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Gravestone Records From Ireland.net has currently amassed 50,000 gravestone entries and continues to collect and add entries to the database on a daily basis. View
Interment.net: Cemeteries Of Ireland A database of cemetery transcriptions indexed by county. View
Irish Genealogy This Irish Government supported, official web site, dedicated to helping you in your search for records of family history for past generations. View
National Archives Of Ireland The National Archives holds a wide variety of records, many of which are relevant to Irish genealogy and local history. View
Mayo Library Mayo was one of the earliest counties to exercise the power conferred by the Local Government Act 1925 to adopt a county library scheme. View
Ireland IGI Batch Numbers The LDS Church has organized the records in the IGI into 'batches'. These batches relate to how and when the information was extracted from source material. For each batch Hugh Wallis extracted the church or chapel (if specified), town, county and country names of the first record that appears when it is called up in a browser. View
Irish Graveyard Place An Irish Graveyard blog by Jane Lyons of gravestone transcriptions and thousands of photographs, too. View
Church And Cemetery Transcriptions Transcriptions of many Irish cemeteries from Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, and Waterford. View
Wilmington's Irish Roots: Griffith's Valuation, 1855 Includes 24 civil parishes of Co. Galway, 5 civil parishes of Co. Mayo, and 10 civil parishes of Co. Donegal. View
Slater's Commercial Directory Of Ireland, 1846 Lists detailed descriptions of the town or city, post office information and shows the names of nobility and gentry living in or close to the town. The traders of each town are arranged according to their trade. View
The Great Famine, Co. Mayo County Mayo was one of the counties to suffer most and in commemoration the following article was included in a report from Mayo County Council. The first reports of blight appeared in September 1845. For one third of the country's population, the potato was the sole article of diet. In County Mayo it was estimated that nine tenths of the population depended on it. View
Emmigrants From Louisburg Area, Co. Mayo, 1909 Emmigrants From Louisburg Area, Co. Mayo, 1909, to USA on "SS Ivenia". View
Passenger List, Queenston To New York On "Teutonic" Passenger List, Queenston To New York On "Teutonic", 1891 View
Passenger List, Liverpool To Queenston On "City Of Chester", 1891 An incomplete list of passengers on "City of Chester" from Liverpool to Queenston, April 27, 1891. View
Marriage Records, Kilgeever Parish Kilgeever Parish includes Louisburgh area. View
The National Library Of Ireland For the period before 1864, parish records provide the only record of most baptisms, marriages and burials. Catholic parish registers are normally still held by the parish priest, but there are microfilms of many of them for the period up to 1880 in the National Library of Ireland. View
Roman Catholic Officers, 1693 A list of such Roman Catholic Officers as have been taken up by virtue of the late General Order, dated the 17th day of December, 1692. View
Landowners In Ireland, 1876 Name of every land owner in Ireland 1876 who had at least one acre of land. View
Surname Registry Entries archives by county name. View
Eircom Telephone Directory Ireland's telephone directory. View
Ancestry.co.uk Ireland Message Board Read and post messages with other genealogy researchers View
Griffith's Valuation Search At My Irish Ancestry.com Free membership and search over 1,000,000 million records. View
A Little Bit Of Ireland General resource page with focus on newspapers, Co. Clare, Co. Limerick, Co. Mayo, and Co. Roscommon. View
Fianna: Guide To Genealogy The legendary Fianna of Ireland were a band of mighty noble warriors. Entrance was governed by strict tests and codes of honour. Yet the Fianna also had to be knowledgeable of culture, and more specifically they had to be poets. The Fianna Study Group for Irish Genealogy tries to bring the finest values to you through this web site. View
Flaxgrowers Of Ireland, 1796 The Irish Linen Board published a list of nearly 60,000 individuals in 1796. Spinning wheels were awarded based on the number of acres planted. People who planted one acre were awarded 4 spinning wheels and those growing 5 acres were awarded a loom. Broken down by county. View
Richard Griffith's Primary Valuation Of Ireland 1848-64 Records online for all counties. View
