Sources
Sources that are only relevant to one page will be found on that page.
Sources that are only relevant to one family will be found on the home page
for that family.
- Computers and the Internet can now greatly enhance a library visit:
- Bring laptop with all my files.
- Bring PDA
with all my files on SD card.
- PDA / laptop
on mobile phone network / Wi-Fi.
- Library has plug for PDA / laptop.
- Library provides you with computer at desk.
- There still remains though the age-old problem that
the library you want is far away,
and it may be years before your next visit.
Again, Computers and the Internet could help:
- Ultimately, libraries publish everything
on the Web, so we can research at home.
-
Combined web catalog
of UK libraries including TCD
-
Combined web catalog
of Irish libraries including TCD
- UnityWeb
- The Library Council of Ireland
- Timeline of Internet genealogy
- irishgenealogy.ie
(free government site)
- Parish records - Dublin, Kerry, Carlow, Cork
- irishorigins.com
- irish-roots.ie
(or irish-roots.net)
(Irish Family History Foundation)
- irishfamilyresearch.co.uk
- familyrelatives.com
- NLI
- National Library of Ireland
- GO - Genealogical Office
and the Ms room
at the
[NLI]
- NAI -
National Archives of Ireland
- wills
- Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858
- Index to Prerogative Wills of Ireland,
[NLI] RR
- part one,
1536-1810, Sir Arthur Vicars
(see index)
- part two, 1811-58
- Index to Irish Wills,
16th cent-1801,
[NLI] RR,
[NAI] RR
- vols.1-2, W.P.W. Phillimore
- vols.3-5, Gertrude Thrift
- Dublin wills 1634-1858.
- Abstracts of [LR] wills 1708-1832,
[NLI] RR
- Betham's genealogies abstracted from wills
- available on
[NLI] microfilm,
but illegible
- need to see originals in
[NLI] GO Ms 223-54
- marriages
- GROI -
General Register Office
- LR -
Property Registration Authority
(formerly
Land Registry)
- Land Registry
(since 1892)
- Registry of Deeds
(since 1708)
-
Online
(pay-to-view)
- An index may be on microfilm in [LDS.Ir]
- Registry of Deeds Index Project
- Locations
- Current (Dublin) - Land Registry, Setanta Centre,
Nassau St
- Current (Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary) - Land Registry, Cork Road,
Waterford
- Historical archive - Registry of Deeds, Kings Inns, Henrietta St
- Irish house histories research service
- Valuation Office, Irish Life Centre, Abbey Street Lower
- can track successive owners of a property since 1846
- Irish motor taxation
- Irish public libraries
- NGI -
National Gallery of Ireland
(see here)
Education
Professions
Church
Cemeteries
Other
Art
Education
Other
Immigration and passenger lists
Encyclopedia
Biography
- DNB -
Dictionary of National Biography
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary.
- DIB -
Dictionary of Irish Biography
- A Dictionary of Irish Biography,
Henry Boylan
- 100 Irish Lives,
Martin Wallace, London, 1983.
- Louis McRedmond (ed),
Modern Irish Lives: Dictionary of 20th-century Biography,
Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1996.
- A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers,
Anne M.Brady and Brian Cleeve, 1985.
- censusfinder.com
- Religious Census 1766
- Tithe Applotment Survey, 1823-32,
[NAI]
- A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,
Samuel Lewis, 1837,
[NLI],
[NAI],
facsimile pub 1995
- Griffith's Valuation, 1848-64
-
Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland
(also here)
- Owners of Land in Ireland,
Local Government Board, 1876
- The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland (4th edn, 1883)
- Summary of Irish census:
- 19th cent. ones for Ireland are lost or partial
- surviving: 1901, 1911
- next one to be public will be 1926 census in 2026
- Census online
- 1851 Dublin City Census
(between the canals only)
- This was an early CD that is very hard to use.
You have to go through a program
rather than having the data as PDF files that you can browse.
The program is old (pre-Windows XP).
