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PawredArchives and Libraries
National Archives of Ireland with access to research and genealogy information. Online databases include the Ireland-Australia Transportation Index (1791-1868) and census records. See Databases for details.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Online resources include geographical, prominent persons, Presbyterian and Church of Ireland indexes plus Freeholders' Records and the Ulster Covenant databases. See Databases for details.

National Library of Ireland. with information for family history researchers including an online list of Catholic parish registers held. There is also access to the library catalogue, photographic, newspaper and manuscript databases.

ELibraries. This site is an online guide to Ireland's Library Catalogues.

PawredBirth, Death and Marriage Records
The General Register Office offers information on birth, death and marriage records in the Republic of Ireland plus details on the location of church records.

General Register Office Northern Ireland with information for the online ordering of births, death and marriage certificates for Northern Ireland. There is also a link to District Registrar Offices.

Irish Family History Foundation's Irish Genealogical Online Record Search System Upoffers online access to birth, death and marriage parish records for Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Cork, Dublin, Fermanagh, Galway, Kildare, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Roscommon, Tipperary, Tyrone and Westmeath. More will be added as they come online. See individual counties for links and details

Genfindit ordering service for Irish birth, death or marriage photocopies or certificates (1864-1997). Protestant marriages available from 1845.

History from Headstones lists inscriptions from 800+ Northern Ireland graveyards. The databases cover counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone. There is a free surname search but there is a fee to view inscriptions.

Emerald Ancestors   This paid site offers online access to 1 million+ birth, marriage, death and census record transcripts for the Northern Ireland counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone. A free name search is available.

Waterford County Library. Enter Death Registers into the Search box for online access to County Waterford Death Registers (1864-1901). A search returns a full transcript from the original register.

Ireland Old News, Irish Death Notice Index  to 54,100+ obituaries of people who were born and/or died in Ireland, or whose deaths were mentioned in Irish newspapers. Includes 25,000+ entries from The Cork Examiner.

PawredCensus Records
National Archives of Ireland is digitising and indexing the 1901 and 1911 Census Records.  The free images for each household and institution are indexed by name, townland/street, age and sex. The first phase of this ongoing project, Dublin City 1911 census, is online with the counties to follow.

Clare County Library, Census Search Forms 1841 & 1851. When Ireland introduced the Old Age Pension in 1908 many applicants had no birth certificate as Civil Registration did not begin until 1864. So the 1841 and 1851 census returns were used to prove age. This database lists applicant's surname, birthdate/age, address, father's name, mother's maiden name, siblings plus census and other details.

The Leitrim-Roscommon 1901 Census Homepage offers a searchable database of 1901 census transcriptions for Leitrim, Roscommon, Mayo and Sligo. Data for the counties of Galway, Westmeath and Wexford is ongoing with limited searching available.

PawredDatabases
Ancestry.com  Irish databases include: Marriages index 1771-1812; Irish records extraction database; Irish records index 1500-1920; wills index 1536-1857; Royal Irish Constabulary index 1816-1921; Irish flax growers list 1796; Ireland 1766 religious census; Irish emigrants (USA/Canada) plus gazeteers, topographical dictionaries, landed gentry publications and more. The records are fully indexed with a free surname search. Subscription options offer access to information or digitised records. Use the Search button then Browse by Location-Ireland to see what is available. 

Library Ireland is a Free Irish Reference Library.   The transcripts of a wide range of old books, including directories, are available online with full text searching. Topics covered include Irish antiquities, biography, genealogy, history (general, local and social) and literature.

Ulster Historical Foundation offers access to 2 million+ online records. The wide variety of databases cover Northern Ireland parish records and some civil registration records. Other databases include directories, trade and occupational lists, wills, passenger lists and much more.

