Rathvilly Civil Parish, County Carlow, Ireland Genealogy

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

History
Rathvilly is a parish in the barony of Rathvilly, county of Carlow, and province of Leinster. It is located five miles northeast of Tallow, on the road to Baltinglass, and on the rivers Slaney and Derreen.

The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Leighlin, episcopally united, since 1683, to the rectories of Rathmore and Straboe, and the impropriate cure of Rahill, and in the patronage of the Crown, by agreement with the bishop.

In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish is the head of a union or district, comprising this parish and that of Rathmore, and parts of Straboe, Kiltegan, and Kilranala; and containing three chapels, of which two are in Rathvilly.

Localities
The parish of Rathvilly is surrounded by the parishes of Baltinglass, Hacketstown, Haroldstown, Kiltegan, Kineagh, Rahill, Rathmore, and Tullowphelim, as well as the county of Wicklow. It is located in the poor law union of Baltinglass.

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Census
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Methodist
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Civil Registration
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Land records
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Probate records
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School records
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Tax records
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