County Cork 
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Basic Ingredients

Co. Cork Civil Parishes Map (John Grenham)
Co. Cork Roman Catholic Parishes Map (John Grenham)

Co. Cork Genealogical Records (John Grenham)
Co. Cork GENUKI
Co. Cork IGP

Mallow Heritage Centre (Cork NorthEast) (RootsIreland)
Skibbereen Heritage Centre (Cork West) (RootsIreland)​

Cork City & County Archives
Cork Local Studies Library

Chef's Recommendations

Cork has lots of small parishes so it's probably always worth checking adjoining parishes for your ancestors too.

The Irish Ancestors maps do not seem to have anything that you can zoom in on for the Cork city parishes - does anyone know of a good online source for this?  However, I did discover this page of Maps of Cork, ranging from 1545 up to the end of the Victorian period, so hopefully these will help you with approximate parish extents. See also this map - Cork (1832).

Cork City Council have also constructed a marvellous website dedicated to helping you both research your ancestors and learn more about the history of the county - check out ​Cork Local Studies Collections for some excellent resources.

Cork County Library and Arts Service has also published an online guide for researching your ancestors in the county.  The majority of the content does seem to be just guidance to using national resources, but the Roman Catholic parishes index is very clear - see Cork County Library Family History Booklet.

The Royal Irish Academy Historic Towns Atlas has an edition for Bandon.  Explore the history of the town and enjoy the maps.  There also used to be online access to parts of an edition for Youghal but this no longer appears to be accessible.  You can of course buy the printed version from the RIA bookshop.

John Hayes' Failte Romhat website also has some directories relating to both the city and county of Cork as follows;

• Richard Lucas' Directory of Cork City, 1787
• Holden's Triennial Directory of Cork, 1809
• Postal Directory for Cork City and County, 1842-43
• Guy's Postal Directory for County Cork, 1914
• Guy's Postal Directory for Cork City, 1914

Dr. Albert E. Casey is your new best friend if you have Co. Cork ancestors - learn more about his unique resource, "O'Kief Coshe Mang", at the bottom of my Chefs - Irish Genies page.

Similarly, Michael Leader was another enthusiastic transcriber of Co. Cork records but his work is only available to IGRS members whenever they find somewhere to relocate their physical library or create any digital versions (DEC 2021).

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