Maps & Placenames:
• SWilson.info. Has maps, dataases of townlands and Roman Catholic parishes and much more. Very useful.
• Placenames Database of Ireland.
• Search an 1851 list of placenames.
• 1871 Townland Index.
• Index of Townlands, 1901. With explanations.
• Townland Database.
• Registrars' Districts (Poor Law Unions).
• Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland adapted to the new Poor Law..., 1846.
• Ordnance Survey.
• Maps of Ireland.
• History in Maps to the Famine.
• Obtaining maps, FamilySearch wiki.
• Irish Geography 101, an explanation of Irish jurisdiction terms.
• Surnames of Ireland, 1890, an interactive map.
• Historical Mapping Atlas. Population change, etc.

Tools:
• Chapman County Codes for England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland.
  With a map for Ireland.
• Forms for 1901 and 1911 census from the Irish Genealogy Toolkit.
• Townland Valuation Translator. Making sense of Griffiths.

Guides to Research in Ireland:
• Irish Ancestors, John Grenham's new independent site. A good starting point.
• Irish Lives Remembered, a web magazine with useful articles.
• Ireland wiki pages at FamilySearch. Getting started in Ireland.
• Irish Genealogy Toolkit and blog Irish Genealogy News.
• Primer in Irish Genealogy, a pdf to download.
• Irish Genealogical Society International.
• Irish Genealogy at About.com, a collection of links.
• Irish Genealogy 101 at About.com.
• Irish civil registration: How to find records of BMDs etc.
• GRO Applying for a Certificate. Also background info and information at FamilySearch wiki.
• Irish Roots includes a podcast.
• Fianna Guide to Irish Genealogy.
• Is There More in Griffiths Valuation Than Just Names?, a pdf to download. (Griffith is available on Ancestry).
• Substitutes for Destroyed Irish Censuses.
• Library Ireland, geographic and other information.
• Land, Estate and Freeholders Records in Ireland, a pdf article.
• Irish Famine Project. Maps census data for famine period.

Resource and Database Sites:
• National Library of Ireland. Catholic Parish Records at the NLI, digitized microfilm ot the actual registers. Also with a YouTube channel. About their newspaper project.
• RootsIreland. Registration and $. Irish Family History Foundation. Now linking to the Catholic Parish records. Includes list of Irish first names. Does not include Kerry.
• FamilySearch has some Irish vital records.
  For information, see Births & Baptisms; Civil Registration Indexes; Deaths. See also British batches.
  Also Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills, 1708-1929 from the Registry of Deeds.
• National Archives and specifically genealogy.
• Ireland GenWeb Project.
• Main Genuki page for Ireland.
• Ireland Genealogy Projects & Archives.
• Irish Genealogy.ie with searchable countrywide civil records and church records only for Dublin City and Counties Carlow, Cork, and Kerry.
• From Ireland. Records, cemeteries, and blogs; can sort by county.
• IGRS Early Irish Marriage Index from alternative sources; also Index to the Irish Genealogist.
• Church of Ireland records and information including a list of parish registers and the digitized Church of Ireland Gazette.
• Registry of Deeds Index Project.
• Landed Estates Database.
• Documenting Ireland, includes Irish Immigration Database and Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland.
• Irish Parliamentary Debates, searchable.
• Ask about Ireland; ebooks by county here.
• Landowners, 1876.
• Irish Times Archive, beginning 1859. $
• Irish Newspaper Archives. $
• Irish Death Notice Index.
• Duchas.ie includes The Schools Collection -- folklore and memories compiled by school children in the 1930s.
• Connected Histories searches British history resources 1500-1900; for Ireland see British Parliamentary Papers and Irish Census reports. $
• Free Irish eBooks.
• Bureau of Miltary History. 1913-1921.
• Eddie's Extracts. Mostly Belfast and Ulster.
• Irish Surname Maps based on the 1901 and 1911 censuses.

Irish-American Sites:
• Famine Immigrants 1846-1851 at NARA.
• Irish Emigration Database.
• Ads for Irish Immigrants, the Boston Pilot, October 1831 -- October 1921.
• Irish Ancestral Research Association.
• Irish Gleanings in many areas.
• Watson House in NYC, Irish Mission for Immigrant Girls, established 1883.
• Society for Irish Latin American Studies.
• Rags to Riches, New York Emigrant Bank Depositors' lives.
• Links tyo Irish-American Newspapers.

Web Directories and Bibliographies:
• Sources, National Library of Ireland.
• Irish History Online, national bibliography.
• Irish Archives Resource. Find archival collections.
• Cyndi's List for Ireland.
• Links list from CIGO.
• Irish Genealogy at About.com, a collection of links.
• Linkpendium: Ireland.
• Online Irish Census Indexes and Records.
• Sources for Research in Irish Genealogy, at LoC.
• CoraWeb: Ireland, resource list. Also by counties.
• RASCAL, Research and Special Collections Available Locally.
• Union catalog, COPAC for 90 UK and Irish academic, national & specialist library catalogues.

Message Boards (also see Counties below):
• Ancestry Message Boards: Ireland, General Board. You don't need an Ancestry subscription to use this.
• Ancestry Message Boards: Leinster.
• Ireland Reaching Out: Leinster.
• GenForum: Ireland. No longer active. Search archive.
• Ireland-L Archives.

Counties

Longford:
• Ancestry Message Board: Longford.
• GenForum: Longford Board.
• IRL-LONGFORD-L Archives.
• County Longford Genealogy [IGP].

Offaly (Kings County pre 1922):
• Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society with a blog.
• Offaly Archives.
• Ancestry Message Board: Offaly.
• GenForum: Offaly Board.
• IRL-OFFALY-L Archives.
• My Heritage Message Board: Offaly.
• Ireland Genealogy ProjectsOffaly (Kings County).
• King Family of Ballylin. Also area map. Also Return of Untenanted Lands...1906.

Westmeath:
• Westmeath Genealogy Project.
• Heritage Center, Roots Ireland.
• Rootsweb/Ancestry Westmeath Message Board.
• GenForum: Westmeath Board.
• IRL-WESTMEATH-L Archives.
• Marriage Batch Numbers.
• Drumraney Heritage Center.
• Annals of Westmeath, Ancient and Modern, pub. 1907.

Surnames

Devery aka Devereaux:
• Rootsweb/Ancestry Devery Message Board.

Egan aka Eagan:
• Rootsweb/Ancestry Egan Message Board.
• GenForum: Egan Board.
• Clann Mac Aodhagáin, MacEgan, Egan, Eagan, Eagen and Keegan.

Kerrigan and many variants:
• Rootsweb/Ancestry Kerrigan Message Board.
• GenForum: Kerrigan Board.

This page last updated 5 April 2019.

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