The site irishgenealogy.ie has now put the parish records of the Muintervara parish online from 1820.  In the absence of census records pre 1901 it is a valuable source of family information, for example the bulk of the birth records as well as itemizing the child, date of baptism, include the name of the mother and father and the sponsors.  The town land is also given but to our modern eyes often in a rather corrupt version reflecting that many of the people in the early 19th century were Irish speaking and the priests were perhaps unfamiliar with local usages.  The Church of Ireland records are not included  perhaps in time they will be included.  The existing Church of Ireland records are accessible in the library of the Rppresentative Church Body in Dublin.

A preliminary view of the records suggests a birthrate for the parish in the 1820s of c200 per year.   What is also interesting is the interconnections between the minor landlord families in the period 1820-50 the O’Donovans of O’Donovan Cove/Fort Lodge, the Blairs of Blair’s Cove and the Evansons of various addresses in marriage patterns and was sponsors for each other.