"Snacks" - Irish Genealogical Websites
OK, you've had a good roam through the other pages and have found some great Irish research resources but you don't want to have to keep picking your way through the text to access them all the time. So, welcome to the Snack Drawer, you know the one you raid in the kitchen when you're peckish!
Basically, here are some of the most useful Irish web links arranged alphabetically without any other text so you can find what you want quickly (see my Abbreviations page to remind yourself of any unfamiliar labels in brackets.) For more general genealogical websites that can also help with Irish research, have a rummage in the Store Cupboard.
We all know that snacking between meals can be bad for us, so just a reminder on what you can expect to see - enjoy sensibly!
Basically, here are some of the most useful Irish web links arranged alphabetically without any other text so you can find what you want quickly (see my Abbreviations page to remind yourself of any unfamiliar labels in brackets.) For more general genealogical websites that can also help with Irish research, have a rummage in the Store Cupboard.
We all know that snacking between meals can be bad for us, so just a reminder on what you can expect to see - enjoy sensibly!
- All are FREE to access unless otherwise stated e.g. (£) or (members only.) Some may require you to register.
- Many of them are searchable databases of names or are links to the main reference sites for Irish institutions or resources.
- Those italicised and enclosed in "quotes" and/or suffixed with (e-book) will take you to some pretty huge files that can usually be browsed and text-searched on screen or optionally you may be able to download the entire volume if you wish.
- Those suffixed with someone's name are either the work of generous fellow genies, past and present. These are either in the form of published transcripts rather than original images (so are subject to the usual cautions about possible transcription errors) or are blogs or independent web sites with records and / or great finding aids or articles. I can't vouch wholeheartedly for their authenticity or opinions of course - you will have to make up your own mind.
- I do try to check out all the links from time to time but inevitably some may become unavailable or broken - please let me know via my contact form and I will attempt to re-link to them.
- Finally, I strongly recommend that you have good anti-virus/firewall software switched on when browsing - I haven't had any problems so far with accessing these sites, but I'm afraid that might not hold true forever - mindless idiots and evil shysters think it's fun to wreak havoc with malware and we can but try to protect ourselves against them with whatever tools we have.
My Own Special Ingredients
Church of Ireland Parish Records Finder by County (scroll down on linked page)
Registry of Deeds Townlands Indexes Timelines by County (scroll down on linked page)
Church of Ireland Parish Records Finder by County (scroll down on linked page)
Registry of Deeds Townlands Indexes Timelines by County (scroll down on linked page)
Third Party Websites for Irish Research
1901 & 1911 Censuses (NAI)
1841 / 1851 Census Search Forms (NAI)
Alumni Dublinenses (1593-1846), Pub. 1924 (FMP=£, indexed)
"Alumni Dublinenses (1593-1860), Pub. 1936" (TCD Digitised book)
ANCESTRY Irish Collections (Anc=£)
Ancient Freemen of Dublin (DH)
Anglican Record Project (CoI)
Apothecaries in Ireland, 1791-1829
"Ardagh Wills Index" (see Pg.1) (Rosemary ffolliott)
AskAboutIreland digital book collection (e-books)
Belfast City Council Burial Records
Betham's Genealogical Abstracts (FMP=£)
Boston College Libraries' Irish History books (e-books)
British India Office Army and Navy Pensions (FMP=£)
British India Office Births and Baptisms (FMP=£)
