{"id":1891,"date":"2016-02-24T11:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T10:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swilson.info\/wp\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2016-09-11T12:24:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T11:24:12","slug":"show-list-of-all-towns-in-registration-district-or-p-l-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swilson.info\/wp\/?p=1891","title":{"rendered":"Show list of all towns in Registration District (or P.L.U.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new townland explorer<\/a>\u00a0may be used to show a list of all the town\u00a0within any Superintendents Registrar’s District, more usually referred to as Registration Districts. Civil records are indexed by Registration districts and these appear in the original National GRO BMD Index books and also the various online copies of the BMD Index.<\/p>\n

The Civil\u00a0Registration Districts were generally based on\u00a0the area covered by\u00a0the Poor Law Union of the same name and based\u00a0in a larger market towns. Initially there were 130 Poor Law Unions setup, although several were later created, e.g. Newport from Westport (later merged\u00a0back into Westport), and others merged into\u00a0adjacent\u00a0districts – e.g. Gortin into Strabane & Omagh. \u00a0Several registration Districts covered areas in more than one county, e.g. Athlone, Rathdown, Youghal, Cootehill etc. The list of towns included\u00a0can be useful in understanding the area covered by each district.<\/p>\n

The townland explorer can also be used to establish the Registration District for an individual townland or town – enter part of the townland or town name in the search field, using wildcards as required. The results can be narrowed down by filtering using the county dropdown. <\/p>\n

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  1. Open the New Townland Explorer<\/a> page, and tick the ‘Towns Only’ check-box
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    2. Select the Registration District or Poor Law Union from the dropdown list (type the first letter to skip to the correct part of the list<\/em>)
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    3. The towns included in the district or PLU are shown grouped by county, barony and civil parish.
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    \n4. The same process may be used to show a list of towns in a selected county or barony.
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    To search within civil parishes it’s best to narrow down the list by first selecting a county, PLU, barony or combination of these. The civil parish list automatically updates to show only the included parishes.<\/p>\n

    Once any selection is made\u00a0of county, PLU, Barony or Civil Parish, clear the ‘Towns Only’ check box to also show a more detailed list by civil parish, each of which may be expanded to show townlands, and towns included.
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    \nFurther reading :
    \n    Ireland: civil registration districts<\/a>\u00a0 from Irish Genealogy Toolkit (includes a map of districts)
    \n    Map of Poor Law Unions<\/a> (Registration Districts)\u00a0from John Grenham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The new townland explorer\u00a0may be used to show a list of all the town\u00a0within any Superintendents Registrar’s District, more usually referred to as Registration Districts. Civil records are indexed by Registration districts and these appear in the original National GRO … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,39,148],"tags":[212,211,166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swilson.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swilson.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swilson.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swilson.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swilson.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.swilson.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/www.swilson.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swilson.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swilson.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swilson.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}