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The article offers information on the Kilkenny City in Ireland which serves as a cultural venue and tourist destination featuring Kilkenny Castle, St. Canice's Cathedral and round tower and the historic Rothe House, along with wide range of industries including food and dairy, brewing and pharmaceutical. Topics discussed include existence of Catholic baptism and marriage records, presence of several transcribed and indexed gravestones inscriptions, and collection of estate papers and rentals.

The article discusses the administrative use of parish registers by the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. According to the article, the Catholic Church reorganized Irish parishes following the 1829 event the Catholic Emancipation. The article discusses the efforts of the National Library of Ireland (NLI) to microfilm copies of Irish parish registers and the organization of baptismal, marriage, and burial registers.

The article focuses on the archive of Ionad an Bhlascaoid/The Blasket Centre situated in Dún Chaoin village in west County Kerry, Ireland, which holds an almost complete set of genealogical records for the islands dating from the beginning of the 19th century. It notes that the island's baptismal records have been combined with marriage records in one database, enabling an easy search with minimal original details. It says that Blasket people generations left the island to seek work.