British India Office Deaths and Burials (FMP=£)
British India Office Marriages (FMP=£)
British India Office Wills and Probate (FMP=£)
Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead (Ian Cantwell's archived website)
Catholic Parish and Church Search by Location (Shane Wilson)
Catholic Directory of 1848 (Shane Wilson)
Catholic Qualification and Convert Rolls (1700-1845) (NAI)
Cavan Townlands (Michael McShane)
Centre for Irish Genealogical and Historical Studies (Sean Murphy)
Church of Ireland Parish Finder (Shane Wilson)
Church of Ireland Parish Search Forms (FMP=£)
"Church of Ireland Parish Registers on Microfilm" (NAI)
Church of Ireland - Table of All Parish Registers throughout Ireland (RCBL)
Civil Parish Maps by County (John Grenham)
Civil Registration Indexes and Register Images (GROI)
"Clonfert Marriage Licence Bonds, Wills and Administration Bonds" (*** STARTS ON Pg. 23) (Rosemary ffolliott)
"Cloyne Marriage Licence Bonds" (T. George H. Green, 1899-1900) (e-book)
"Cork and Ross Marriage Licence Bonds, 1623-1750" (e-book)
Crew and Shipping Records (1860-1921) (NAI)
Crockford's Clerical Directories, UK (Anc=£)
Diocesan and Prerogative Marriage Licence Bonds Indexes (1623-1866) (NAI)
Diocesan and Prerogative Wills (1595-1858) (NAI)
Dublin Directory 1647-1706 (DH) (composite database from multiple sources)
Dublin Graveyards Directory (DH)
Dublin Heritage (DH)
Dublin Map 1798
Dublin Street Names
Early Irish Birth Index (IGRS - members only)
Early Irish Death Index (IGRS - members only)
Early Irish Marriage Index (IGRS - free to search)
Emerald Ancestors (£)
Electoral Lists (Dublin) 1908-1915 (DH)
Families in British India Society (FIBIS)
FAMILYSEARCH Irish Collections (LDS)
"Ferns Marriage Licence Bonds, 1661-1806" (Henry Hollingsworth)
FIBIS Wiki page on Church Records in India
FindaGrave (Republic of Ireland cemeteries)
FindaGrave (Northern Ireland cemeteries)
FindMyPast's BMD District Map
FINDMYPAST Irish Collections - Source specific search screens (FMP=£)
FINDMYPAST Irish Collections - Source information pages (FMP=£)
Free Maps of Ireland
GROI Manual Certificate Applications
GROI On-line Certificate Applications
GRONI (on-line access to records - login required)
"General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland, 1861" (e-book)
GenUKI - Ireland
Griffith's Valuations (AskAboutIreland)
Griffith's Valuations Publication Years map (Claire Santry)
"A Guide to Church Records" - PRONI
"Guide to Public Records deposited in the Public Record Office of Ireland" (e-book, Herbert Woods 1919 original prefaced by Sean Murphy)
Guide to the National Archives of Ireland (Sean Murphy)
Historic Maps of Dublin (Shane Wilson)
Historic Maps of Dublin (UCD)
Index to Irish Diocesan Marriage Licences (LDS Microfilms Refs)
IreAtlas Townlands Database (aka Seanruad)
Ireland Genealogical Projects (IGP)
Irish Ancestors (John Grenham)
Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS)
Irish Genealogy (Church Records) (DCHG)
Irish Genealogy (Civil Records) (DCHG)
Irish Genealogy News (Claire Santry's blog)
Irish Genealogy Toolkit (Claire Santry)
Irish in the American Civil War (Damien Shiels)
Index of Free Irish e-Books (Peter Clarke)
"Irish Landed Gentry" (John O'Hart, 1887) (e-book)
Irish Lives Remembered (e-magazine)
Irish Manuscripts Commission digitised out of print publications
Irish Roots (John Grenham's blog)
"Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810 (Sir Arthur Vicars, 1897)" (e-book)
Irish Historic Towns Atlas (RIA)
Irish Townlands
Irish Directories Database (Shane Wilson & Joe Buggy)
Jacob's Law Dictionary
John Speed's Map of Dublin (1610)
Journals of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, 1888-1916 (see year list on my page)
Kildare Diocese Wills (e-book)
Kilkenny City Map 1780
Kindred Ancestry
Landed Court Rentals 1850-1885 (FMP=£)