Irish Newspaper Archives.   offers free searches and access to digitized copies (pay per view) of Irish national and regional newspapers. These include Anglo-Celt (Cavan, 1908-2001); Connaught Sentinel (Galway, 1927-2003); Connaught Telegraph (Mayo, 1975-2003); Connaught Tribune (Galway, 1909-2002); Donegal News (1980-1985); Freeman's Journal (1763-1924); Galway City Tribune (1984-2002); Irish Farmer Journal (1957-1998); Irish Independent (Dublin, 1905-2003); Leitrim Observer (1923-1976); Meath Chronicle (1897-2002); Munster Express (Waterford 1933-1960); Sunday Independent (Dublin 1935-2006); Southern Star (Cork, 1892-2000) and Tuam Herald (Galway, 1994-2000).

Irish Family Research. This paid site offers access to online databases including directories and the Memorials of the Dead Database c1500s-1910 with many of the transcribed headstones no longer in existence.

Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland contain information on Ireland and its relations with Britain from extensive social inquiries and census enumerations to transcripts of semi-literate emigrant letters. Worth a search for surnames and placenames of interest.

Irish Origins index and digital images of the Griffith's Valuation (1847-1864) records and maps. Other records include Irish Wills index (1484-1858), Dublin City census 1851 and 1901, Diocese of Elphin census 1749, tithe defaulters 1831, militia attestations index (1872-1915), William Smith O'Brien petition (1848-1849), British and Irish  passenger lists 1890, transatlantic migration 1858-1870, Irish 'strays' in England & Wales census (1841 & 1871) plus access to photos, maps and books. There is a free name and place search. A fee applies to access the records.

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland online indexes include:
Freeholders' Records which list those who were entitled to vote at elections or those who actually did vote. Over 5,500 digitised images from pre-1840 registers and poll books are linked to the name index.
The Ulster Covenant was signed in September 1912 by over 500,000 people who opposed Home Rule for Ireland. These signatures have been digitised and indexed and are fully searchable.
Will Calendars project to index and digitise early wills proved in the district probate registries of Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry 1858 to c1900.

National Archives of Ireland online Index to the Famine Relief Commission Papers (1845-1847). These papers include distress reports and incoming letters.

Act of Union Virtual Library is a unique collection of pamphlets, newspapers, parliamentary papers and manuscript material contemporary with the 1801 Act of Union between Ireland and Britain. The site is searchable by keyword and digital copies of the original documents are available.

National Archives and Records Administration. Scroll down to Most Requested then click on Immigration Records and then scroll down to Famine Irish Passenger Records. These list over 604,596 persons who arrived in New York during the Irish Famine (1846-1851) and the ship of arrival.

PawredGeneral Information
GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy. This extensive gateway site has an alphabetical list of sites relating to all aspects of Irish research. A must to visit.

RootsWeb Mailing Lists for Ireland (87). A great way to find others with similar research interests.

FamilySearch. Click on Search then Research Helps then the letter I for access to a series of excellent guides for Irish research.

Irish History Online. A bibliography of Irish history (1936-2003), created by Writings on Irish History online in association with the Royal Historical Society.

Irish Famine Memorial, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney. This site offers detailed information about this Australian monument to the Great Irish Famine. It also details the Earl Grey Scheme that enabled 4,000+ adolescent female orphans to emigrate from Irish workhouses to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide 1848-1850. Click on Orphans then Ships for a list of the ships that brought these girls. There are also shipping lists online for selected ships.

Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association. This site has wealth of information on Ireland in the Great War (1914-1918). About 200,000 Irish people served in the Allied forces in the Great War and over 35,000 of those died on the battlefields.

Royal Munster Fusiliers. This well designed extensive site is dedicated to this Irish Regiment of the British Army that was disbanded in 1922. Contains detailed historical information, timelines, information on uniforms, graves and memorials plus photographs, biographies and much more.

Irish War Memorials. This site includes photographs of each memorial, the text of all inscriptions and site location details. The online database can be surname searched for individuals.

Jo Mitchell's homepage features an Irish Churches Project  where researchers are able to view pictures of the churches attended by their ancestors. There are hundreds of photographs arranged by denomination and then by diocese. Most of the photographs have been donated by fellow researchers.

