IrishGenealogy.ie
Irish civil registration images and church records, free and without an account. The single best free national source in these islands.
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/ ↗
Last checked 2026-09-16. Tell us if this has changed.
What it holds
RECORDED, NOT HARVESTED, and that is a weaker claim. irishgenealogy.ie sits behind a Cloudflare managed challenge that answers 403 to anything but a human's browser, so this list is written from the site's own published description of what it holds rather than read off the page. Treat the diocesan coverage as the shape of the thing and check the live page before relying on a specific year. See data/_declined.json for why it was not scraped.
- Civil registration of births 1864–
Index and register images. The open window rolls forward each 1 January under the 100-year rule. - Civil registration of marriages 1845–
Non-Catholic marriages from 1845, all marriages from 1864. Images under the 75-year rule. - Civil registration of deaths 1864–
Images under the 50-year rule. - Roman Catholic parish registers — Dublin, Kerry, Cork & Ross, Carlow
Baptisms, marriages and burials for these dioceses only. The rest of the country is at the National Library's register microfilms. - Church of Ireland registers — Dublin, Kerry, Carlow
A small survival. Most Church of Ireland registers burned in the Four Courts in 1922. - Presbyterian registers — a small number of congregations
The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1864–1922 United Kingdom — civil registration
- 1922–2026 Irish Free State and Republic in the south; Northern Ireland in the six counties — THE TRAP. On 30 June 1922 the Public Record Office in the Four Courts burned with almost every Irish census before 1901, most Church of Ireland registers deposited there, and the wills. Researchers are still told to «look for the census» — there is no census to look for. What survives is what was never sent in: the Catholic parish registers, PRONI's copies in the north, Griffith's Valuation, and the Tithe Applotment books. Start there, not with the census.
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