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Irish records may be listed in the catalog under the country, county, parish, and city or town in which they were kept. Townlands or other small places are seldom included in a catalog listing. To find the county under which a parish or city is listed, use the see references on the first few microfiche of the Place Search for Ireland. Or type the city or parish in the Locality Browse screen of the compact disc version of the catalog. The computer will display the county under which that city or parish is listed. | Irish records may be listed in the catalog under the country, county, parish, and city or town in which they were kept. Townlands or other small places are seldom included in a catalog listing. To find the county under which a parish or city is listed, use the see references on the first few microfiche of the Place Search for Ireland. Or type the city or parish in the Locality Browse screen of the compact disc version of the catalog. The computer will display the county under which that city or parish is listed. | ||
Regardless of how a place-name may have been spelled at various times, Irish places are listed in the Locality Search of the catalog by the name and spelling that appears in the 1871 census as recorded in ''Ireland, Registrar General, Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland'' (Dublin, Ireland: Alexander Thom, | Regardless of how a place-name may have been spelled at various times, Irish places are listed in the Locality Search of the catalog by the name and spelling that appears in the 1871 census as recorded in ''Ireland, Registrar General, Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland'' (Dublin, Ireland: Alexander Thom, 1877); Family History Library {{FHL|39577|title-id|disp=book Ref 941.5 X22ti; film 476999 item 2; fiche 6020345-53}}; available online at https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/278510-redirection. This index is arranged alphabetically by the name of the townland, town, village, or place. | ||
A brief entry for each locality includes the locality's county, barony, parish, poor law union, area in statute acres, and reference for locating it on Ordnance Survey maps. | A brief entry for each locality includes the locality's county, barony, parish, poor law union, area in statute acres, and reference for locating it on Ordnance Survey maps. | ||