-1921.
• Virtually all Roman Catholic registers of marriages for Counties Antrim and Down prior to 1900, and an increasing number of Catholic marriages for 1900-1930.
• A large number of Protestant (especially Church of Ireland) registers of marriages for Counties Antrim and Down.

Irish Death/Burial Records, counties Antrim and Down, c. 1660-1998.
The database contains:

• Virtually all Roman Catholic burial/funeral registers for Counties Antrim and Down prior to 1900, and an increasing number of Catholic burials for 1900-1930.
• A large number of Protestant (nearly always Church of Ireland) registers of burials for Counties Antrim and Down.
• Burials in Belfast City Cemetery from 1869 onwards.

Ulster Historical Foundation

• Roman Catholic Baptisms, 1884-1930. This database includes records for Downpatrick, St Brigids Belfast, St Peters Belfast, St Patricks Lisburn.
• Roman Catholic Irish Marriage Records, 1891-1930. This database includes records for Downpatrick, St Brigids Belfast; St Peters Belfast; St Patricks Lisburn.
• Roman Catholic Baptisms, 1867-1929. This database includes records for Sacred Heart Parish, Belfast; Hannahstown, Co. Antrim; Holy Cross, Belfast.
• Burials in Milltown Cemetery Public Ground, Belfast, 1869-1895. Milltown Cemetery, located on the Falls Road in Belfast, is the main Roman Catholic cemetery in Belfast.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Name Search: Datasets include:

• 1740 Protestant Householders Census. Surviving fragments of census of Protestant heads of households relating to the Hearth Tax returns in 1740 in parts of counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Donegal, Londonderry, and Tyrone.
• 1766 Religious Census Returns Listing of heads of households of Protestant and Roman Catholic families in over 30 parishes in Ulster and other parts of Ireland.
• 1775 Dissenters’ Petitions. Petitions from Protestant dissenters (mainly Presbyterians and Roman Catholics) seeking legal rights from discriminations under Penal Laws.

Irish Genealogy
The site offers free access to historic birth, marriage and death record indexes and images including: Transcripts of the baptism and marriage records of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kerry to c. 1900and all Roman Catholic baptism, marriage and burial registers for Dublin City.
MyHeritage
Irish Church Records-Roman Catholic Church.
The Genealogist
Irish Catholic Parish Record Collection. Search records of Catholic baptisms, marriages and burials from parishes including Wexford and the county of Carlow. Each result has a link to view an image of the original page of the Catholic parish register on the National Library of Ireland’s website.
Roots Ireland
Irish Family History Foundation. The site offers a unique database of more than 22 million Irish records from 34 county genealogy centres on the island of Ireland. The main sources on the site are Irish Catholic and other church records of baptisms, marriages and deaths. The site also features Census Records, Gravestone Inscriptions, Griffith’s Valuation for Ireland, Irish Ship Passenger Lists and Census Substitutes for Ireland.
Emerald Ancestors
Northern Ireland Ancestor Search. Emerald Ancestors provides instant access to one of the largest collections of Northern Ireland genealogy records available, containing birth, marriage, death and census records for over 1.5 million Irish ancestors.
Ancestry
Belfast, Northern Ireland, The Belfast Newsletter (Birth, Marriage and Death Notices), 1738-1925. Notices were primarily from Protestant denominations, particularly Church of Ireland, Presbyterian and Methodist families. Catholic notices appeared in later years.
Dublin Cemeteries Trust
Search fully transcribed and digitised burial registers covering Dublin’s Glasnevin cemetery, the largest nondenominational cemetery in Ireland, opened in 1832. Also covered the cemeteries Goldenbridge, Palmerstown, Dardistown, or Newlands Cross from 1828 to the present day.
Interment.net
Search transcribed entries from the Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, containing graves of over 1.2 million people. It opened in 1832 and is the largest nondenominational cemetery in Ireland, originally named Prospect Cemetery. More transcripts with headstone photos can be found at the Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives.
BillionGraves
Billion Graves is the world’s largest resource for searchable cemetery data providing transcribed records and images from the world’s cemeteries. Members of the public can collect photos of headstones in a local cemetery and then upload the photo and headstone transcription. The records are available at Findmypast covering England and Wales and other partner sites MyHeritage and FamilySearch.
Everafter
The site offers transcribed cemetery and burial records and monumental inscriptions with photographs of graves or headstones available for many entries. Country coverage includes England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, Ireland as well as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. The site has interactive cemetery maps to locate and view exact burial sites.
Ancestry
Irish Records Index, 1500-1920. This database is an index containing a wide range of Irish historical records held at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The index includes details such as name, date, residence and item numbers drawn from Farrar’s Index to Irish Marriages 1771-1812 as found in Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, first issued in 1771 and discontinued in 1812, histories, pedigrees, parish registers, probates, and orphan’s court records.

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