The new collection Ireland, Dublin Maternity Hospital Births, 1797-1882, contains 616,962 transcription records and was posted on 11 November 2026.
The records from Rotunda Hospital in Dublin typically include the child’s name, date and place of birth, date of baptism, and the parents’ names. Some also include the parents’ birth years and the mother’s place of residence.
The collection may be especially useful for births before 1864, when Ireland began civil registration of all births. Before then, researchers had to rely mainly on church records, which are often incomplete or hard to access.
Dr Bartholomew Mosse founded the Rotunda Hospital in 1745, and it remains one of the world’s oldest maternity hospitals still in operation.