"Leighlin Administration Intestates" (*** STARTS ON Pg.62) ( Rosemary ffolliott)
Methodist Historical Society of Ireland
National Archives of Ireland Genealogy Databases (NAI)
National Library of Ireland (NLI)
New York Herald (browse by year)
New York Times Archive ($ubscription required)
Newspaper Database (NLI)
NLI Catalogue
Old Fulton New York Post Cards (NY State Newspapers)
One-Stop Webpages (Steve Morse) (USA esp. New York)
OpenStreetMap for Ireland
Ordnance Survey Ireland - map viewer (OSI)
Papers Past (New Zealand newspapers)
"Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 1844-45, Volume I, A-C Index" (e-book)
"Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 1844-1845, Volume II, D-M Index" (e-book)
"Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 1844-1845, Volume III, N-Z Index" (e-book)
Penal Transportation Records: Ireland to Australia, 1788-1868 (NAI)
Pettigrew & Oulton Dublin Almanac, 1842 (Failte Romhat)
Pigot & Co's Provincial Directory of Ireland, 1824 (Failte Romhat)
Placename Search (John Grenham)
Placenames Database of Ireland (DCHG)
Placenames Northern Ireland
Poor Law Union Map (John Grenham)
"A Primer of Irish Genealogy" (Sean Murphy)
PRONI
"Raphoe Marriage Licence Bonds, 1710-155 & 1817-1830" (*** STARTS ON Pg.45) (Rosemary ffolliott)
RCBL Catalogues (CoI)
RCBL Parish Registers (CoI)
Registration District Browser (Shane Wilson)
Registration Districts of Ireland, 1871 (Michael Thompson)
"Registry of Deeds Dublin Abstract of Wills Vol. 1, 1708-1745" (Beryl Eustace)
"Registry of Deeds Dublin Abstract of Wills Vol. 2, 1746-1785" (Beryl Eustace)
"Registry of Deeds Dublin Abstract of Wills Vol. 3, 1785-1831" (Beryl Eustace)
Registry of Deeds Index Project Ireland (Nick Reddan)
Roots Ireland (IFHF) (Subscription required)
Roots Ireland - Sources by County (IFHF)
Roman Catholic Parish Maps & Record References by County (John Grenham)
Roman Catholic Parish Registers (NLI)
Roman Catholic Parish Finder (Shane Wilson)
Scottish Genes (Chris Paton's blog)
Slater's Commercial Directory of Ireland, 1846 (Failte Romhat)
Soldiers Wills from the First World War (NAI)
"Sources in the National Archives for research into the transportation of Irish convicts to Australia (1791-1853)" (NAI)
SWilson.Info (Shane Wilson)
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory, 1850 (e-book)
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory, 1862 (selected city, county & borough transcripts)
Tithe Applotment Books, 1823-1837 (NAI)
"Topological Dictionary of Ireland (Samuel Lewis, 1837)" (e-book)
Town - RC Parish Finder (Shane Wilson)
Townland of Origin (Joe Buggy's North American focused website)
Townland Maps of Northern Ireland (GRONI - login required)
Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills, 1708-1929 (LDS digitised microfilms for Registry of Deeds)
Trove Digitised Newspapers (Australia)
University College Dublin OSI Town Maps
University College Dublin Map Collections
UK Medical Registers, 1859 - 1959 (Anc=£)
Ulster Historical Foundation (Subscription required)
Valuation Office, Dublin
Valuation Office Books (1824-1856) (NAI)
Valuation Revision Books, 1864-1933 (PRONI) (browse by location)
"Varieties and Synonymes of Surnames and Christian Names in Ireland (RE Matheson, 1901)" (e-book)
Will Calendars, 1858-1920 (NAI)
Will Calendars from 1922 (Chris Paton's links to NAI PDFs by year)
Wills and Administrations advice and post-1922 links (CIGO)
Will Calendars, 1858-1965 (PRONI)
Will Registers (1858-1900) (NAI)
Workhouses in Ireland (Peter Higginbottom)
1901 & 1911 Censuses (NAI)
1841 / 1851 Census Search Forms (NAI)
Alumni Dublinenses (1593-1846), Pub. 1924 (FMP=£, indexed)
"Alumni Dublinenses (1593-1860), Pub. 1936" (TCD Digitised book)
ANCESTRY Irish Collections (Anc=£)
Ancient Freemen of Dublin (DH)
Anglican Record Project (CoI)
Apothecaries in Ireland, 1791-1829
