THE LIST of CHURCH OF IRELAND PARISH REGISTERS A Colour-coded Resource Accounting For What Survives; Where It Is; & With Additional Information of Copies, Transcripts and Online Indexes SEPTEMBER 2021 The List of Parish Registers The List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers was originally compiled in-house for the Public Record Office of Ireland (PROI), now the National Archives of Ireland (NAI), by Miss Margaret Griffith (1911-2001) Deputy Keeper of the PROI during the 1950s. Griffith’s original list (which was titled the Table of Parochial Records and Copies) was based on inventories returned by the parochial officers about the year 1875/6, and thereafter corrected in the light of subsequent events - most particularly the tragic destruction of the PROI in 1922 when over 500 collections were destroyed. A table showing the position before 1922 had been published in July 1891 as an appendix to the 23rd Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Office of Ireland. In the light of the 1922 fire, the list changed dramatically – the large numbers of collections underlined indicated that they had been destroyed by fire in 1922. The List has been updated regularly since 1984, when PROI agreed that the RCB Library should be the place of deposit for Church of Ireland registers. Under the tenure of Dr Raymond Refaussé, the Church’s first professional archivist, the work of gathering in registers and other local records from local custody was carried out in earnest and today the RCB Library’s parish collections number 1,114. The Library is also responsible for the care of registers that remain in local custody, although until they are transferred it is difficult to ascertain exactly what dates are covered. Where register collections remain in local custody it may be assumed that they carry on after the cover dates given in the List. Efforts continue to encourage local clergy and parishes to transfer non-current registers into the permanent custody of the Library. In the light of registers being transferred and new knowledge of copies and transcripts being obtained, further extensive amendment to the List was carried out by NAI, most notably by Ms Aideen Ireland, Senior Archivist. In a project devised and undertaken by Dr Susan Hood during 2014, the List was again extensively updated, and furthermore colour-coded and made available online for the first time through the Church of Ireland website. The colour-coded version of the List was subsequently updated in July 2015 to account for original registers for parishes in Northern Ireland held by the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast. Re-launched on the 3 August 2016, the List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers was definitively updated and reformatted with the inclusion of live links to online parish register sources by Claire Santry FIGRS as an 80th Anniversary Project of the Irish Genealogical Research Society: Ireland’s oldest genealogical society. This painstaking effort should significantly assist researchers providing them with an online search tool that links easily to online information. The list will continue to be maintained and updated on a regular basis as more registers are transferred to the RCB Library and in anticipation of further transcribing, indexing and ultimately digitization of records. Colour Code Symbol Key RCB - Original records held by the Representative Church Body Library, Churchtown, Dublin 14 * Copy of some records were extant in Public Record Office (now NAI). For details see NAI Reading Room catalogue PRONI - Original records held by the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast [total 74]. Additionally it can be assumed that PRONI holds while the microfilm copies of many collections for parishes + Copy known to be extant in local custody. For details see Appendix VIII to 56th Report of the in the nine counties comprising Ulster, and further information is available here… Deputy Keeper. It is possible that further copies may exist about which no information has been LOST - Parishes the records of which were lost in 1922, but for which subsequent materials were located and received by the Public Record Office, especially in lodged either in the RCB Library or PRONI. Normally this colour code is followed by an RCB library or the case of Northern Ireland parishes. Where PRONI entry. collections have been transferred to the RCB Library, these local copies have been integrated into parish collections LOST - Registers for this parish were in PROI in 1922 and were thus not saved T Part of the early collection are transcript copies, rather than originals (No colour) Parishes the records of which records remain in local custody. M Microfilm copy available in the Reading Room of For parishes located in the