FamilySearch has a database of Ireland Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958 which includes over 23 million names. There are no images, but parents’ names are a part of the database.
Irish civil records indicate that several members of my Neill family lived in Derry Beg in the north of Ireland in the 1850s-1880s. The handwriting in the records being used made it look like “Derrybeg” so I assumed it was one word. I had a difficult time finding it on a map in the appropriate place (parish of Drumachose) until I realized that it was Derry Beg–two words. There were several other places in Ireland named Derrybeg as well. I knew I they were the wrong ones because the county was incorrect. There can easily be more than one place in a country with the same name and when searching for places, spaces matter.
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