Baptism and Marriage registers for Ballyoughter area
The National Library of Ireland (NLI) hold a collection of Catholic parish registers for births and marriages in microfilm format. The recording process took 20 years to complete from its commencement in the early 1950s. The work was carried out by the NLI with the permission of the Catholic hierarchy.
The records for Ballyoughter Parish list baptisms from 30th September 1810 to 27th December 1880 with a gap in the records between 1st January 1812 to 5th August 1815. Marriage records are from 5th August 1815 to 25th November 1880.
Civil registration of baptisms and marriages began in 1864 but were not accurately recorded on a nation-wide basis until 1880. From this date, it was no longer necessary to microfilm the parish registers.
The importance of the registers cannot be overstated as they are, in most instances, the only primary source of history for family research before the census of 1901 due to the loss of most earlier census data.
Search the Ballyoughter Catholic Church records of baptisms and marriages on the NLI website.
The Representative Church Body (RCB) Library is the official archive of record for Church of Ireland records that survived the fire in the Public Record Office in 1922.
A major initiative of the RCB’s Library is the Anglican Record Project. This team on this project is currently digitising the registers of baptism, marriage, and burial from Church of Ireland parishes. At the time of publication of this website, the Church of Ireland records for the Ballyoughter area are not available online but those records that are available may be viewed in person unless the document is too fragile. You may check on the projects’ progress on the Representative Church Body website.