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Catholic Archives

Catalogue of 17 Irish Catholic religious archives. Agents can search archival descriptions and authority records and browse repositories.

Ask an agent to

  • Search the archives for records about a convent school
  • Find authority records for a religious order
  • List all 17 hosted repositories

4 tools

When we loaded catholicarchives.ie again on Oct 24, 2026, it registered these through navigator.modelContext or provideContext(), from earlier WebMCP drafts. Chrome 154 only offers document.modelContext, so Chrome’s own agent support does not see them.

  • browse_catholic_archives_repositories

    Browse the list of all 17 Irish Catholic religious institution archives hosted on this platform

  • browse_catholic_archives_summary

    Get an AI-readable summary of the Catholic Archives catalogue — lists all 17 hosted repositories, record types, date ranges, archival standards used, search parameters, and access point discovery

  • search_catholic_archives

    Search the Catholic Archives catalogue — ISAD(G) archival descriptions from 17 Irish Catholic religious institutions spanning the 17th century to the present. Covers Dublin Diocesan Archives, Irish Capuchin Archives…

    query: string

  • search_catholic_archives_authority_records

    Search authority records in the Catholic Archives — persons, families, and corporate bodies (religious orders, dioceses, parishes, missionary societies) described under ISAAR(CPF). Each record includes a biographical…

    query: string

Tools
4
Registered with
JavaScript
Older API
navigator.modelContext
Tranco rank
#370,512
Scan finished
Oct 19, 2026

Tool names and descriptions are what catholicarchives.ie/ registered when we loaded it in Chrome 154 on Browser Use Cloud. The summary and the “ask an agent” lines are AI-written from them. To call the tools yourself, see Chrome’s WebMCP docs. How we found it.