The Representative Church Body Library is the official archive for Church of Ireland records that survived the burning of the Public Record Office in 1922. The Irish Genealogy website has Church of Ireland registers online for Dublin City, Kerry and Carlow.
Last checked: November 2026. Every fact below links to the official page it came from. This page gives no fees or waiting times; follow the links for those.
What Church of Ireland records are online?
Irish Genealogy has all surviving Church of Ireland baptism, marriage and burial registers for Dublin City and for County Carlow, mostly as transcripts with record images to about 1900. For County Kerry it has transcripts with record images for all surviving 19th-century marriage, baptism and burial records. Source: Irish Genealogy: record sources.
Where are the rest?
The Representative Church Body Library holds the records that survived the 1922 fire, and all are searchable if they are not too fragile to handle. It also has digitised parish registers on the Anglican Records Project. RootsIreland.ie includes transcripts of Church of Ireland, Methodist and Presbyterian registers for some counties.
What about Presbyterian records?
A small number of Presbyterian records for a congregation in Lucan, County Dublin, are on Irish Genealogy as transcripts only. The Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland has records, but most are only available locally.
Quaker and Jewish records?
Quakers in Ireland have comprehensive records back to the 17th century, with microfilm at the National Library of Ireland and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Irish Jewish Roots has a large collection of Jewish records online.
What if my family was in Northern Ireland or a border county?
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland has freely available microfilm of almost all surviving records of all denominations for areas now in Northern Ireland. It also holds records for the border counties of Donegal, Cavan, Leitrim, Monaghan and Louth.
Common questions
Why are so many Church of Ireland records missing? The Public Record Office was burned in 1922. The Representative Church Body Library is the official archive for the Church of Ireland records that survived.
Are Presbyterian records online? Only a small number, for a congregation in Lucan, County Dublin. Most Presbyterian records are only available locally, according to the Irish Genealogy website.
More from us on this
- Irish parish records guide
- Step-by-step guide to tracing your Irish roots
- Finding your Dublin ancestors
This page is part of Irish family records by county.