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Catholic Parish Registers Geodata

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This repository contains geo-data concerning the National Library of Ireland’s collection of Catholic parish register microfilms. The data is used in the mapping features of https://registers.nli.ie/. The registers contain records of baptisms and marriages from the majority of Catholic parishes in Ireland and Northern Ireland up to 1880.

Data Resources (6)

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City parishes
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County boundaries
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Dioceses boundaries
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Parish boundaries
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Province boundaries
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Parish name variants
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Data Owner Email opendata@nli.ie
Theme Environment
Date released 2020-09-17
Date updated 2021-03-08
Dataset conforms to these standards Geojson
Rights notes Special thanks should go to John Grenham (https://www.johngrenham.com/) whose assistance throughout the Catholic Parish Registers project was invaluable. Some of the data in this set is derived from the Ordinance Survey Ireland Statutory Boundaries dataset (https://data-osi.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/nuts3-osi-national-statutory-boundaries-generalised-20m) which is released under the CC-BY license.
Update frequency Irregular
Language English
Landing page https://bitbucket.org/nlireland/parish_registers_geo_data/src/main/
Geographic coverage Island of Ireland