Richard Griffith's Primary Valuation Of Ireland 1848-64 Searchable database. Griffith's Primary Valuation of Ireland was the first full-scale valuation of property in Ireland. It was overseen by Richard Griffith and published between 1847 and 1864 View
Genealogical Society Of Ireland The Society was established in 1990 to promote the study of genealogy and related subjects as educational leisure pursuits available to all in the community irrespective of age, prior-learning, background or socio-economic circumstances. View
1901 Census For Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, & Westmeath In depth records for counties Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, and Westmeath only. View
Births In Ireland, 1864 Birth registration in Ireland (including Northern Ireland) began in 1864. The indexes you find on this site are the first step of a two step process in finding a birth record registered in Ireland. View
IreAtlas Townlad Database, 1851 Based on the 1851 Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland. View
From Ireland Free resource for Irish ancestry, genealogy and family history information. Tens of thousands of free available records online. View
Mayo Memorial Peace Park The Mayo Peace Park and Garden of Remembrance, remembers and commemorates the Mayo military men and women who died in worldwide conflicts, on UN service and Gardai in the course of their official duty within the state. View
Gaelshaoire From its rugged coastline to its inland mountains and lakes, Ireland’s Gaeltacht, where the Irish language can still be heard, offers the opportunity for a very different holiday experience. View
Genealogical Research Service For County Mayo County Mayo, which is located on the west coast of Ireland in the province of Connacht, had a population at the time of the Great Famine of almost half a million. The hemorrhage of emigration in the past century and a half has reduced the population to a little over one fifth of this figure. View
Castles Of Ireland Early stone fortifications, castles, towers, and strong-houses, separated and arranged by county name. View
The Ceide Fields Of Co. Mayo The Ceide Fields neolithic site in County Mayo, Ballycastle, Ireland, contains the oldest known stone-walled fields in the world - dating back nearly 6,000 years. View
Megalithic Ireland This web site features many megalithic, early christian and fortified sites we have visited around Ireland. View
Evictions Of Peasanty In Ireland Absentee landlords were common in Ireland and for many landlord's the main interest was income rather than the conditions of their tenants. Many landlords realized that they could get a higher income by turning their properties to pasture than to continue with the old practice of collecting rents from tenant farmers. Evictions was the most common way of getting rid of unwanted tenants. View
Mayo Family Heritage Research Service So you think you have Mayo ancestry! Well you're in good company: Mary Robinson, Grace Kelly, Mel Gibson and Mrs Richard Nixon are a few of the many international figures whose ancestors came from this beautiful county. View
Crime Convictions In County Mayo, 1849 Crimes ranging from "sheep stealing" to "larceny". View
Historic Graves A community focused grass roots heritage project which digitally records and publishes historic graveyard surveys and related multimedia stories. View
County Mayo Ireland GenWeb General resource page for Co. Mayo. View
Desperately Seeking Castlebar Relations A list of those researching past relatives in the area of Castlebar, Co. Mayo. View
The Ceide Fields, Co Mayo The Ceide Fields of Co. Mayo is an area that is indistinguishable from the miles of bogland that stretch far to the west on the Belmullet peninsula. The Ceide Fields site, in County Mayo, covering more than four square miles of ordinary farmland, comprises the oldest enclosed landscape in Europe. Buried for almost fifty centuries, Ceide Fields is a snapshot of the Irish countryside from five millennia ago. One of the qualities that distinguishes Ceide Fields from other settlements is that, unlike places in Europe that have been under continuous cultivation for centuries, agriculture stopped 5,000 years ago. View
Údarás Na Gaeltachta The Gaeltacht (areas where Irish is the community language) includes large parts of counties Galway, Mayo, Donegal and Kerry, and smaller areas in counties Cork, Waterford and Meath. Údarás na Gaeltachta is the government agency responsible for promoting the economic and social development of these areas, working to preserve and maintain the daily and widespread use of the Irish language. They are a valuable resource for any issues pertaining to the Gaeltacht, or to the Irish language. View