- Irish census
- UK census, 1901
- Census of Ireland, 1911
-
A Directory of Dublin for the Year 1738,
Dublin City Public Libraries, 2000
- Treble Almanack & Dublin Directory 1783
- Dublin Almanac 1806
- The Treble Almanac 1812
- The Treble Almanac 1817
- The Treble Almanac 1818
- The Treble Almanac 1822
- Pigot's Provincial Directory of Ireland 1824
- The Treble Almanac 1829
- Pettigrew & Oulton's directory, 1835,
[NLI Ms] RR
- The Dublin Almanac & General Register of Ireland 1836
- Dublin Almanac 1838
- Shearman's Directory of Waterford, Kilkenny & the southeast 1839
- Pettigrew & Oulton, Dublin Almanac & General Register of Ireland (1845)
- Slater's Commercial Directory of Ireland 1846
- Shaw's Dublin City Directory 1850
(and here)
- Henry & Coughlan's General Directory of Cork & Munster, 1867
- Slater's Commercial Directory of Ireland, 1881
-
Bassett's Directory of Co.Tipperary 1889
- Ashe's Limerick and Clare Directory 1891-92
- Guy's Directory of Munster 1893
- Slater's Royal National Directory of Ireland, 1894
-
Ulster Towns Directory, 1910
- Guy's Limerick Directory, 1912
- Porter's Guide and Directory
for North County Dublin
1912
- Dublin Telephone Directory 1913
- Guy's Postal Directory 1914
for County Cork
- Kenny's Irish manufacturers' directory, 1919
- Dublin Trades Directory, 1931-32
Ireland
- Irish newspapers in the
[BL.NL]
- index of the Freeman's Journal, Dublin, 1763-71,
[BL.NL] microfilm RR
- index of the Hibernian Chronicle, Cork, 1769-75,
index by the [SOG],
[BL.NL] RR
- Irish Times
- Irish Newspaper Archives
- pay to view
- To link to page:
- "Page" view
- Get link from left/right arrow.
- Nick Reddan
(or via here)
- Irish newspaper abstracts
- Freeman's Journal BMD notices 1817-23
- newspaperabstracts.com
- indexes of newspapers
- Rosemary ffolliott
- Biographical notices in Cork, Kerry newspapers, 1756 to 1827,
indexed, by Rosemary ffolliott,
[NLI] RR GO 730,
[NLI] microfilm P.8154,
[BL.NL] microfilm RR
- Biographical notices in Limerick, Ennis, Clonmel, Waterford newspapers, 1758 to 1821,
indexed, by Rosemary ffolliott,
[NLI] RR GO 729,
this may be in [UCD]
- O'Kief, Coshe Mang and Slieve Luachra
(see here
and here),
Albert Casey, 1952-71,
[KCL] RR (vols 1-15 plus index),
[NAI] RR (vols 2-15),
[NLI] Ir 94145 c 12,
[NLS] NE.53.h (vol.6 only)
- BMD for Cork, Kerry, Limerick, etc., from newspapers, indexed:
- 1749 to 1872, in vol.11
- 1781 to 1821, in vol.8
- 1828 to 1864, in vol.6
- Ardfert, Ballymacelligot, Tralee
gravestone inscriptions, indexed in [O'Kief] vol.8
- Apparently also has transcribed par records from Killarney area.
- [King]
indexed in vol.6
- John Hayes
- various indices online.
- libraryireland.com
UK
- Guide to the National Monuments of Ireland,
Peter Harbison, 1970.
- Beranger's Antique Buildings of Ireland,
ed. Peter Harbison, Four Courts Press, 1998
(reproduces the 18th cent. prints
of [NLI] Ms 1958 TX).
- Cooper's Ireland, Peter Harbison, 2000.
- Francis Grose,
The Antiquities of Ireland, 1794.
- Daniel Grose,
The Antiquities of Ireland: A Supplement to Francis Grose,
ed. Roger Stalley, 1991.
-
Georgian mansions in Ireland
by Thomas U. Sadleir and Page L. Dickinson, 1915.
- A guide to Irish country houses,
Mark Bence-Jones, 1988.
This was previously Burke's guide to country houses, 1978.
-
In Ruins: The Once Great Houses of Ireland,
Simon Marsden and Duncan McLaren, 1980, revised 1997.
