placenamesGortroe
An Gort Rua
The parish’s archive records both the destruction of original volumes and the preservation of copies and indexes.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Gort Rua · Irish · main form · validated name
- Gortroe · English · main form
Place & story
The loss in 1922
The Representative Church Body Library’s catalogue records that two volumes of Gortroe parish registers were destroyed in the Public Record Office fire of 1922. Their coverage included baptisms from 1803 to 1865, marriages from 1806 to 1846 and burials from 1805 to 1869. These are the dates of the lost records, rather than a statement that all evidence for those years disappeared. [2]
Copies and indexes
The same catalogue lists a copy register of baptisms and marriages covering the first two periods, alongside a marriage register for 1846–1872. It separately identifies indexes for Rathcormac–Gortroe baptisms, marriages and burials, distinguishing those finding aids from the registers themselves. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Gortroe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Gortroe (Cloyne), parish P.0896: register list, 25 November 2024 · Representative Church Body Library, Church of Ireland Archive
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.