Search Room at the General Register Office (GRO)

Commencing Tuesday January 7, 2025 Our walk in office opening hours are as follows:

Tuesdays only: 9.30am to 12.30 pm, 2pm to 4.30pm

The Research Rooms offer an email service Monday – Friday where you can request searches or photocopies.

Our searches access all civil registration records up to present day.

Please email your request to GROResearchRoom@welfare.ie and a member of staff will reply as soon as possible.

Our email service allows greater speed and accuracy when dealing with searches. The service is managed 5 days a week. It accesses all of the civil registration records up to present day and customer searches are frequently provided on a same day service.

This service requires that you have sufficient information to identify a specific entry from the index.

For reasons of data privacy, staff cannot conduct the research for you or conduct searches using speculative or non-specific information.

The email address is GROResearchRoom@welfare.ie

You can order copies of entries from the registers from our staff in the research room and if you wish to order certified copies of entries, you can still do so from the General Register Office in Roscommon.

Apply for birth, death, marriage, adoption, civil partnership and stillbirth certificates.

Historic records of the following can be viewed on the Irishgenealogy.ie website:

• births 1864 - 1924
• marriages 1845 - 1949
• deaths 1871 - 1974

Searches and fees

2 types of searches may be undertaken at the genealogical/family history research facility:

• specific search covering a maximum of 5 consecutive years for a fee of €5 per each event for example birth, marriage or death
• a general search covering any number of years for a fee of €20 per day per person

The fee for a copy of an entry from the records is €5.

Indexes available for searching

• births registered in the island of Ireland between 1 January 1864 and 31 December 1921 inclusive, and in the Republic of Ireland from 1922 onwards
• deaths registered in the island of Ireland between 1 January 1864 and 31 December 1921 inclusive and in the Republic of Ireland from 1922 onwards
• marriages registered in the island of Ireland between 1 April 1845 and 31 December 1921 inclusive and in the Republic of Ireland from 1922 onwards
• domestic adoptions registered in Ireland from 10 July 1953 onwards

Apply for birth, death, marriage, adoption, civil partnership and stillbirth certificates.