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Useful links for Vital records (BMDs)

Search our vital records (BMDs) to learn about the key events in the lives of your Irish ancestors: their births and baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials, and their wills.

Find out more about some of the key records included in this section:

• Ardagh Wills 1690-1857
• Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead
• Clonfert Marriage Bonds 1663-1857
• Clonfert Wills and Administrations 1663-1857
• Deputy Keeper of Ireland, Index to the Act or Grant Books, and to Original Wills, of the Diocese of 
  Dublin 1272-1858 (26th, 30th and 31st Reports, 1894, 1899)
• Farrar's Index to Irish Marriages 1771-1812
• Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858
• Leighlin Administrations 1700-1857
• Marriage Licence Bonds: Diocese of Cloyne 1630 - 1800
• Memorials of the Dead: Galway & Mayo
• Quakers Annual Monitor 1849
  Raphoe Marriage Bonds 1710-55 and 1817-30
• Register of Derry Cathedral 1642-1703
• Registers of the French Non-Conformist Churches Dublin 1701-1831
• Sir Arthur Vicars, Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810, and Supplement 1914
• The Parish Registers Society of Dublin: The Registers of St. Patrick, Dublin, 1677-1800, 1907
• Thomas Philip Le Fanu, Registers of the French Church of Portarlington, Ireland, 1694-1816
• Tipperary Clans Archive
• W.P.W. Phillimore & Gertrude Thrift, Indexes to Irish Wills 1536-1858, 5 vols (1909-1920)

Interesting information about these records

Our birth, marriage and death records date as far back as the 13th century (Dublin Will and Grant Books Index 1270-1858) and include records of over 400,000 gravestones and church memorials, over 150,000 newspaper obituaries and four indexes to wills. 

These vital records are the ideal place to start reseaching your Irish family tree.