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1. Roman Catholic

  • Maynooth Students 1795-1895, Hamill, National Library Ir. P 37841 1
  • Priests Lists (by diocese) 1735-1835, National Library Manuscript 1548
  • List of Priests and Sureties, 1705. National Library Manuscript 5318
  • Irish Catholic Directory, annually from 1837

2. Church of Ireland

  • List of regular clergy in Ireland, by county, with place of birth, order and residence, 1824, Archivium Hibernicum, Vol. 3, pp 49-86
  • Biographical Succession Lists
      (i) By diocese:
      • Ardfert & Aghadoe: Ardfert & Aghadoe Clergy and parishes, Canon J.B. Leslie, Dublin 1940. National Library Ir. 274146 l 2
      • Armagh: Armagh Clergy and Parishes, Canon Leslie, Dublin 1911. National Library Ir. 27411 l 4. Also Supplement to Armagh Clergy and Parishes, Canon Leslie, Dundalk, 1948
      • Cashel & Emly: Biographical Succession List for the Diocese of Cashel and Emly John Seymour Connor: National Library Manuscript 1773 (Leslie manuscript)
      • Clogher: Clogher Clergy and Parishes, Canon J.B. Leslie 1908, 1927. NLI Ir 27411 l 3
      • Cork, Cloyne & Ross: Biographical Succession List for the Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne, Ross, William Meade
      • Cork & Ross: Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne and Ross (3 vols.) W. Maziere Brady, Dubli, 1863-4 NLI Ir 27414 b 4
      • Derry: Derry Clergy and Parishes, Canon J. B. Leslie, Enniskillen 1937. National Library Ir. 27411 l 7
      • Down: Biographical Succession List for the Diocese of Down, Canon J.B.Leslie, Enniskillen 1936. Co-author, V.Rev. H.B. Swanzy NLI Ir 27411 L 6
      • Dromore: Biographical Succession List for the Diocese of Dromore, Belfast, 1933. Swanzy, Rev. H.B., Co-author Canon J.B. Leslie. NLI Ir 27411 s 2
      • Dublin: National Library Manuscript 1771 (Leslie manuscript)
        The Succession of Clergy in the Parishes of S. Bride, S. Michel le Pole and S. Stephen Carroll, W.G., Dublin, 1884, NLI J27413
      • Clogher: Canon Leslie. National Library Ir. 27411 l 3
      • Ferns: Canon Leslie. National Library Ir. 27413 l 3
      • Leighlin: National Library Manuscript 1772 (Leslie manuscript)
      • Ossory: Ossory Clergy and Parishes, Canon J.B.Leslie, Enniskillen 1933. National Library Ir. 27413 l 5
      • Raphoe: Raphoe Clergy and Parishes, Canon J.B.Leslie, Enniskillen 1940. National Library Ir. 27413 l 8
      • Ross: The Diocese of Ross, its bishops, clergy and parishes, Charles Webster, Cork, Guy & Co., 1936. NLI Ir 27414 w 3
      • Waterford & Lismore: Succession List of the [...] clergy of Waterford and Lismore, William Rennison, Wateford, 1920. NLI Ir 274141 R 1
      • Fasti Hibernicae (Vols 1-5): Henry Cotton, National Library Ir. 2741002
      • Fasti of St Patrick's, Dublin: H.J.Lawlor
    • (ii) Unpublished material on all clergy not covered above in Representative Church Body Library. See also National Library Mss P 1775-6 (Leslie manuscript)
  • (c) National Library Manuscript 2674. Pedigrees and families of Church of Ireland clergymen, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries
  • (d) Fothergill, Gerald, A List of Emigrant Ministers to America, 1690-1811 London, 1904
  • (e) Church of Ireland Directories, as follows:
    • 1814: Ecclesiastical Registry , Samuel Percy Lea
    • 1817: Irish Ecclesiastical Register
    • 1818: Irish Ecclesiastical Register
    • 1824: Irish Ecclesiastical Register
    • 1827: Irish Ecclesiastical Register
    • 1830: Ecclesiastical Register , John C. Erck
    • 1841: The Churchman s Almanack and Irish Ecclesiastical Register, John Medlicott Burns.
    • 1842: Irish Ecclesiastical Directory
    • 1843: The Irish Clergy List , John Medlicott Burns.
    • 1858: Clerical Directory of Ireland , Samuel B. Oldham
    • 1862 to date, annually: Church of Ireland Directory

3. Methodist

  • (a) Minutes of the Methodist Conference 1757 to date. National Library Ir. 287 m 4
  • (b) Published works:
    • H Crookshank, C.H., History of Methodism in Ireland, 1740-1860 (3 Vols), Belfast, 1885- 8; [Vol. 4 (1860-1960) H. Lee Cole, Belfast, 1961.] NLI Ir 287 c 2
    • Cole, H.L., History of Methodism in Dublin, National Library Ir 287 c 4
    • Gallagher, W., Preachers of Methodism, Belfast, 1965. National Library Ir. 287 g 1
    • Smith, W., History of Methodism in Ireland, Dublin, 1830. J 2871, National Library Ir. 2871 s 2

4. Presbyterian

  • (a) Names of Presbyterian Clergymen and their congregations in Cos Antrim, Armagh, Down, Donegal, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Cork, Dublin, King s, Louth, Westmeath, Mayo, 1837. New Plan for Education in Ireland 1838, Part 1 pp (27.8) 200 205
  • (b) Published Works:
    • Ferguson, Rev. S. Brief Biographical Notices of some Irish Covenanting Ministers, (1897) [particularly 18th century]. P National Library Ir. 285
    • History of Congregations, National Library Ir. 285 h 8
    • Irwin, C.H., A History of Presbyterians in Dublin and the South and West of Ireland , 1890. National Library Ir. 285 i 1
    • Latimer, W.T., History of the Irish Presbyterians, Belfast, 1902. National Library Ir. 285 l 1 (early ministers especially)
    • McComb s Presbyterian Almanack, National Library Ir. 285 m 1
    • Marshall W. F Ulster Sails West (including Ulster Presbytetrian ministers in America 1680 1820). National Library Ir. 973 m 5
    • McConnell, J., Fasti of the Irish Presbyterian Church, Belfast, 1938. National Library Ir. 285 m 14
    • Reid, James Seiton, History of the Presbyterian Church, London, 1853. National Library Ir. 285 r 1
    • Smith & McIntyre, Belfast Almanack 1837,
    • Stewart, Rev, David The Seceders in Ireland, With Annals of Their Congregations, Belfast, 1950.
    • Witherow, Thomas, Historical and Literary Memorials of Presbyterianism in Ireland , Belfast, 1879
  • (c) Belfast Directories:
    • Martins', 1835-42, National Library Ir. 9141111 (sic) m 4; from 1852, National Library Ir. 91411 b 3