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About the General Register Office
From Department of Social Protection
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The General Register Office (Oifig An Ard-Chláraitheora) is the central civil repository for records relating to births, stillbirths, deaths, marriages, civil partnerships and adoptions in Ireland.
The General Register Office (GRO) operates under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection and has responsibility for the administration of the Civil Registration Service in Ireland. Our office is located at:
The Registrar General is responsible for managing and controlling the Civil Registration system in Ireland. The Health Service Executive (HSE) is responsible for the day-to-day delivery of the Civil Registration Service through a network of local civil registration offices across the State.
We operate a research facility at Werburgh Street, Dublin 8, D08 E277 where members of the public, involved in family research, may search the indexes to the registers held by GRO and purchase photocopies of entries in the registers.
Certificates of birth, death, marriage, civil partnership or stillbirth can be obtained from the General Register Office, from local civil register offices or online.
The General Register Office, (Oifig an Ard-Chláraitheora) is located at Government Offices, Convent Road, Roscommon, Co. Roscommon. In addition to the records maintained at the family research facility in the Werburgh Street, Dublin 8, D08 E277 indexes to the following registers of life events are maintained solely at Roscommon.
These include:
To request a certificate from these records please go to our certificate application page.