Kilternan parish registers 1817–1900 transcribed and indexed: a new contribution from the Anglican Record Project

To view indexed transcripts click here. For the full list and onward links to all the parish registers digitized and available via the Church of Ireland website, click here

01 Feb 2015

The registers of Newtownbarry (Bunclody) Union transcribed and indexed by the Anglican Record Project now online

To access the registers, please click here. As the diocesan website describes it ‘Bunclody Union is essentially a picturesque, rural, farming parish, containing some of the finest land for growing malting barley in Ireland’ (see this link:

01 Jan 2013

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

Strokestown Records On–Line The RCB Library’s Archive of the Month for January 2019 presents the transcribed registers of Bumlin, centred on St John’s church in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, (now part of a group of parishes based on Boyle) together with the inscriptions on the monuments in the church and the surrounding…

05 Jan 2019

Strokestown (Bumlin) Parish Registers and Monuments

by Alan Moran & Mark WilliamsThe Archive of the Month for January 2019 presents the transcribed registers of the former union of Bumlin, centred on St John’s church in Strokestown, County Roscommon, together with the inscriptions on the monuments in the church and the surrounding churchyard. As…

01 Jan 2019

Anglican Record Project

How the project came about

I was born and brought up in Ireland (Rathfarnham Parish), but have lived abroad since leaving school nearly 40 years ago, mainly in England but also for short periods in Germany and France. I have been interested in tracing my family history since getting married and having children, but I wanted…

Anglican Record Project

The Anglican Record Project, which is the work of Mark Williams, is an ongoing endeavour to make the registers of baptism, marriage and burial from Church of Ireland parishes available in a digital format (ie as indexed transcripts). The Project feeds into the Library’s long–term goal of digitizing and indexing…

Parish Records

Many parish registers were destroyed in the fire in the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922. However the RCB Library now holds over 1,159 original collections of registers, many of them in the context of larger collections of parish registers. The definitive and colour–coded List of Church of…

CMS Ireland: Annual Project 2013

In 2013, CMS Ireland’s Annual Project will focus on Education in South Sudan – the newest country in the world. All Things New explores the importance of schools and…

29 Jan 2013

Report of Standing Committee Highlights Wide Range of Work and Projects

The report of Standing Committee was received at General Synod in Limerick this afternoon (Thursday May 4). The report outlines the work of the commissions and committees that operate under the remit of Standing Committee. It highlights the second Church of Ireland Census and the establishment of the Safeguarding Trust…

04 May 2017