Ballyshannon Civil Parish, County Kildare, Ireland Genealogy

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

History
Ballyshannon, or Ballysonan, is a parish situated partly in the barony of East Ophaly, but chiefly in that of West Ophaly, county of Kildare, and province of Leinster.

The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Kildare, constituting the corps of the prebend of Ballysonan in the cathedral of Kildare, and united by act of council, in 1795, to the rectory of Kilrush, forming the union of Ballysonan, in the alternate patronage of the Crown and the Bishop. In the Roman Catholic divisions this parish forms part of the union or district of Sancroft. .

Localities
The parish of Ballyshannon is divided into two different geographic sections and is surrounded by the parishes of Ballysax, Carn, Davidstown, Duneany, Fontstown, Kildare, Kilrush, Moone, Nurney, Tully, and Walterstown. It is located in the poor law union of Athy.

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Cemeteries
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Census
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Church of Ireland
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Presbyterian
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Methodist
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Society of Friends
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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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