County Louth Ireland Genealogy Project

 

Church Records in Louth Ireland

Understanding Church Records and Parish Records In Ireland

There are three kinds of parish records in Ireland. The Civil Parish. The basic geographical units used by the government in early censuses, tax records and land surveys. Church of Ireland Parish Records. Catholic Church Parish Records. In the sixteenth century the Reformation came to Ireland. This caused the parish structures of the Church of Ireland and the Catholic Church to diverge. As a general rule the Church of Ireland retained the older medieval parochial divisions (Civil Parishes) wile the Catholic Church had to create new and larger parishes. Now because the Church of Ireland retained the older parochial divisions which were also used for administrative purposes by the government. The Church of Ireland Parishes are virtually the same as the Civil Parishes. On this page you will find a list of the 64 Civil Parishes in County Louth Ireland as they were in the mid 1800s and the 20 Roman Catholic Parishes of County Louth before the 20th century. For the Roman Catholic Parishes Information is given about the available church records for Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths.

Civil Parishes County Louth

Ardee ~ Ballybarrack ~ Ballyboys ~ Ballymakenny ~ Ballymascanlan ~ Barronstown ~ Beaulieu ~ Cappoge ~ Carlingford ~ Carrickbaggot ~ Castletown ~ Charlestown ~ Clogher ~ Clonkeehan ~ Clonkeen ~ Clonmore ~ Collon ~ Creggan ~ Darver ~ Dromin ~ Dromiskin ~ Drumcar ~ Drumshallon ~ Dunany ~ Dunbin ~ Dundalk ~ Dunleer ~ Dysart ~ Faughart ~ Gernonstown ~ Haggardstown ~ Haynestown ~ Inishkeen ~ Kane ~ Kildemock ~ Killanny ~ Killincoole ~ Kilsaran ~ Louth ~ Mansfieldstown ~ Mapastown ~ Marlestown ~ Mayne ~ Monasterboice ~ Mosstown ~ Mullary ~ Parsonstown ~ Philipstown ~ Philipstown ~ Philipstown ~ Port ~ Rathdrumin ~ Richardstown ~ Roche ~ Salterstown ~ Shanlis ~ Smarmore ~ St. Mary's, Drogheda ~ St. Peter's, Drogheda ~ Stabannan ~ Stickillin ~ Tallanstown ~ Termonfeckin ~ Tullyallen ~

Collon Church of Ireland Burial Register 1791 ~ 1823

Louth, Ireland: Parish and Probate Records

Search a collection of historical parish and probate registers from the county of Louth in the Country of Ireland. The 500 records in this collection range in date from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s. Some non-parish records may be included from as early as the twelfth century. Parish records--primarily baptisms, marriages, and burials--provide the best source of vital record information in the centuries before civil registration. The records include baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists, wills, and other miscellaneous types of records. Also included are some records from non-conformist churches.

Roman Catholic Parishes of County Louth

Most of County Louth is in the Armagh Archdioceses. Listed below, in alpha order, are the Roman Catholic Parishes of County Louth before the 20th century.  Information is given about the available church records for Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths. 

Ardee

Carlingford

Clogherhead

collon

Cooley

Darver

Drogheda

The Shrine of St Oliver Plunkett, Drogheda
y of each month at 7.30 p Further information may be obtained from r see under Patrick and the Saints above.

Dundalk

Dundalk Roman Catholic Burial Register 1790 ~ 1802

Dunleer

Faughart

St Brigid's Shrine, Faughart

Haggardstown

Kilsaran

Irish Records Extraction Database

Search the Parish Registers of Kilsaran, County Louth: Baptisms 1818-1840; Marriages 1818-1845; and Burials 1818-1900. The united parishes of Kilsaran and Gernonstown kept one set of registers. The parish church was at Castlebellingham, County Louth.The burial registers appear to include only some of the burials the in Castlebellingham parish churchyard and are not those in the Kilsaran graveyard. There are a number of tombstones in the Castlebellingham churchyard of persons not listed in the burial register.

Knockbridge

Lordship

Louth

Mellifont

Mellifont Old Cistercian Abbey (Tullyallen)

Monasterboice

Tallanstown

Termonfeckin

Togher

The History of Togher Parish

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