Museums Of Mayo The 'Museums of Mayo' network was established in 1997 to collect, preserve, research and exhibit the varied and rich cultural heritage of Mayo. On this website you will be able to find out what each museum has to offer and plan your time to gain the most from your visit to County Mayo. View
County Mayo: An Outline History County Mayo has a rich archaeological heritage dating from prehistoric times to the present. (Achaeology is the interpretation of our past from the study of buildings and objects made by human beings. We are dependent on archaeology alone in any attempt to study the prehistoric period and thereafter to complement what is recorded in written sources). View
Ernie O'Malley & Achill Island Ernie O'Malley was born in Ellison Street, Castlebar, Co. Mayo in 1897. One of eleven children, Ernie and his brothers and sisters would spend most summers at the O'Malley family's rented house near Rosbeg, Westport, from where he would explore the area around Clew Bay, a wide bay that runs out to Clare Island and Achill Island on its northern shore. View
Ireland Newspaper Abstracts The links contained within will take you to the articles currently on Ireland Old News.com and are organized by county of publication, year and month. These pages are updated frequently so be sure to check back often for your particular interests. View
Penal Laws Of Ireland Laws in Ireland for the suppression of popery. View
Online Census Records For Ireland Categorised by county. View
Genuki: Ireland "Ireland, a large island of Europe, W of Great Britain, between lon. 6 and 10, 40 W, and lat. 51, 15 and 55, 13 N, 280m. long and 160 broad, and containing 19,436,000 acres divided up into 4 provinces; Ulster N, Leinster E, Munster S, and Connaught to the W, and subdivided into 32 counties." [From The New London Gazetteer (1826)] View
The Mayo Family History Centres The Mayo Family History Centres professional genealogical research services for County Mayo. View
Cobh: The Queenstown Story From 1848 - 1950 over 6 million adults and children emigrated from Ireland - over 2.5 million departed from Cobh. Our genealogical record finder has been designed for people interested in tracing their ancestors but have no knowledge of genealogical records. View
The Landed Estates Database Welcome to the Landed Estates Web site, a searchable, online database of all Landed Estates in Connacht and Munster, maintained by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway. The Landed Estates Database provides a comprehensive and integrated resource guide to landed estates and historic houses in Connacht and Munster, c. 1700-1914. The aim of this guide is to assist and support researchers working on the social, economic, political and cultural history of Connacht and Munster from c.1700 to 1914. View
Ireland Roots General resource. View
Tír Sáile The North Mayo Sculpture Trail is the largest public arts project ever undertaken in Ireland. It entailed the putting in place of fourteen site specific Sculptures along the North Mayo Coast. The trail is supplemented by an exhibition site at which the work of guest sculptors or temporary exhibitions are accommodated. View
Internment Search and browse cemetery burial records from thousands of cemeteries across the world. View
Griffiths Valuation 1848-64 Irelands Valuation office conducted its first survey of property ownership in Ireland from 1848 to 1864. This survey became known as "Griffiths Valuation" after Richard Griffith who was the director of the office at that time. View
Archiseek Archiseek is an online magazine dedicated to, but not exclusively, Irish architecture. Featuring news from Irish architecture, encouraging discussion between architects and those interested in our build environment, Archiseek is the leading Irish architecture publication. View
Log Ainm Placenames Database of Ireland, developed by Fiontar (DCU) and The Placenames Branch (Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht). View
Irish Life & Lore Now at Irish Life and Lore, over 3,000 voices have been captured as they discuss their own lives and histories, along with personal and family experiences of events in Irish national and social history. View
Irish Family History Foundation To view an individual detail genealogy record you will need to purchase credit vouchers at a cost of €5.00 per record. View
