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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
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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
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Church And Cemetery Transcriptions Transcriptions of many Irish cemeteries from Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, and Waterford. 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. Sligo Stories of coffin-ships, famine emigration experiences, and "Black '47", the worst year of the famine. View
Sligo Heritage For the devotee of Irish history, heritage, mythology or folklore, County Sligo in the west coast province of Connacht, has everything. View
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Passenger Lists Departing Irish Ports Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild: Passenger lists departing Irish ports. 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
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
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
While Researching My Family ... Co. Sligo A collection of names related to one particular researcher in Kilglass Parish, Co. Sligo. View
Sligo County Genealogy General - yet extensive - resource site pertaining solely to Co. Sligo. 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
Castles Of Ireland Early stone fortifications, castles, towers, and strong-houses, separated and arranged by county name. View
Megalithic Ireland This web site features many megalithic, early christian and fortified sites we have visited around Ireland. View
Historic Graves A community focused grass roots heritage project which digitally records and publishes historic graveyard surveys and related multimedia stories. View
Sligo County Ireland Genealogy General resource page for the county of Sligo. View
Sligo Genealogy Resources Sligo genealogy resources and families on the Internet. View
Yeats Society, Co. Sligo The Yeats Society was founded in Sligo in 1958 in order to commemorate and honour the memory of W.B. Yeats, and to promote appreciation of his poetry and other writings, and an awareness of the other members of this talented family. 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
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
Sligo Yeats Society The Yeats Society was founded in Sligo in 1958 in order to commemorate and honour the memory of W.B. Yeats, and to promote appreciation of his poetry and other writings, and an awareness of the other members of this talented family. View
Carrow Keel Heritage of Sligo; guided tours by Martin Byrne. View
Sligo Folk Park Ireland's premier tourist attraction in the North West. View
Rosses Point On the West Coast of Ireland lies the residential and previous seafaring and farming village of Rosses Point on the entrance to Sligo Bay, watched by The Metal Man Beacon on Perch Rock, beside Sligo Town, the Islands Coney and Oyster, and overlooked by the Ox Mountains. Merging with the Atlantic Ocean, eclipsed by the Warrior Queen on Knocknarea the village and surroundings are full of scenic, literary and sporty surprises - an 18-hole championship golf course, yacht club, the Sligo Bay Lifeboat Station and magnificent blue flag beaches. 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
County Sligo Cemeteries Including Ahamlish Grange, Ballinakill, and Sooey cemeteries. 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
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
Strandhill, County Sligo News, events, people, places, planning, and heritage. View
Frank L. Ludwig Photography I was born in Hamburg on Beatles Day and have lived in Sligo (Ireland) since 6237 RT (1996 CE). View
Sligo County Enterprise Board Sligo County Enterprise Board provides support to County Sligo-based small businesses in the form of advice, training, mentoring, business counselling and assistance in the development of management skills. View
Sligo County Council Sligo County Council recently celebrated a centenary of service to the people of county Sligo. View
Sligo Tourism Sligo will enchant you. It is a county that celebrates its independent spirit. A place steeped in history and mythology, with a creative tradition that lives in the music, art, poetry and expression of its people. View
Sligo Town On The Net Sligo Town, the vibrant heart of the north-west of Ireland, is believed to have been built on, or in the immediate vicinity of Ptolemy's ancient town of Nagnata, on the banks of the Garavogue River, with strong evidence to suggest there has been a human settlement of one kind or another here for several thousand years. 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
Hawk's Well Theatre The Hawk's Well is a 340 seat theatre in Sligo, North West Ireland, hosting a diverse programme of arts and entertainments. 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