Nick Reddan's Newspaper Abstracts with 11,300+ abstracts from various Irish newspapers (1750-1840) sorted by selected family names. Papers include the Freeman's Journal, Dublin Weekly Journal, Hoey's Dublin Mercury, Pue's Occurrences, Belfast Newsletter and Limerick newspapers.

Moving Here provides free online access to resources which record and illustrate the migration of the Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian communities to England over the past two centuries.

Clann Chaomhánach - Origin & Early history of the Kavanagh/Cavanaugh Family. This site is a great example of an Irish clan site. There is lots of interesting information and articles.

PawredMaps, Place Names and Surnames
See also Counties Clare, Galway, Mayo and Sligo
Ireland's Historical Mapping Archive 1829-1913. This paid site contains digital copies of Ireland's Ordnance Survey maps. There are over 30,000, very detailed maps, of Irish localities spanning 1829 to 1847 and 1888 to 1913. This site is searchable by county or townland. There are several subscription options available including 5 euros for one day's access.

Irish Ancestors Placename Search   of 65,000+ entries from 1851 General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland. Free searches include a list of the placenames in the civil parish, adjoining parishes list, most common surnames 1855 list and a summary of sources for the parish. A fee is required to access the source details plus other site features.

The IreAtlas Townland Database. Features online searching by townland, county, barony, parish or poor law union. A great site for locating Irish place names.

Ireland's History in Maps by Dennis Walsh.

Online Irish Names Directory. This site is a surname gateway site. The surname lists are arranged by county and can be searched online. It is also possible to add surnames being researched to this site

PawredResources and Societies - Alphabetical by County
Genealogical Society of Ireland. 

Irish Family History Society.

Irish Family History Foundation coordinates the network of genealogical research centres in Ireland. There are links to the research centres plus details of the Online Research System currently available for Armagh, Cork, Dublin, Fermanagh, Galway West, Kildare, Leitrim, Roscommon, Tipperary and Tyrone.

Irish Genealogical Society International (USA).assists those researching Irish and Scots-Irish ancestry. There is a useful list of Irish genealogy links arranged geographically.

Ulster Historical Foundation  online databases offer access to over 2 million records.

North of Ireland Family History Society with branches at Ballymena, Belfast, Coleraine, Killyleagh, Larne, Lisburn, Mourne, Newtownabbey, North Down & Ards, Omagh and Portadown. 

Ireland Genealogy Projects with links to a website for each county. This site is an excellent starting point to locate local information, resources and links.

The IrelandGenWeb Project offers a local resource site for each county with information and links.

A Little Bit of Ireland by Cathy Joynt Labath. This extensive site contains useful online databases particularly for counties Clare, Galway, Limerick, Mayo and Roscommon. A site search engine enables quick and easy searching of this site.

Clogher Historical Society for those researching in Fermanagh, Monaghan and South Tyrone.

PawredAntrim
Ulster Historical Foundation Newonline database of birth, death and marriage parish records for counties Antrim and Down. A free index search lists surname, first name, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record. 

County Antrim Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

Northern Ireland Genweb County Antrim with information, resources and links.       

Ballymoney Ancestry provides information for those researching Northern Ireland family history, specifically in the Ballymoney area. The free online database offers access to a variety of records.

PawredArmagh
Armagh Ancestry Online database of birth, death and marriage records. A free index search lists surname, first name, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

County Armagh Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

Northern Ireland Genweb County Armagh with information, resources and links.

PawredCarlow
County Carlow Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

IrelandGenWeb County Carlow with information, resources and links.

PawredCavan
IrelandGenWeb County Cavan with information, resources and links.

Cavan Genealogy New online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists surname, first name, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

Al Beagan's Genealogy Notes of County Cavan.

PawredClare
See also Census Records
County Clare Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

IrelandGenweb County Clare with information, resources and links.

Clare County Library. offers extensive information on Clare history, place names and people. Online indexes include directories, 1901 census, 1841 and 1851 census search applications, Griffith's Valuation, Clare Champion newspaper biographical notices, online survey maps plus parish record status details. There is also extensive image and map collections online.

