Limerick - Ballyhahill or Loughill area

Hi there,

Identifying parishes can be very confusing. Currently both Ballyhahill and Loughill are villages. The civil parish you are looking for is most likely Kilmoylan.  http://www.irish-place-names.com/

Church records may be of service to you. Church of Ireland parish registers for the period up to 1870 are public records. Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyed in the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. A list of all surviving registers is available in the National Archives. http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/.  Presbyterian registers are held in three main locations: in local custody, in the Public Records of Northern Ireland (PRONI) and at the Presbyterian Historical Society in Belfast. PRONI has microfilm copies of almost all registers in Northern Ireland and also lists of records held by the Presbyterian Historical Society. For the rest of Ireland, almost all records are in local custody. It can difficult to locate these as many congregations in the South have moved, amalgamated, or simply disappeared over the last sixty years. If you have any difficulty, you could try writing to the parish priest for more assistance.  Two sites with some contact information are:  http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Loughill/textLoughill.htm   which is also useful for information regarding the areas heritag project   or        http://www.mylocalnews.ie/limerick-20/glin-loughill-ballyhahill-558/church-4/roman-catholic-20/loughill-and-ballyhahill-parish-1003/ . 

I wish you the best of luck with your search.

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