On A Flesh And Bone Foundation: An Irish History An Irish History tells the story of the search for my family across time, a search that has taken me across Ireland and into a history which includes my paternal grandmother, who risked her life as a member of Cumann na mBan (the women's branch of the IRA), her beloved brother, who was killed during the Irish War of Independence, my maternal grandmother who died when my mother was only five years old, and my maternal grandfather who defied church and state to keep his family together. View
Irish Genealogy And History Books Irish Genealogy Books on each and every county in Ireland, and Classic Histories from the Four Masters, to Keatings History, and Conquest of Ireland. Includes rare works like the Irish Book of Arms and the 'Missouri Irish'. 60 titles published by the Irish Genealogical Foundation. View
Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon Ballaghaderreen is a busy Cathedral town of approximately 2000 population situated on the Mayo/Roscommon border close to the Lung River. View
Workhouses In Ireland A list of all of the Workhouses in existance in Ireland during the 19th and early part of the 20th Century, together with details of who you should contact for further information as to the whereabouts of Original Workhouse Registers. View
Feile Iorras International Folk Arts Festival Feile Iorras is committed to the provision of Quality Artistic Endeavor in all it's operations for the people of Erris. Feile Iorras is a community based organization and therefore community involvement and interaction is a core value of Feile Iorras. View
The Western Light Art Gallery Exhibition now open at Keel, Achill Island. The Art gallery at Keel is open daily all year. View
Irish Country Women's Association ICA members meet in local groups across the country, almost 700 Guilds each of which offers a varied programmes of activity including trips and visits, crafts and art, interesting speakers, competitions and a whole lot more. View
Irish Graveyards The homepage of Irish Graveyard Surveyors. This site provides the facility to search a number of Irish graveyards to locate a specific grave or simply to browse through a graveyard or number of graveyards. You can use our search engine or our graveyard locator to find what you are looking for. View
Ireland Genealogy Projects This site offers access to a valuable collection of material that is not readily available elsewhere including monumental inscriptions, photographs of headstones, parish registers and civil registration records. View
Irish Death Notice Index This page is an index of 54,622 obituaries of people who were born and/or died in Ireland, or whose deaths were mentioned in Irish newspapers. The actual obituaries are not necessarily available online. View
Roman Catholic Parish Maps Online Just click on the county of interest and a map displaying all the parishes is displayed. Click on the parish of interest to see what records, date ranges and indexes are available, and where the records are held. View
Achill Island 24/7 This Achill 24/7 Web site aims to offer information on artists and writers who have lived and worked on Achill Island, Co Mayo, in the west of Ireland. View
Castlebar News Webpage related to the County Mayo town. View
Clare Island, County Mayo Clare Island lies off the west coast of Ireland at at the entrance to Clew Bay. View
Crossmolina Crossmolina (in Irish, Crois Mhaoilíona) is a town in northern County Mayo, Ireland, as well as the name of the parish in which Crossmolina is seated. The town sits on the River Deel near the northern shore of Lough Conn. View
Knock Shrine The Story of Knock began on Thursday evening of the 21st August, 1879, Our Lady, St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist appeared at the south gable of the church at Knock, County Mayo, Ireland. View
Tourmakeady Tourmakeady is a rural and tourist area in County Mayo in the West of Ireland. View
Ireland's History in Maps, 1100 From 1086 to 1114 the most powerful king in Ireland was Muirchertach O'Brien. He had dealings with the Anglo-Normans and the Norwegian king, and dominated most of the country. View
Mayo Family History So you think you have Mayo ancestry? Well you're in good company: Mary Robinson, Grace Kelly, Mel Gibson and Mrs Richard Nixon are a few of the many international figures whose ancestors came from this beautiful county. View
Mayo County Library Mayo was one of the earliest counties to exercise the power conferred by the Local Government Act 1925 to adopt a county library scheme. View
LibraryIreland.com's Topographical Dictionary Compromising several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate markets and post towns, parishes and villages. View