nine counties of Ulster, and additionally some for county Louth, microfilm copies the NAI only. See card index and bound diocesan th of most collections of surviving registers (up to the early 20 century) are available in PRONI. For details lists for further details. Note the dates of registers consult PRONI’s online catalogue: http://www.proni.gov.uk/ covered by the films may not be those of the originals as recorded by Miss Griffith, nor may they Note that local clergy in both NI and ROI are however obliged to make available original registers in their be the same dates as for those registers now custody available under both national legislation and in accordance with the Constitution of the Church of deposited in the RCB Library. In most instances no Ireland. filming was undertaken of 20th-century registers PROI - Parishes the records of which are deposited in whole or in part in PROI [total 9]. For details see NAI CE Indicates a Chapel of Ease Reading Room catalogue. These account for those ROI collections that remained in the custody of PROI after P Printed version of registers available 1922, and thereafter in the NAI since. NOTE: With regards to dates, cover dates only of registers in the three categories of baptism, marriage or burials, are given in the table. For parishes with churches still in existence it may be assumed there are current registers, and thus the last date indicated on the table represents the last date on which material was either transferred to the RCB Library, or microfilmed either by PROI or PRONI. It has come to our attention that a number of transcripts of parish registers in the dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, and of Limerick, together with odd miscellaneous parishes from other Church of Ireland dioceses, compiled by the late Michael Leader, a former vice-President of the Irish Genealogical Research Society, are available in the library of that society in London. For a complete list see IrishAncestors.ie. To draw specific attention to the odd items, we have noted them in the Comments section. Parish, Church/Chapel Diocese County Baptisms Marriages Burial Key Comments Aasleagh Mayo - 1859-1956 - x # Some coverage at RootsIreland.ie Abbey Kilfenora see Newquay. Also Kilculliheen and Macully in Waterford Abbeyfeale Ardfert Limerick 1829-1875 1843 1844-1877 Abbeyfeale Ardfert Limerick - 1845-1910 - Abbeygormacan or Boolagh see Kiltormer Abbeyknockmoy Tuam see Killererin Abbeylara Ardagh Longford 1821-1876 - 1828-1875 Some coverage at RootsIreland.ie Abbeyleix Leighlin Laois 1781-1877 1781-1956 1781-1911 Abbeymahon Ross Cork 1827-1878 - - x # M T Earlier records were destroyed in 1922. Transcript RCB PC 30 covers baptisms 1827-1873. Abbeyshrule Ardagh see Tashinny Abbeystrewey Ross Cork 1778-2001 1785-1956 1783-2001 M Abington Emly Limerick 1898-1992 1849-1942 1884-1984 M Some coverage at RootsIreland.ie Achill Tuam Mayo 1854-1978 1855-1999 1854-1994 M also see Burrishoole and Dugor. Some coverage at RootsIreland.ie Achonry Achonry Sligo 1909-1997 1845-1985 1911-1993 Earlier records destroyed in 1922. Some coverage at RootsIreland.ie Acton Armagh Armagh 1801-1876 1812-1845 1825-1877 Some coverage at RootsIreland.ie Adamstown Ferns Wexford 1802-1875 1802-1869 1814-1876 M + Adamstown Ferns Wexford - 1851-1968 - x # Adare Limerick Limerick 1845-2001 - 1845-2001 Some coverage at RootsIreland.ie Addergoole Killala M see Crossmolina Addergoole Tuam see Tuam Affane Lismore Waterford 1804-1876 1804-1856 1804-1878 Some coverage at RootsIreland.ie Agha Leighlin see Dunleckney Aghaboe see Aghavoe Aghabog Clogher Monaghan 1799-1877 1806-1844 1801-1877 Some coverage at RootsIreland.ie Aghabulloge Cloyne Cork 1796-1877 1808-1843 1809-1878 + Aghabulloge Cloyne Cork 1808-1877 1808-1843 1809-1979 T NAI holds copy of the some material. Aghacross Cloyne see Clenore Aghada Cloyne Cork 1815-1875 1815-1845 1815-1875 M See rector’s amendments to retention order for further details. Aghade Leighlin Carlow 1740-1877 1740-1856 1740-1877 Aghaderg Dromore Down 1814-1868 1815-1845 1815-1980 Some coverage at RootsIreland.ie Aghadoe Ardfert&Aghadoe Kerry 1842-1877 l842-1861 1845-1877 M Also some entries 1838-1842. Some coverage at IrishGenealogy.ie also see Killarney Aghadoey Derry Derry 1805-1881 1808-1840 1808-1881 Aghadown Ross Cork 1751-1765 - - 1799-1879 1782-1856 1808-1879 Aghadrumsee Clogher Monaghan 1821-1870 1821-1851 1822-1870 Aghagallon Dromore see Aghalee Aghalee Dromore Antrim 1782-1875 1782-1845 1782-1874 Some coverage at RootsIreland.ie Aghaloo Armagh see Caledon Parish, Church/Chapel Diocese County Baptisms Marriages Burial Key Comments Aghalurcher Clogher Tyrone 1788-1875 1788-1845 1788-1875 Aghanagh Elphin Sligo 1856-2002 1857-1837 - Some coverage at RootsIreland.ie Aghancon Killaloe Offaly 1870-1960 1846-1954