Historical Maps of County Clare. The online 1842 Ordnance Survey 6 inch maps of County Clare are searchable by town, townland and monument.

PawredCork
See also Kerry
Cork Genealogical Society.

Mallow Archaeological & Historical Society (County Cork, Ireland). There is an extensive range of online material that focuses on the Mallow area in North Cork plus many useful links.

Mallow Heritage Centre Online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists names, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

County Cork with detailed information and links for research in County Cork by the Rootsweb County Cork, Cork City and Genexchange Cork mailing lists.  

Fáilte Romhat by John Hayes with an immense amount of material for  County Cork Research. It includes directories, landowners, parish information, maps and more.

County Cork Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

Famine Orphans from County Cork to Australia by Mallow Archaeological & Historical Society. An alphabetical list of the young girls sent to Australia between October 1848 and August 1850. The list shows name, age, year, place of origin, parents, religion and ship of arrival.

This site offers access to scanned images of the Index to Cork and Ross Wills 1548-1800. They are arranged alphabetically and list name, place and date of probate.

PawredDonegal
Donegal Genealogy Resources. This extensive site features 1,000+ pages of transcriptions including passenger lists for eight ships carrying Donegal Relief Fund passengers to Sydney (1858-1864).

County Donegal Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

IrelandGenweb County Donegal with information, resources and links.

PawredDown
County Down Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

Ros Davies' County Down, Ireland Genealogy Research Site offers access to extensive resources.

Down County Museum. Online data services include a prisoners database with information on over 300 prisoners held at Down Gaol plus details of Down convicts transported from Ireland. 

Ulster Historical Foundation Newonline database of birth, death and marriage parish records for counties Antrim and Down. A free index search lists surname, first name, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record. 

PawredDublin
See also Census Records
IrelandGenWeb Project - County Dublin. This site offers information, resources and links.

County Dublin Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

Swords Heritage Centre (Dublin North) Online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists names, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

Dun Laoghaire Heritage Centre (South) Online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists names, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

Shaw's Dublin City Directory 1850 indexed by Trish Loughman.

PawredFermanagh
Northern Ireland Genweb County Fermanagh. This site offers information, resources and links.

County Fermanagh Ireland Genealogical Project with information, resources and links.

Irish World Heritage Centre Online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists names, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

PawredGalway
IrelandGenWeb Galway. This site includes information, resources, transcriptions, a list of personal homepages, surname interests plus much more.

County Galway Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

County Galway Surname List. surnames are listed with their researchers' e-mail or postal addresses to assist in making connections with researchers with similar interests.

East Galway Family History Society  New online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists surname, first name, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

West Galway Family History Society Online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists names, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

Forthill Cemetery (Galway City) burial records are online.

Galway County and City Library's online access to the 1842 Ordnance Survey 6-inch maps for Galway.

PawredKerry
County Kerry Genealogy. This site offers information, resources and links.

This site is an introduction, and finding aid, to the Casey Collection for counties Kerry and Cork by Albert Eugene Casey titled, Index of O'Kief, Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher, and Upper Blackwater in Ireland. This collection is held by the National Library of Australia, Canberra.

Casey Bibliography. This site summarises what is available in each of the sixteen volumes of the Casey Collection. Over three million county Kerry and Cork names are recorded in this collection.

PawredKildare
County Kildare Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

County Kildare Federation of Local History Groups. The Federation covers Allen/Carbury, Athy, Ballymore Eustace, Caragh, Celbridge, Clane, Curragh, Donadea, Kilcock, Kilcullen, Kildare, Kill, Maynooth, Monasterevin, Naas, Newbridge, Rathcoffey and Timahoe.

Kildare Genealogy Online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists names, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

PawredKilkenny
County Kilkenny Ireland Genealogy and History. This site offers a wealth of online resources.

County Kilkenny Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

Rothe House Trust Ltd, County Kilkenny, New online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists surname, first name, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

PawredLaois (Queen's)
See also Offaly
County Laois (Queen's) Ireland Genealogical Project offering information, resources and links.

