Location of Records

The Representative Church Body Library is the Church of Ireland’s principal repository for its archives and manuscripts, and holds records from over 1,300  parishes mainly but not exclusively in the Republic of Ireland.

Records from a small number of parishes in the Republic are in the National Archives of Ireland https://genealogy.nationalarchives.ie/  and the remainder are in the custody of local clergy.

In Northern Ireland most parish registers are available in copy form in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) | nidirect while original parish records are either in the custody of the local clergy or with a few in PRONI.  

Again the colour–coded list of parish registers will direct you to relevant locations: List of Parish Registers – Church of Ireland – A Member of the Anglican Communion