- Irish Castles,
David Pritchard and Liam Blake, 1993.
- Burke's Peerage
- The old
Burke's Peerage Ltd have gone out of business.
- "Burke's Peerage and Gentry"
are their rightful successor
- the ones who are producing new editions
of the works.
- Not to be confused with:
- Not to be confused with
the
Harold Brooks-Baker
organisation:
- burkes-peerage.com
has now been taken, bizarrely, by
"The Scottish Baronies of Fulwood and Dirleton".
- Burke's Family Index, 1976, ISBN 0-85011-022-X,
[NLI] 9292 b 20,
[GO] RR,
[RDS] REF 929.9,
[TCD] REF 929.7 L6,
[KCL] RR 929.4,
[ECL] CS 25 (76-58135-01, normally RR),
[NLS] 929/2 Biog.D.26.1.B,
[WCL] RR
- Burke's Selection of Arms, 1858-60, 1863
- Reprinted as Burke's Authorised Arms, 1971.
- online
- Burke's Guide to the Royal Family, 1st edn, 1973, ISBN 0-220-66222-3,
[CUL] R493.11, [WCL] RR
- Royal Highness:
Ancestry of the Royal Child,
Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk,
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1982.
- Roderick W. Stuart
- Melville Henry Massue, 9th Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval
Royal Descents
- Burke's Royal Families of England, Scotland and Wales
- 1st edn, 1847-51,
[CUL] R493.10
- 2nd edn, 1876, [CUL] Z496.b.87.1
- indexed in - Index to Family Names appearing in Burke's Royal Families,
A.G.C.Fane, 1932, [CUL] R493.10
- Burke's Royal descents and pedigrees
- 1855-8 edn, [CUL] Oo.14.17
- 1864 edn, [ECL] CS 418 B86 (4431)
- Foster's Royal Descents
- Our Noble and Gentle Families of Royal Descent, Joseph Foster
- 1883 edn,
[SOG] P/R
- 1885 edn,
[TCD] Research Area, Stall 91
- The Royal Lineage of Our Noble And Gentle Families,
Joseph Foster
- Many of Foster's papers are now in the [CUL].
- Debrett's Peerage
- 4th edn, 1790, 3 vols,
vol.2 only is on the web:
- 1825 edn
- 1893 edn
online
- 1923 edn
- 1976 edn, [RDS] REF 929.2
- 1995 edn, [ECL] CS 421 (RR)
- Burke's Peerage,
[CUL] L496.b.8.1, [NLI] 929721 b 16
- 1826 edn online
- 1831 edn online
- 1832 edn online
- 1849 edn
- 1881 edn
- 1885 edn
- 1929 edn
- 1938 edn, [ECL] CS 421 (K81059)
- 104th edn, 1967, [CUL] L496.b.8.105
- 105th edn, 1970 (and subsequent reprints),
[NLI] formerly RR 92972 B 13,
[GO] RR,
[RDS] REF 929.7,
[ECL] WCS 421 (RR),
[CUL] Ref.23.10 (else L496.b.8.109)
- 106th edn, 1999,
[NLI] RR 92972 B 13,
[NLI] GO RR,
[RDS] RR,
[DCU] REF 929.72,
[TCD] Research Area, Stall 91
- 107th edn (latest), 2004
- Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Joseph Foster
- 1st edn, 1880, [NLI] 929721 f 2
- 2nd edn, 1881.
- Many of Foster's papers are now in the [CUL].
- The Scots Peerage,
[TCD] Research Area, Stall 91,
[ECL] W X CS 421 (Scottish RR)
- Burke's Extinct Peerage and Baronetage
- Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerages
- Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetage
- Burke's Knightage, 1841 [think only contemporary Knights, not all-time list]
- New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971, Leslie G. Pine, 1972.
