Much work has been done in transcribing and publishing gravestone inscriptions. Many of the largest collections of indexed transcripts of gravestone inscriptions are now held by local Heritage Centres.
Some surveys are both accurate and comprehensive, while others are sketchy.
Finding out whether a particular graveyard has been surveyed and locating the gravestone transcriptions may also prove to be difficult. Comprehensive listings of all known gravestone transcripts, cross-linked to the areas they cover, can be found through ancestor search . The Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead started publishing its Journal in 1888. Over the forty-seven years of its existence between 1888 and 1934, the Journal published a huge volume of inscriptions, many of which have since been destroyed. The references in the county source-lists to the Irish Genealogical Research Society collection in the Genealogical Office give the number of entries recorded in each graveyard.