Searching for your Ancestors?

Here is a list of registers etc. for Presbyterian congregations in County Cork and other areas kept at:

63 Rochestown Rise, Cork   

Tel: 00353 (0)21 4891437 

pcitrinitycork@eircom.net  

Access may be arranged by prior arrangement.  Research can also be undertaken for overseas enquirers.

There is no schedule of fees but it is suggested that donations be made to church funds according to the scale of research carried out.

Other minute books for Cork, Trinity are held by the 

Presbyterian Historical Society, 

Church House 

Belfast 

BT1 6DW  

Tel: 01232 322284

Enquiries about documents concerning ‘The Old Presbyterian Church’ Princes St. should be made to Dr Martin Pulbrook, ‘The Walnuts’ Enniscoffey, Mullingar 044 22660 This congregation originated in 1715 and sometimes known as ‘The Unitarian Church’ is part of the Non Subscribing Presbyterian Church in Ireland, a separate denomination from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. 

All the congregations listed below are/were part of the the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

Aghada/Rostellan
Baptism see Queenstown
Marriage (Rostellan) 1893 (Aghada) 1965 (x2)

Bandon
Baptism 1842-1957
Marriage 1845-1948

Cahir
Marriage 1939-1956 1961 (x2)

Clonakilty
Baptism & Communion 1865-
Marriage 1863-1911

Clonmel
Accounts
Baptism 1833-1868
Marriage 1846-1880
Minutes 1953-65

Cobh see Queenstown

Cork, Scots’/Queen St.
Baptism 1831-1929 (bound in with marriages 1840-46)
Marriage 1840-1846 (including baptisms 1831-1928) 1847-1870, 1870-1928

Cork, Trinity
Baptism 1861-
Communion 1925-1935
Marriage 1861-1880, 1880-1901, 1902-1931, 1932-1955, 1959 (x2)
Plans of building
Sunday School register 1936-l937
Summerhill National School Registers (2) 1902-1968
correspondence concerning closing of school in the 1960s

Cork Ministers' Union (‘for non episcopal Protestant clergy’) minutes 1892-

Cork Presbytery Minutes 1852-57

Dublin Presbytery Marriage Licence Notice Book 1859-1864

Dublin & Munster Presbytery Marriage Licence Notice Book 1980 (Fermoy)

Fermoy
Baptism 1891-
Committee 1847-99 1900-51 (inc., meeting 18/12/76) 1952-1968
Marriage Notice 1845-82 (inc. entries for 1923, 1948, 1959)
Marriage 1892-1939, 1969- (x2) 1980-
Communion 1940-1940-71 (inc. Lismore 1920-40)

Fethard
Marriage 1845-1885

Lismore
Baptisms-see Fermoy
Marriage 1854-1942
Minutes 1894-1960
Communion 1920-40 (with Fermoy register)

Mallow
Baptism 1854-1919
Marriage 1863-1914

Munster Presbytery Marriage Licence Notice Books 1845-1850 [Portlaw], 1846-1876 1886-1910 [Clonmel], 1847-1897, 1863-1872 [Fethard], 1866-1903, 1869-1920, 1896-1957 [Queenstown], 1913-1921

Queenstown/Cobh
Baptism (with Rostellan/Aghada) 1847-
Communion Roll 1890-1940 (includes Aghada)
Marriage 1860? 1864-1954 1959
Royal Army Chaplains' Dept Handbook 1934 (Western & NI Command) Preachers' Book for Fort Camden and Spike Island 1934-1937
Treasurer’s Cash Book 1845-1855

Rostellan see Aghada, Queenstown

Summerhill (Meath)
Marriage 1840-1892

Tipperary
Marriage 1853-1929

Bundle of Presbytery correspondence with central authorities concerning query sheets, statistics etc. 1880s

Various correspondence, leaflets re Cork, Trinity, Cobh, Aghada & Fermoy 1950- (some earlier)

Other useful addresses:

Cork Archives Institute, 

Christ Church, 

South Main Street, 

Cork
cai@indigo.ie

Cobh Genealogical Project
'Merville' 

Cobh, 

Co Cork  

mervillecobh@eircom.net