Category Archives: Directories

Further RC Parish Database Updates

Further options added to the parish database system – the RC parish details screen now shows distance and direction for the nearest Catholic parishes, to aid further searches when the required location might close to the boundary between two parishes. … Continue reading

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Search for Catholic Parishes and Chapels

Four options are available on this system to search for Catholic Parishes and Chapels as they were in the years just before the Great Famine. The details were compiled using Lewis Topographical Directory of 1837, and the Catholic Directory of … Continue reading

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Description of Bray 1869 (Thom’s)

BRAY, a maritime town in the barony of Rathdown, twelve miles S.E. from the General Post Office, partly in county Dublin, partly in county Wicklow, the river of Bray, here crossed by a stone bridge, being the boundary between the … Continue reading

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Advert for The Royal Marine Hotel, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin

From ‘1913 – Directory of Kingstown (Monkstown, Dalkey & Killiney) and District’ published by Talbot Coall & Son, Auctioneers, Estate Agents, Kingstown. (printed by Corrigan & Wilson, Sackville place Dublin)

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Catholic Parishes – 1848

Search for Catholic Parishes and their diocese and post-towns. The transcripts link to the directory images which also show the name of the Parish Priest and any curates assigned to the parish in 1848, along with the names of Bishops … Continue reading

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