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Church Records in Ireland
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| The majority of
Ireland’s population has been Roman Catholic. Minority religions include the
Church of Ireland, Presbyterian Church, and Methodist Church. There were
also smaller denominations such as Baptists,
Congregationalists, Moravians, Mormons and others.
Microfilm copies of the parish registers for most Roman Catholic parishes in
Ireland up to 1880 are available at the
National Library of
Ireland in Dublin. Many Catholic parish registers are also on
microfilm at the
Family History
Library
in Salt Lake City. The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast
has Catholic registers for the Northern Ireland counties also.
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
No matter what your ancestor's religion
was, do not overlook the records of the Church of Ireland because it was the
Established (State) Church until 1871. Records of
the Church of Ireland are held in various repositories including the
Representative Church Body Library in Dublin, the
National Archives of
Ireland in Dublin, and the
Public Record
Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast. You can access
more information about using the Church of Ireland records online.
Very few Church of Ireland, Presbyterian or Methodist records are on microfilm
at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The PRONI in Belfast has copies
of many registers of Presbyterian, Methodist, and other dissenting
congregations. Some of the earliest Presbyterian registers for Northern Ireland
are held at the Presbyterian Historical Society in Belfast.
If you would like to determine what church records for a particular denomination
are available for the area where your ancestors lived, you can consult
The Irish Times Irish
Ancestors web site. On this web site, you can obtain information regarding
what churches or parishes are relevant and where the records are available, for
a particular town, village or townland in Ireland.
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| Two guides by Brian Mitchell are essential tools for locating what churches were
located in your area, for finding out what Catholic parish covered your civil
parish, and for discovering when the church records begin in your part of
Ireland |
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A Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards |
Guide to Irish Parish Registers
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The British Isles Vital Records Index (Second Edition) (Salt Lake City:
Intellectual Reserve, 2001) on compact disc contains data (dating 1538-1906)
from 12.3 million birth, christening, and marriage records from selected
parishes and areas in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Isle of Man.
The following church records for Ireland are included:
- Roman Catholic baptisms and marriages, circa 1789-1881,
primarily from County Roscommon, also some from counties Galway and Sligo,
including:
---> Galway parish: Killian and Kilronan
---> Roscommon parishes: Ardcarn and Tuamna, Athlone and Drum, Boyle,
Dysart, Killinvoy and Killmain, Killucan and Ballinameen (Killucan and
Killummond), Killukin, Kiltrustan, Laughlin, Lisanuffy, Loughglynn, Roscommon
and Kilteevan, Strokestown, Tissara
---> Sligo parishes: Aghanagh, Taunagh
- Births and marriages from the National Register of the
Society of Friends (Quakers) [dating 1859-1906]. These are abstracted from the
Family History Library Microfilm 571,399. If you
want a copy of the
original Quaker entry, ask us.
- Dublin City Presbyterian Church registers of baptism and
marriage, 1653-1904: (a) Eustace Street Presbyterian Church and (b) Strand
Street Presbyterian Church (Family History Library Microfilm 100238). If you
want a copy of the
original Presbyterian entry, ask us.
- A few births in Ireland (though it's mostly an English and
Welsh source) of children of Non-Conformist families from the Registers of Dr.
Williams's Library (London) (Irish births are primarily in the 1820s, 1830s).
Non-Conformist families are those who dissented from the Established Church of
England and Ireland.
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