Preserving and Recording Ireland’s Sacred Heritage

PARISH (Preserving And Recording Ireland’s Sacred Heritage) is a collaborative history and heritage project creating a digitised, fully searchable record of Irish church interiors. Its objective is to ‘preserve by record’ the social heritage, including memorial and other inscriptions, contained in Ireland’s 3,000+ Catholic Church interiors.

To this end, the project will produce an online database containing comprehensive photographic and other data records of the interiors of all Catholic churches on the island of Ireland. This will be a vital ongoing record of the Irish Catholic Church’s infrastructure and the communities that built it.