Clontibret Civil Parish, County Monaghan, Ireland Genealogy

Ireland County Monaghan  Clontibret Civil Parish

The following information is a starting point for records about the civil parish of Clontibret. The information is based on locations and records before 1922.

History
Clontibret is a parish in the barony of Cremorne, county of Monaghan, province of Ulster. The living is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Clogher.

There is a place of worship for Presbyterians and also places of worship for Primitivie and Wesleyan Methodists.

In the Roman Catholic Church, part of the parish is included in the district of Mucknoe and the remainder forms a district of itself. The chapel is at Anyallow.

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Cemeteries
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Census
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Catholic
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The Catholic parish of Clontibret covers a wide area of mid-Monaghan. It embraces 115 townlands of 136 in the civil parish of Clontibret. There are three districts with chapels: Annyalla (also spelled Annayalla), Doohamlet and Clontibret. The parish church is St. Michael the Archangel in Annayalla.

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Presbyterian
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Methodist
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Society of Friends
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Others
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Civil Registration
Government registration of births and deaths began in 1864. Registration of Protestant marriages began in 1845, with all marriages being registered by 1864. Go to the Ireland Civil Registration article to read more about these records.

Land records
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Probate records
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School records
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Tax records
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