Irish Churches And Graveyards New Genealogy Book

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A Guide to Irish  Churches and Graveyards
Brian Mitchell
Hardbound volume totaling
253
pages. Book is in excellent condition. Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
In Ireland, the civil      registration of births, marriages, and deaths began in 1864, and the      registration of Protestant marriages in 1845. Before this, church registers      have the only reference to an ancestor's birth, marriage or death, but      because of the destruction of many Church of Ireland burial records, and the      late beginning dates of many Roman Catholic and Presbyterian burial      registers, a gravestone inscription may be the only record of an ancestor's      death. Moreover, since gravestones frequently mention the person's residence      and age at death and the deaths of other family members, the location of      Irish churches and graveyards is very important to the family historian.
In this book every church and burial ground in Ireland is      identified in relation to a townland or street address. Each townland is      located in its appropriate civil parish, and each parish is listed in      alphabetical order in its county and is preceded by a number which gives its      location in
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. An Ordnance Survey      number lets the researcher pinpoint the church's exact location on a      six-inch Ordnance Survey map. Churches that are now defunct and graveyards      that have been separated from their churches can be located with this guide.
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