IrelandGenWeb County Laois with information, resources and links.

Griffith's Valuation Extracts for selected Laois parishes. 

PawredLeitrim
See also Census Records
County Leitrim Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

IrelandGenWeb County Leitrim with information, resources and links.

The Leitrim-Roscommon Genealogy Web Site by Roger McDonnell with online databases for surnames, townlands, Griffiths Valuation, full 1901 census transcripts plus much more. Parts of counties Galway, Limerick, Mayo, Sligo, Westmeath and Wexford are also covered by the databases.

Leitrim Genealogy Centre Online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists names, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

PawredLimerick
County Limerick Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

IrelandGenWeb County Limerick Genealogy with information, resources and links.

Limerick Genealogy New online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists surname, first name, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

PawredLondonderry
County Londonderry Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

Northern Ireland Genweb County Londonderry. This site offers information, resources and links.

PawredLongford
Longford Genealogy  Newonline database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists surname, first name, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

County Longford Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

PawredLouth
County Louth,Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

Louth Country Library New online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists surname, first name, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

PawredMayo
See also Census Records
County Mayo Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

Mayo County Library's online access to the 1838 Ordnance Survey 6-inch maps for Mayo. 

Mayo Family History Centres New online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists surname, first name, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

PawredMeath
County Meath Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

IrelandGenWeb County Meath with information, resources and links.

PawredMonaghan
County Monaghan Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links with an Australian flavour.

IrelandGenWeb County Monaghan with information, resources and links.

PawredOffaly (King's)
Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society.

Irish Midlands Ancestry. A site for those with an interest in counties Laois and Offaly.

County Offaly (King's) Ireland Genealogical Project offering information, resources and links.

PawredRoscommon
See also Census Records
County Roscommon Family History Society. This site offers access to the Roscommon Town Workhouse Deaths Index which dates from the mid 1800s to the end of the century.

County Roscommon Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

Roscommon Heritage & Genealogy Company Online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists names, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

PawredSligo
See also Census Records
County Sligo Ireland Genealogical Project. This site is in the process of development.

IrelandGenWeb County Sligo with information, resources and links.

Sligo County Library online access to 1837 Ordnance Survey 6-inch maps for Sligo.

PawredTipperary
County Tipperary Historical Society.

County Tipperary Ireland Genealogical Project with information, resources and links. There is access to Tipperary Newspaper Clippings with numerous online newspaper transcripts, relating to Tipperary, from a wide variety of newspapers.

IrelandGenWeb County Tipperary with information, resources and links.

North Tipperary Genealogy Centre Online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists names, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

Bru Boru Cultural Centre (Tipperary South) Online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists names, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

Tipperary Surnames. A site where you can search for surnames or add surnames being researched.

PawredTyrone
County Tyrone Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

Northern Ireland Genweb County Tyrone with information, resources and links.

County Tyrone by Jane Lyons. This site offers access to a wide variety of online resources.

Irish World Heritage Centre Online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists names, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

County Tyrone Genealogy. This site contains useful information, surname index, photographs including church photographs, parish information and access to a variety of online databases.

Online resources for County Tyrone research by the County Tyrone Mailing List.

PawredWaterford
Waterford County Library UpOnline Resources include death registers (1864-1901), war and gravestone memorial databases plus details from Griffith's Valuation (1848-1864) for County Waterford, searchable by townland or surname, Waterford trade directories (1824-1910) and more. .

County Waterford Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

PawredWestmeath
IrelandGenWeb County Westmeath. This site offers information, resources and links.

County Westmeath Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

Dún na Sí Heritage Centre, County Westmeath, New online database of birth, death and marriage parish records. A free index search lists surname, first name, year and county. There is a cost of €5.00 to view a detailed record.

PawredWexford
County Wexford Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

IrelandGenWeb County Wexford with information, resources and links.

PawredWicklow
County Wicklow Ireland Genealogical Project. This site offers information, resources and links.

IrelandGenWeb County Wicklow with information, resources and links.

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