Sligo County, Ireland This Connaught Province county contains the towns of: Sligo, Ballymote, Collooney, Ballysodare, Enniscrone, and Tubbercurry. 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
LibraryIreland.com's Topographical Dictionary Compromising several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate markets and post towns, parishes and villages. View
Ancestors On Board Passenger lists with over 24 million records from ships sailing to destinations worldwide. View
County Sligo Heritage & Genealogy Centre This centre offers a comprehensive genealogical service to people tracing their County Sligo roots from all over the world. 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
Keelogues Gravestones, Co. Sligo From Sligo Town take the Donegal road. Pass Drumcliffe Church & bridge, on past the public house and over the hill. At the bottom, there is a small church on thr right, turn right for Ballintrilick. The Cemetery is about 5 miles on the left. 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
Ships & Sailors, Co. Sligo Articles relating to ships and sailors hailing from Co. Sligo. View
Old Ballisodare Cemetery, Co. Sligo At the top of the town of Ballisadare turn right. The cemetery is down a narrow road to the right in an old ruined churchyard. It is not signposted from the roadway. View
Collooney Cemetery, Co. Sligo Situated outside the Village of Collooney about 6 miles from Sligo town and on a hill overlooking the roundabout on the moterway. View
Ballinakill Graveyard, Co. Sligo Graveyard inscriptions for Ballinakill graveyard. 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
Co. Sligo Gravestone Records Includes inscriptions for Ahamlish Grange, Ballinakill, Banada Abbey, Carrigans Ballinfull, Clogher, Curry, Drumcliffe, Killery, Kilmacowen, Kilross, Lisadell, Rathcormack, Rosses Point and Thurlestrane. View
Saint Columbas Cemetery, Co. Sligo The cemetery is situated beside the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Ballymote Town. View
Drumcliff COI Gravestones, Co. Sligo Includes hundreds of records taken from Drumcliff COI graveyard. View
Castleconnor Parish Records, Co. Sligo Includes baptismal and marriage records, along with obituary records for Castleconnor of Co. Sligo. View
Dromard & Skreen Marriages, Co. Sligo Includes names for the consenting parties, sponsors (witnesses), and residencies. View
Easkey Parish Baptisms, Co. Sligo Birth records for Co. Sligo's Easkey parish. View
1749 Elphin Diocesan Census, Co. Sligo All of this information is transcribed and shared by Bill McGee. 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 Sligo 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
1901 Census, From-Ireland.net The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage. 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
Ballisodare & Kilvarnet Baptismal Index, 1842-43 Close to 100 baptism records. View
Roman Catholic Dioceses, Achonry, 1836 All spellings are as on original document. There are possibly some errors such as Wm. Quirke being listed as a curate in two parishes. View
Trade Directory, 1931, Co. Sligo Trade directory for Co. Sligo in the year 1931. Close to 600 records available. View
Molly St. George Miss Molly St. George is a maid without peer / So handsome, so modest, so graceful, so dear. View
Emigration & Education Statistics, 1931, Co. Sligo Sligo, a maritime county in the province of Connaught. It is bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by county Leitrim, on the south by counties Roscommon and Mayo and on the west by county Mayo. Its length from the River Moy to the Arigna River is 40 miles and its breadth from Lough Gara to Donegal Bay is 38 miles. View
Official Authorities, 1834, Co. Sligo This link contains a list of fifty or so names with accompanying addresses. View
1659 Census, Co. Sligo The following has been transcribed from 'A Census of Ireland, c. 1659, with Supplementary Material from the Poll Money Ordinances (1660-1661)' edited by Seamus Pender, and published by the Stationery Office, Dublin in 1939. View
Presbyterian Exodus, 1729, Co. Sligo As far back as 1675, when South Ulster had not even one Presbyterian Congregation in either Fermanagh, Monaghan, or Cavan, there was a minister, Rev. Jacques in charge of the Corboy church. Rev. John Mairs of Loughbrickland was "transplanted" to Longford in 1697, where he complained about his work and the extent of his charge, "being at least ten miles over, and the two places in his charge (Corboy and Tully or Clongish) for preaching in each other Sabbath, being five miles distant". View
Online Maps Of County Sligo The 1837's first edition of the Ordnance Survey's 6-inch maps is now available. It shows Sligo in the boundaries before the Local Government reform of 1898, i.e. before the DEDs east of Ballina (Ardnaree North, Ardnaree South Rural, and Ardnaree South Urban) were transferred from Sligo to Mayo. View
Sligo Records A general resource for all things County Sligo. View