NLI now has Tipp/Limk parish registers for public viewing

smcarberry · Post by **smcarberry** » Sat May 31, 2008 4:56 pm

Some good news, sent to me by Dennis Ahearn, a Boston (Mass.) genealogist.

Sharon Carberry

COUNCIL OF IRISH GENEALOGICAL ORGANISATIONS

30th May 2008

'National Library has re-opened Roman Catholic parish registers for
Cashel & Emly, Cloyne and Kerry'

The National Library of Ireland has finally re-opened public access
to the microfilms of the parish registers of the 'closed' dioceses of
Cloyne, Kerry & Cashel & Emly. For the past 16 years there has been
no public access at all to the microfilms of the registers from the
diocese of Cashel & Emly and only limited access to those for Kerry
and Cloyne. The issue of access to the microfilms for these dioceses
has been a hot issue for many years now and is one that CIGO has
raised previously with the Library. The `re-opening' of these
microfilms after all these years is terrific news for those who are
searching for Catholic ancestors in County Kerry and parts of
Counties Tipperary, Limerick and Cork.

You can read more about this story at http://www.cigo.ie/news.html.