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Catholic parish registers for most rural areas were not kept until the 1820s or later. Records for urban areas started earlier. Each parish (a church unit with geographical boundaries) kept its own records. Catholic parish registers mainly include christening and marriage records. Few registers contain death or burial records. Occasionally a register will contain a parish census. '''[[Ireland Catholic Church Records|Read more...]]''' | Catholic parish registers for most rural areas were not kept until the 1820s or later. Records for urban areas started earlier. Each parish (a church unit with geographical boundaries) kept its own records. Catholic parish registers mainly include christening and marriage records. Few registers contain death or burial records. Occasionally a register will contain a parish census. '''[[Ireland Catholic Church Records|Read more...]]''' | ||
Catholic Church Records | |||
Roman Catholic parish registers for most rural areas were not kept until the 1820s or much later. However, records for urban areas often start earlier; sometimes much earlier and as far back as the mid-eighteenth century or occasionally before. Registers in the City of Limerick for example begin in 1745, the for Cork Cathedral in the 1766. | |||
Most parishes (a church unit with geographical boundaries) kept its own records, unless it was used merely as a worshiping chapel such as two additional chapels which stood within the boundary of the Newry (Co. Armagh) Roman Catholic Parish. | |||
Catholic parish registers mainly include christening and marriage records. Few registers contain death or burial records. Occasionally a register will contain a parish census. Read more...<br>Availability of Catholic Parish Registers | |||
At 3:30pm (Dublin time), on 8 July 2015, 98 percent of all Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Registers (which have been digitised) went online for public accessibility on the National Library of Ireland's website (click here for details for accessing them for free--[[www.nli.ie|The National Library of Ireland]].<br> | |||
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