"Ardagh Wills Index" (see Pg.1) (Rosemary ffolliott)
AskAboutIreland digital book collection (e-books)
Belfast City Council Burial Records
Betham's Genealogical Abstracts (FMP=£)
Boston College Libraries' Irish History books (e-books)
British India Office Army and Navy Pensions (FMP=£)
British India Office Births and Baptisms (FMP=£)
British India Office Deaths and Burials (FMP=£)
British India Office Marriages (FMP=£)
British India Office Wills and Probate (FMP=£)
Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead (Ian Cantwell's archived website)
Catholic Parish and Church Search by Location (Shane Wilson)
Catholic Directory of 1848 (Shane Wilson)
Catholic Qualification and Convert Rolls (1700-1845) (NAI)
Cavan Townlands (Michael McShane)
Centre for Irish Genealogical and Historical Studies (Sean Murphy)
Church of Ireland Parish Finder (Shane Wilson)
Church of Ireland Parish Search Forms (FMP=£)
"Church of Ireland Parish Registers on Microfilm" (NAI)
Church of Ireland - Table of All Parish Registers throughout Ireland (RCBL)
Civil Parish Maps by County (John Grenham)
Civil Registration Indexes and Register Images (GROI)
"Clonfert Marriage Licence Bonds, Wills and Administration Bonds" (*** STARTS ON Pg. 23) (Rosemary ffolliott)
"Cloyne Marriage Licence Bonds" (T. George H. Green, 1899-1900) (e-book)
"Cork and Ross Marriage Licence Bonds, 1623-1750" (e-book)
Crew and Shipping Records (1860-1921) (NAI)
Crockford's Clerical Directories, UK (Anc=£)
Diocesan and Prerogative Marriage Licence Bonds Indexes (1623-1866) (NAI)
Diocesan and Prerogative Wills (1595-1858) (NAI)
Dublin Directory 1647-1706 (DH) (composite database from multiple sources)
Dublin Graveyards Directory (DH)
Dublin Heritage (DH)
Dublin Map 1798
Dublin Street Names
Early Irish Birth Index (IGRS - members only)
Early Irish Death Index (IGRS - members only)
Early Irish Marriage Index (IGRS - free to search)
Emerald Ancestors (£)
Electoral Lists (Dublin) 1908-1915 (DH)
Families in British India Society (FIBIS)
FAMILYSEARCH Irish Collections (LDS)
"Ferns Marriage Licence Bonds, 1661-1806" (Henry Hollingsworth)
FIBIS Wiki page on Church Records in India
FindaGrave (Republic of Ireland cemeteries)
FindaGrave (Northern Ireland cemeteries)
FindMyPast's BMD District Map
FINDMYPAST Irish Collections - Source specific search screens (FMP=£)
FINDMYPAST Irish Collections - Source information pages (FMP=£)
Free Maps of Ireland
GROI Manual Certificate Applications
GROI On-line Certificate Applications
GRONI (on-line access to records - login required)
"General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland, 1861" (e-book)
GenUKI - Ireland
Griffith's Valuations (AskAboutIreland)
Griffith's Valuations Publication Years map (Claire Santry)
"A Guide to Church Records" - PRONI
"Guide to Public Records deposited in the Public Record Office of Ireland" (e-book, Herbert Woods 1919 original prefaced by Sean Murphy)
Guide to the National Archives of Ireland (Sean Murphy)
Historic Maps of Dublin (Shane Wilson)
Historic Maps of Dublin (UCD)
Index to Irish Diocesan Marriage Licences (LDS Microfilms Refs)
IreAtlas Townlands Database (aka Seanruad)
Ireland Genealogical Projects (IGP)
Irish Ancestors (John Grenham)
Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS)
Irish Genealogy (Church Records) (DCHG)
Irish Genealogy (Civil Records) (DCHG)
Irish Genealogy News (Claire Santry's blog)
Irish Genealogy Toolkit (Claire Santry)
Irish in the American Civil War (Damien Shiels)
Index of Free Irish e-Books (Peter Clarke)
"Irish Landed Gentry" (John O'Hart, 1887) (e-book)
Irish Lives Remembered (e-magazine)
Irish Manuscripts Commission digitised out of print publications
Irish Roots (John Grenham's blog)
"Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810 (Sir Arthur Vicars, 1897)" (e-book)
Irish Historic Towns Atlas (RIA)
Irish Townlands