Ulster Migrants 1796 To County Mayo Ulster migrants to County Mayo, 1976. View
Maps Of County Mayo Maps for the Mayo parishes of Kilgeever, Ballyhean, Ballintober, Islanddeady, and Aughagower. View
Ancestors On Board Passenger lists with over 24 million records from ships sailing to destinations worldwide. View
Emmigrants From Louisburg Area, Co. Mayo Emmigrants from Louisburg Area, Co. Mayo. View
1815 Town Of Westport Rent Roll Rent Roll for the Mayo town of Westport, 1815. View
Emigration From Ballycroy, Co. Mayo Information is taken from Ellis Island Database and other sources. View
Business In Castlebar, 1824 List of businesses and business owners in Castlebar, 1824. View
The Irish Times Digital Archive 1859-2009 A newspaper exists to reflect the society which it serves. The Irish Times is no different. It has changed and reinvented itself over and over again down through the years, evolving, writing the first draft of history about the political, social, economic and cultural landmarks on the island of Ireland. View
Ireland Mailing Lists Extensive list of mailing list links. View
Mayo County Graveyards These are all incomplete listings, but plentiful. View
My Irish Eyes From Co. Mayo General resource page for Mayo. View
Births & Baptisms, Co. Mayo Births and baptisms in parishes of Co. Mayo. Over 10,000 births and baptisms recorded. View
John Gibbons John Gibbons of Hazelrock, Killawalla Parish Co. Mayo Ireland. Gibbons wrote many poems about the people and villages of Killawalla. View
County Mayo Cemetery Records Includes Abbey, Ballinavilla, Bekan, Bohola, Kilcolman, Kilfian Old, Kilkinure, Lisloughry, Midfield, New, Saint Colman's, Saint Joseph's, Saint Mary's Sleivemore Old and Tulrahan cemeteries. View
Parish Of Kilgeever Valuations, Co. Mayo This is a partial listing. View
Irish Records For Counties Galway, Mayo & Donegal General resource page. View
Griffiths Valuations, Aglish Parish, Co. Mayo This is a partial listing. View
Kilgeever Parish Marriage Records Kilgeever Parish includes Louisburgh area. View
Islandeady Parish Marriages 517 marriages available. View
1901 Census Bohola, Co. Mayo Bohola is a small village of less than a thousand people positioned in the center of Co. Mayo and is not on most maps of Ireland. It is located five miles south of Swinford and ten miles east of Castlebar. View
1901 & 1911 Census, Co. Mayo Census and Heads of Households for Co. Mayo in 1901 and 1911. View
My Irish Ancestry Post your Irish genealogy family research query on Irish county forums. View
Irish Index A unique source for over 15,000 birth, marriage and death announcements appearing in a leading Irish newspaper during the years 1817-23. View
Irish Death Notice Index This page is an index of 54,622 obituaries of people who were born and/or died in Ireland, or whose deaths were mentioned in Irish newspapers. View
Diocese Of Achonry Achonry is a Roman Catholic Diocese in the West of Ireland. There are twenty-three parishes in the diocese - eleven each in Counties Sligo and Mayo and one, the Cathedral Parish, in Co. Roscommon. View
Placename Search The single most important item of information for Irish family history research is a precise place of origin, and the most important tool in identifying Irish placenames is the 1851 General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, parishes and Baronies of Ireland. View
Graveyards, Co. Mayo Includes several transcriptions for several graveyards. View
Marriages, Co. Mayo Parishes Marriages in parishes of Castlebar, Westport, Louisburgh, Ballintober, and Achill, Co. Mayo. View
My Irish Eyes From Co. Mayo, Ireland A treasure chest of records and articles relating to Co. Mayo genealogy. View
Ellis Island In 1982, President Ronald Reagan asked Lee Iacocca, then Chairman of Chrysler Corporation, to head a private sector effort to raise funds for the restoration and preservation of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation (SOLEIF) was founded. View
About New York Emigrant Savings Bank, 1850-83 The Emigrant Savings Bank was established in 1850 by members of the Irish Emigrant Society. The bank ended up serving thousands of Irish immigrants who fled to America following the infamous Potato Famine. View
County Mayo Genealogy Gravestone records, Gravestone photographs, 1901 Census records, 1911 Census records, 1931 Trade Directory records, Birth records, Marriage records, Death records, Lewis' Topographical records, Griffith's Valuation records, and much more. View
Irish Genealogy Blog Irish genealogy news from Dr. Jane Lyons, the creator of From-Ireland.net. View
