# Catholic Archives Catalogue

> Probe-verified (tier 2 of 3). Last checked 2026-08-23. 2 of 5 capability checks passed.

- host: catholicarchives.ie
- url: https://catholicarchives.ie/
- category: archival catalogue
- type: nonprofit
- country: IE
- locations: Ireland
- language: en

## Probe-verified · tier 2 of 3

Probed live on 2026-08-23 against rubric v1. 2 of 5 checks passed.

- PASS — Markdown negotiation
- fail — Markdown twin at a predictable URL
- fail — llms.txt
- PASS — API catalog
- fail — MCP server answers

## Unverified actions

Read from the page's own content, with the wording each was drawn from. Inference is kept separate from tested facts; an agent completing the action is tier 3.

- **search** — "Use the search bar at the top of any page to search across all repositories simultaneously" → `https://catholicarchives.ie/informationobject/browse?query={query}`
- **contact** — "Contact details for each repository — including address, phone, and email — are available on each repository page"

## Summary

Free online catalogue providing public access to archival records of Irish Catholic religious institutions hosted on the AtoM platform.

## Context

150 sites in this index share the type "nonprofit"; 80 are transactional.

## How we grade

- tier 1 — **Declared**: The site says agents are welcome in its robots.txt. A permission, not a capability.
- tier 2 — **Probe-verified** (this site): We fetched the site and tested each signal ourselves. Dated, repeatable, re-checked on a schedule.
- tier 3 — **Behaviourally verified**: An agent completed the action end to end — booked, bought, submitted — and it worked.

## About this record

Known-Good probes sites live and publishes what was tested and when.
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