Irish Directories Database (Shane Wilson & Joe Buggy)
Jacob's Law Dictionary
John Speed's Map of Dublin (1610)
Journals of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, 1888-1916 (see year list on my page)
Kildare Diocese Wills (e-book)
Kilkenny City Map 1780
Kindred Ancestry
Landed Court Rentals 1850-1885 (FMP=£)
"Leighlin Administration Intestates" (*** STARTS ON Pg.62) ( Rosemary ffolliott)
Methodist Historical Society of Ireland
National Archives of Ireland Genealogy Databases (NAI)
National Library of Ireland (NLI)
New York Herald (browse by year)
New York Times Archive ($ubscription required)
Newspaper Database (NLI)
NLI Catalogue
Old Fulton New York Post Cards (NY State Newspapers)
One-Stop Webpages (Steve Morse) (USA esp. New York)
OpenStreetMap for Ireland
Ordnance Survey Ireland - map viewer (OSI)
Papers Past (New Zealand newspapers)
"Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 1844-45, Volume I, A-C Index" (e-book)
"Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 1844-1845, Volume II, D-M Index" (e-book)
"Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 1844-1845, Volume III, N-Z Index" (e-book)
Penal Transportation Records: Ireland to Australia, 1788-1868 (NAI)
Pettigrew & Oulton Dublin Almanac, 1842 (Failte Romhat)
Pigot & Co's Provincial Directory of Ireland, 1824 (Failte Romhat)
Placename Search (John Grenham)
Placenames Database of Ireland (DCHG)
Placenames Northern Ireland
Poor Law Union Map (John Grenham)
"A Primer of Irish Genealogy" (Sean Murphy)
PRONI
"Raphoe Marriage Licence Bonds, 1710-155 & 1817-1830" (*** STARTS ON Pg.45) (Rosemary ffolliott)
RCBL Catalogues (CoI)
RCBL Parish Registers (CoI)
Registration District Browser (Shane Wilson)
Registration Districts of Ireland, 1871 (Michael Thompson)
"Registry of Deeds Dublin Abstract of Wills Vol. 1, 1708-1745" (Beryl Eustace)
"Registry of Deeds Dublin Abstract of Wills Vol. 2, 1746-1785" (Beryl Eustace)
"Registry of Deeds Dublin Abstract of Wills Vol. 3, 1785-1831" (Beryl Eustace)
Registry of Deeds Index Project Ireland (Nick Reddan)
Roots Ireland (IFHF) (Subscription required)
Roots Ireland - Sources by County (IFHF)
Roman Catholic Parish Maps & Record References by County (John Grenham)
Roman Catholic Parish Registers (NLI)
Roman Catholic Parish Finder (Shane Wilson)
Scottish Genes (Chris Paton's blog)
Slater's Commercial Directory of Ireland, 1846 (Failte Romhat)
Soldiers Wills from the First World War (NAI)
"Sources in the National Archives for research into the transportation of Irish convicts to Australia (1791-1853)" (NAI)
SWilson.Info (Shane Wilson)
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory, 1850 (e-book)
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory, 1862 (selected city, county & borough transcripts)
Tithe Applotment Books, 1823-1837 (NAI)
"Topological Dictionary of Ireland (Samuel Lewis, 1837)" (e-book)
Town - RC Parish Finder (Shane Wilson)
Townland of Origin (Joe Buggy's North American focused website)
Townland Maps of Northern Ireland (GRONI - login required)
Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills, 1708-1929 (LDS digitised microfilms for Registry of Deeds)
Trove Digitised Newspapers (Australia)
University College Dublin OSI Town Maps
University College Dublin Map Collections
UK Medical Registers, 1859 - 1959 (Anc=£)
Ulster Historical Foundation (Subscription required)
Valuation Office, Dublin
Valuation Office Books (1824-1856) (NAI)
Valuation Revision Books, 1864-1933 (PRONI) (browse by location)
"Varieties and Synonymes of Surnames and Christian Names in Ireland (RE Matheson, 1901)" (e-book)
Will Calendars, 1858-1920 (NAI)
Will Calendars from 1922 (Chris Paton's links to NAI PDFs by year)
Wills and Administrations advice and post-1922 links (CIGO)
Will Calendars, 1858-1965 (PRONI)
Will Registers (1858-1900) (NAI)
Workhouses in Ireland (Peter Higginbottom)