1931 Trade Directory Directories set out to record the 'principal inhabitants' of a community, particularly those in trade or the professions. View
Lewis' Topographical Dictionary This topographical dictionary comprises of several counties, cities, boroughs, parish and villages - with historical and statistical descriptions - of Ireland. View
Using The IreAtlas Townland Data Base The book was transcribed by a large number of volunteers under a man who we knew as Sean Ruad. View
Facebook's Irish Genealogy Facebook page for Irish Genealogy View
Irish Alliance & The Tenant Right League A good deal of prominence was given in 'The Nation' to the report of an "Aggregate Meeting" held in the Music Hall, Lower Abbey Street, on the 20th November 1849, and called on the requisition of "80 dignitaries and 110 curates of the Catholic Church; 22 members of the regular clergy; 120 magistrates; landed proprietors, corporators, and poor law guardians; 200 members of the learned professions; 700 land-owners,and farmers, and 900 merchants, traders and artizans. View
Fair Towns Of Ireland, 1834 The Fair towns were very important towns and people walked for miles on a fair day to go to sell their produce. Until the Fair Day people would have no money and so once the produce or the animals were sold then the bills would be paid. View
Trade Directory, 1831, Co. Mayo Trade Directory for County Mayo in 1831. View
Emigration & Education Statistics, 1931, Co. Mayo Mayo a maritime county in the province of Connaught, is bounded on the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by counties Sligo and Roscommon and on the south by county Galway. Its greatest length from the boundary near Ballyhaunis to near Erris Head is about 66 miles and its greatest breadth from Killary Harbour to Downpatrick Head is 54 miles. View
Official Authorities, 1834, Co. Mayo Representative: John Browne, Esq., (cousin to the Marquess of Sligo), 2 Mansfield street, London and Mount Brown, Co. Mayo, Dominick Browne, Esq., Brookes Club House, London and Castlemacgarret, Co. Mayo. View
Kilmore-Erris Baptisms, 1860 All baptisms recorded in this set of parish records for the year 1860 have been indexed. The townland names are included in the register but not given here but for the most part they were difficult to read. Some of the townland names as read in the register are listed below. Kilmore-Erris baptismal records only begin in June 1860. View
The Maid Of Ballyhaunis My Mary dear! For thee I die, / O! place thy hand, in mine, love - / My fathers here were chieftains high, / Then to my plaints incline, love. / O! Plaited-hair! That now we were / In wedlock's hand united / For maiden mine, in grief I'll pine, / Until our vows are plighted! View
Kilmovee R.C. Marriages 1824-27 Name Abbreviations found in registers: Wm = William Jas/Js. = James ; Mich/Mick. = Michael ; Margt. = Margaret ; Jn/Jno. = John or Jonathan; Ally = Anastasia (sometimes) ; Anty = Anastasia/Anastatia ; Lau. = Laurence ; pat/patt = patrick ; May = Mary ; Jos. = Joseph ; Matt. = Matthew ; Onny = Winifred ; Cath. = Catherine ; Danl., Dan = Daniel; Hanna = Hanora or Anne ; Jer. = Jeremiah ; Sally = Sarah ; Bess = Elizabeth, Eliza ; Biddy/bridgt. = bridget ; Fanton = Finton. Nics./Nich = Nicholas ; Thos. = Thomas ; Nelly = Eleanor or Ellen ; Fanny = Frances. View
Addergoole R.C. Baptisms, 1840 The following is indexed according to the surname of the Child. The surnames of mothers which do not appear as those of the children are listed below. All spellings are as on the parish register. Where a name was difficult to read, there are question marks. View
R. C. Extracts, Bekan, Co. Mayo Bekan records which exist : Baptisms: Aug 3rd, 1832 - Feb 2nd, 1844, Dec 15th, 1844 - May 20th, 1861, Sept 15th, 1851 - May 7th, 1871, View
R. C. Extracts, Cong & The Neale, 1870 On these tables the childs first name is listed before the surname - then the father's first name. The mothers surname is listed before her first name, as is the surname of the 'sponsor'. The 'sponsor' is the Godparent's. When a name was difficult to read or illigible, then there are question marks View
R. C. Parish Records, Co. Mayo Please note, that while it may be very exciting to discover that records exist for the parish you are interested in, continuously from the mid-1700s to 1880 - do not place too much emphasis on that fact, records that are so old tend to be in bad condition, sometimes so faded as to be illegible. Unfortunately, the same can also be said for some records that were created in the mid-1800s View