Dublin City

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Dublin City Library- Heritage & History - lists of databases that can be accessed via Irish Genealogy.ie

Churches are listed under their respective civil parishes, but you can view all of the churches in the Dublin area by clicking on the "nearby Churches" tab above.

"Dublin gives title to an archbishop, who is styled Primate of Ireland, and whose province includes the following united dioceses:-Dublin, Glendalough, and Kildare, which forms the see of the archbishop; Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin; Cashel, Emly, Waterford, Killaloe and Kilfenora, Cork, Cloyne, Ross, Limerick, Ardfert, Aghadoe, and Lismore.

The bishopric of Dublin, founded by St. Patrick, was erected into an archbishopric in 1152; and in 1214 the see of Glendalough, now nominal, was annexed. By the Church Temporalities Act, passed in 1833, the bishopric of Kildare was consolidated with the sees of Dublin and Glendalough. The archiepiscopal see comprises 183 benefices, of which 139 are in Dublin and 44 in Kildare. Christ Church Cathedral, a venerable cruciform structure, consists of a dean, precentor, chancellor, treasurer, and archdeacon of Dublin, 3 prebendaries, and 6 vicars-choral. The cathedral of St. Patrick is also a cruciform pile, 300 feet in length; it comprises a dean, precentor, chancellor, treasurer, the archdeacons of Dublin and Glendalough, and various prebendaries.

The metropolitan parishes are all in the diocese of Dublin, and consist of the following:- St. Andrew's, a rectory; St. Anne's, a vicarage; St. Audeon's, a rectory; St. Bridget's, or St. Bride's, a perpetual curacy; St. Catherine's, a vicarage; St. George's, a rectory; Grangegorman, partly within the new electoral boundary, N. of the city, and partly in the county of Dublin, a perpetual curacy; St. James's, a vicarage; St. John's, a prebend; St. Luke's, a vicarage; St. Mark's, a vicarage; St. Mary's, a rectory; St. Michael's, a prebend; St. Michan's, a prebend; St. Nicholas Within, a perpetual curacy; St. Nicholas Without, a perpetual curacy; St. Paul's, a rectory; St. Peter's, a vicarage; St. Thomas, a rectory; and St. Werburgh's, a rectory Dublin is also divided into nine Roman Catholic parishes or ecclesiastical districts: St. Mary's, St. Michan's, St. Paul's, St. Andrew's, St. Audeon's, St. Catherine's, St. James's, St. Michael's, St. John's, and St. Nicholas's. It is also a Roman Catholic archiepiscopal see. The ecclesiastical duties are executed by 9 parochial priests and 52 clergy.

The principal Roman Catholic chapels are the chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Marlborough-street; that of St. Francis Xavler, in Upper Gardner-street; the Dominican chapel, in Denmark-street; the chapel in North Anne-street; the chapel of St. Francis, in Churchstreet; the chapel in Westland-row; and a chapel in Whitefriar-street.

Of Presbyterian meeting-houses, there are four, situated in Chapel-street, Usher's Quay, Eustace-street, and Great Strand-street; the two former are of the Church of Scotland, and the two latter Unitarian.

There are three congregations of Independents, whose places of worship are in D'Olier-street, King's Inns-street, and York-street.

The Methodist chapels are in Whitefriar-street, Abbey-street, Cork-street, Hendrick-street, South Great George-street, and Langrishe-place.

There are also two Baptist congregations, a Moravian congregation, a church for German Lutherans, and a meeting-house for Quakers.

The Jews have a synagogue....."  

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018]   

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Extract for Dublin city from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868. Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2018

Extract for Dublin city from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

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"The markets are under the superintendence of a jury. The chief wholesale market for cattle and sheep is held on Monday and Thursday; that for hay, straw, butter, and fowls, on Tuesday and Saturday; the great market for potatoes is in Petticoat-lane; that for fish in Boot-lane. There is also a fruit market at Little Green...."    [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018]

You can see maps centred on OSI grid reference O1589934687 (Lat/Lon: 53.349937, -6.260318), Dublin City which are provided by:

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"The trade of Dublin consists principally in the supply of the middle districts with articles of import, comprising tea, coffee, sugar, tobacco, timber, wine, &c. The harbour of Dublin has been greatly improved since the completion of the North Wall. Large vessels can now unlade at the quays, there being a depth of 24 feet on the bar at high water, and 12 feet at low tide. Large docks and extensive storehouses communicate with the Liffey to the custom-house; and the docks that communicate with the Grand canal afford commodious wharfage for colliers and merchantmen. The commerce of the port consists of various branches, of which the most important is the cross channel trade; the principal lines of steamers being to Belfast, Bristol, Carlisle, Douglas, Falmouth, Glasgow, Holyhead viâ Kingstown, Liverpool, London, Newcastle, Wexford, and Whitehaven. The channel of the Liffey in Dublin Bay, is said to be now deep enough for vessels of 1,400 tons. In the foreign trade of Dublin, the importation of wines seems to be the chief staple of commerce. They are imported direct, and consist of port, sherry, Cape, and French wines..."  [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018]

"The garrison of the city is quartered in several barracks. The largest are the Royal barracks, on an eminence overlooking the Liffey, adapted for 93 officers, 2,000 men, and 460 horses; the barracks in South Great George-street for 17 officers and 324 privates; the Richmond barracks, on the Grand canal, accommodating 76 officers and 1,600 men; the Portobello cavalry barracks, 27 officers and 520 men, with stabling for 540 horses; the Phoenix Park barracks, 10 officers and 250 men...."  [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018]

Newspapers, Magazines and Journals - at Dublin City Library

Dublin newspaper extracts  - on IGP

• Dublin Gazette, Fugitives for Debt - 1730 
• Dublin Gazette. Fugitives for Debt 1730-1731
• Dublin Gazette, 8 May 1731 - Advertisement
• Dublin Journal. To Be Sold by Mrs Ann Fisher 22 Nov 1746
• Dublin Journal. A rent roll for Dublin 24th March 1750
• Hibernian Journal, Licences for Selling Lottery Tickets - 3 Sep 1789 
• 1800's
• Insolvents in Ireland. Lower Ormond Quay -1829   
• Freemans Journal 3 Jul 1830, Meeting of Parishioners of St. Michan's  
• Freemans Journal 3 Jul 1830, Meeting of Churchwardens of Parish of St. Luke, Co. Dublin 
• Freeman's Journal, 29 Dec 1830 - Repeal of the Union    
• Dublin Gazette - Insolvents 1836  
• Freemans Journal, 3 Oct 1840 - Repeal of the Union (Some different names in these two files)  
• Freemans Journal, 3 Oct 1840 - Repeal of the Union (Some different names in these two files)  
• Freemans Journal, 18-Aug-1840. Repeal Association. Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin  
• London Times, Involvency - FALKINER, CLOIREE, BARKER - 1856 Insolvency  
• 1900's
• Marriage Announcement (Fleming-Sterne) October 14, 1916    
• Soccer - March 14, 1921    
• Car accident 30 Jun 1971 LEGGETT

"Dublin has upwards of 200 charitable schools: of these, 132 are day schools; 34 schools where lodging, boarding, &c., are provided; 27 schools for orphans; 4 schools of various societies; 2 for deaf mutes; and 2 of the National Board of Education. Among them must be named the King's Hospital, commonly called the blue-coat school, founded in 1670; the Charter School Society, for instructing the poor in the English language and the Protestant religion; the Hibernian Soldiers' school, in the Phoenix Park, for children of soldiers; the Hibernian Marine school, for the children of sailors in the navy and merchant service; the Kildare Place Society, for the education of the poor in Ireland; and the Dublin Free School and Sunday-school Societies. Among the learned institutions of Dublin, the chief is the University, incorporated by Queen Elizabeth in 1591. The body of Trinity College (the only college in the University) consists of a provost, 7 senior fellows (one of whom is the vice-provost), 24 junior fellows, 70 scholars, and 30 sizars. The number of students is at present about 1,200. Trinity College possesses a fine library of 130,000 volumes; connected with the University are a museum, rich in minerals and Irish antiquities; a magnetic observatory; a school of anatomy; a printing-house; a botanic garden, and the astronomical observatory at Dunsink, 4 miles from Dublin. The "Queen's University in Ireland" empowered to grant degrees to those who have studied in any of the Queen's colleges at Belfast, Galway, or Cork, holds its examinations in Dublin. ..."  [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2018]