This appendix lists all the parishes that were extant in the diocese of Dublin from 1530 to 1600 and provides details of their pre-dissolution rectors and how the cures were served. It also records changes that were made to the status of individual parishes at different points in the sixteenth century. The main source used as the basis for the compilation is Archbishop John Alen's roll of churches, ‘the Reportorium Viride’, which is in print: N.B. White (ed.), ‘The Reportorium Viride of John Alen, archbishop of Dublin, 1533’ in Analecta 10 (1941), pp. 173-217. Alen's list of churches was copied from an earlier list compiled for the late thirteenth century register known as the ‘Crede Mihi’ – printed in J.T. Gilbert (ed.), Crede mihi: the most ancient register book of the archbishop of Dublin before the Reformation (Dublin, 1897), pp. 134-49 – and includes a number of churches which had disappeared in the interim and some which disappeared after his own death in 1534. It also designates many churches as chapels of ease which had subsequently become fully parochial. Adjustments to the data in the ‘Reportorium Viride’ have been made accordingly.

Three early seventeenth-century visitations have also been used extensively for ascertaining which parishes survived throughout the sixteenth century: the metropolitan and prerogative court visitations of the diocese of Dublin in TCD, MS 566; the regal visitation of 1615 in BL, Additional MS 19836; and Archbishop Bulkeley's diocesan visitation of 1630, printed as M.V. Ronan (ed.)