- Cokayne's Complete Peerage and Baronetage
-
The Complete Peerage (extant, extinct or dormant),
George E. Cokayne and other authors and editors
- 1st edn, 8 vols, 1887-98
- 2nd edn, 12 vols, 1910-59,
[NLI] RR,
[TCD] Research Area, Stall 91,
[CUL] R493.30, [ECL] CS 421 (RR)
- repub in photo-reduced size, 6 vols,
by Alan Sutton Pub Ltd, 1982, hardback ISBN 0-904387-82-8, paper bound ISBN 0-86299-442-X,
and by St Martin Ltd, 1984, ISBN 0-312-15836-X,
[GO] RR
- The Complete Baronetage,
George E. Cokayne,
[TCD] Research Area, Stall 91,
[SOG] P/R/LST
- Collins' Peerage of England
- 1741-50 edn
- 3rd edn, 1756
- Lodge's Peerage
- Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, 1789
- The Peerage of the British Empire, 1839
- Peerages of England Scotland & Ireland, 1790
- Cracroft's Peerage, 2000.
- Burke's Landed Gentry, [NLI] 929725
- Burke's Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland
- 1836 or 1838 edn
- 1847 edn
- 1849 edn
- 1862-63 edn
- 1879 edn
- 1882 edn, [ECL] CS 425 (T68548-49)
- 1886 edn
- 1894 edn, [RDS] RR
- 1898 edn, [RDS] REF 929.72
- 15th edn, 1937, [ECL] CS 425 (K47911)
- 1952 edn, [ECL] WCS 425 (T41757)
- 18th edn, 1965-72, [NLI] RR 929725, [RDS] RR REF 929.72,
[TCD] REF 929.7,
[ECL] WCS 425 (3 vols - 67309H, 78049N, 29856X), [WCL] RR
- 19th edn (latest)
- Burke's Landed Gentry Scotland
- Burke's Landed Gentry Scotland, 2001,
[TCD] REF 929.7 A8
- Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland
- 1899 edn
is reprint of
Irish supplement of [Burkes LG, 1898]
- On CD:
- 1904 edn,
[NLI] Ir 929725,
[TCD] Research Area, Stall 91,
[ECL] RR CS 490
- 1912 edn,
[NLI] Ir 929725 b3,
[TCD] REF 929.7 C92
- Irish supplement of
[Burkes LG, 1937]
- 1958 edn
(and here),
[DCU] REF 929.72,
[NLI] Ir RR 929725 b,
[GO] RR,
[KCL] RR,
[ECL] WCS 490 (73905B),
[NLS] 929.72 H5.77.24
-
Burke's Irish Family Records, 1976,
[NLI] RR Ir 9292 b 36,
[GO] RR,
[TCD] Research Area, Stall 91,
[Dundrum Library] REF 929.72,
[KCL] RR 929.4,
[CUL] Ref.23.35 (else L496.b.17.5),
[NLS] 929/2/09415 Biog.D.26.2.B3.
- Burke's Prominent Families of the USA
- Burke's Colonial Gentry
- vol.1, 1891
- vol.2, 1895, [ECL] CS 432 C7 (RR)
- John O'Hart
- Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry, 1884, repub 1969,
[Dundrum Library] REF 929.2.
- Irish Pedigrees
- 1st edn, 1876
- 2nd edn, 1878
- 3rd edn, 1880, repub 1923
- 4th edn, 1887, repub 1888
- 5th edn, 1892, repub 1976, 1989,
[TCD] Research Area, Stall 91
- Gentry of the counties of Ireland, Irish Family Names
- The Tipperary Gentry: Vol 1, William Hayes and Art Kavanagh, 2003.
- Gary Boyd Roberts
- David Faris
- Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth Century Colonists
- Frederick L. Weis
- The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215
- Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists
- Burke's Presidential Families of the USA
- 1st edn, 1975, ISBN 0-85011-017-3, [NLI] RR 920073,
[CUL] try 496.5.b.95.4 or R494.89,
[NLS] 973/0992 H4.83.1141
- 2nd edn, 1981,
[NLS] 973/09/92 Biog.D.13.55.B4
- American Presidential Families, Hugh Brogan and Charles Mosley,
Morris Genealogical Books, 1993, ISBN 0-7509-0582-4, [CUL] R494.89
- The Presidents:
Their Lives, Families and Great Decisions,
articles from the Saturday Evening Post ,
Funk and Wagnalls company (NY) Special Edition,
pub by Curtis Publishing Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana
- Editions in 1980, 1981, 1989, 1993.