Ireland Catholic Parish Registers Free in March!

Ancestry.com has launched the Ireland Catholic Parish Registers online. With more than 10 million Catholic Parish records, this launch will help create the largest collection of Irish registers available online.

Best of all the records are free during March 2016.

Here's some facts before you start your search!

The collection means that Ancestry.com will have over 55 million Irish records and will provide the largest collection of Irish Catholic parish records available online.

The collection is made up of Baptism, Marriage and Burial records from over 1,000 Catholic parishes across the whole of the island of Ireland - both in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. 

Baptism and Marriage records make up the majority of the collection and Burial records can be found primarily for parishes in the northern regions.      


Ancestry.com has indexed records from over 3,500 parish registers. This is the first time that the collection has been indexed with the images linked online.