The Registry of Deeds Project was established to provide finding aids for the records held by the office in Dublin. According to its website, there are three sets of indexes being produced:

• The main index is building a name index for the memorial transcription books held at the Registry of Deeds
• The grantors index consists of transcriptions of the Registry of Deeds' grantors indexes
• The townland index consists of transcriptions of the Registry of Deeds' townland indexes

Index entries are contributed by project volunteers. Each of the index databases can be searched on a number of fields. Read more here.

Periodically the project manager provides updates. Thanks to a helpful blog reader for sharing this Facebook posting with us:

Update of 08 August 2022 - 497,717 index records from 51,905 memorials of deeds

Yesterday I completed an update that has 497,717 index records from 51,905 memorials of deeds. I thank all our wonderful volunteers for their excellent work. We are getting ever closer to the magic half million entries in our main index.

I had to change the scripts behind the 'browse by names' and 'browse by number' pages. They look a little different but produce the same output.

In addition, one of our volunteers has completed transcribing the townland index for county Kildare 1708-39. This index also continues to grow. You can see the coverage of the townland indexes here.

All the indexes are fully searchable here.