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World War I: Irish National Volunteers A list of men from Carlow and Laois involved in the Irish National Volunteers in 1914, discovered by a local historian. View
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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
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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
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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
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IreAtlas Townlad Database, 1851 Based on the 1851 Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland. View
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Birth Records, Co. Laois, 1867 & 1870 Some Irish birth records from Ballyroan and Abbeyleix, Co. Laois. View
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Megalithic Ireland This web site features many megalithic, early christian and fortified sites we have visited around Ireland. View
Irish Midlands Ancestry Irish Midlands Ancestry provides an ancestral research service covering the Midland counties of Laois and Offaly. View
Historic Graves A community focused grass roots heritage project which digitally records and publishes historic graveyard surveys and related multimedia stories. View
Irish Midlands Ancestry Irish Midlands Ancestry provides an ancestral research service covering the Midland counties of Laois and Offaly. View
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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
Ireland Roots General resource. 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
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
Donaghmore Famine Workhouse Museum Donaghmore Famine Workhouse Museum is a unique attraction in Co. Laois, Ireland and aims to tell the story of the families who lived and died within the Famine Workhouse walls before, during and after the Great Famine. View
Kennedy's Art Pencil drawings. View
Portlaoise Pictures On this site you'll find places and faces, music, documents and stories from in and around Portlaoise in the middle of Ireland. To be exact, Portlaoise, 53N 7W. View
Laois County Council Gives details of the services provided, its elected representatives and the county in general. View
Laois Heritage Society Laois Heritage Society was founded in the early 1970s. It replaced an organisation, Old Laois Society, which operated from the 1950s. It serves as the umbrella body for heritage interests in County Laois and draws its membership from all parts of the county. View
St. Fergal's College, Rathdowney, Co. Laois St. Fergal's College, is a modern co-educational school with 340 pupils and 34 teachers maintained by County Laois Vocational Education Committee. 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
Descendants Of George Morton, Queen's County George Morton may have died circa 1743 at Tinahely, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. View
Coolrain Bog Coolrain Bog is a small midland-type raised bog situated to the south of the Slieve Bloom mountains in Co. Laois. The SAC area contains approximately 60ha of open, high bog surface (Derwin et al., 2002) and half of this area lies within the project area. It has a rather flat topography with little evidence of a former hummock/pool system. View
Slieve Blooms, Co. Laois The Slieve Blooms is an isolated, inland mountain range, which straddles the border between counties Offaly and Laois. View
Irish Fly Craft I tie flies professionally and run a fly tying business where I tie flies from my shop in Abbeyleix, County Laois, Ireland. View
Family History Library Catalogue, County Laois This screen lists the topics (types of records) that are available for the place you selected. View
IGI Batch Numbers For Laois Some towns are listed in the IGI under more than one county. Where batch numbers for a town with the same name have been found in a different county as well as this one, that county appears in the "Other Counties" column as a clickable link (or more than one if appropriate). Clicking this link will take you to the relevant entry on that county's page (which may be either for the same town or for another town elsewhere in the country with the same name). 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
A Brummie Family Tree I have recently found transcripts of the 1911 census for Ireland which are located in the online National Archives of Ireland. The first of these (see original image above) records a family named Lawlor living at house number 20 in Rutland Cottages off Summerhill Place (Mountjoy, Dublin). View
John Quigley's Genealogy & Family History John Quigley's genealogy and family history webpage. View
Genealogy Of The Lalor Family, Tenakill, Co. Laois Peter Lalor (1827-1889) is a significant figure in the history of Ballarat and the establishment of democracy in Australia. View
Roberts Family Dossier, Stradbally First found at Stradbally, Queens County, Ireland. View
James Pearson Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross recipient. View
Abbeyleix Lore This site is intended to provide periodic updates on the life and times of the heritage town of Abbeyleix. 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
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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
Baptisms, Rathdowney, 1790 Baptismal records for new born children in Rathdowney, County Laois. View
Durrow Village Durrow is a small town located in South Laois County, Ireland. Durrow Development Forum (DDF) is a voluntary community group dedicated to the physical, environmental, economic, social and cultural enhancement of the town and this website is one project of many undertaken by the Forum. 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
Genealogy Laois Genealogy Laois is dedicated to helping anyone researching their Irish roots to obtain tangible evidence of their ancestors from Co Laois from headstone records, that surpass written records that were destroyed in the great fire in Dublin in 1922. View
Laois Nationalist Official webpage of the Laois Nationalist. View
St. Paul's Church, Portarlington One of Ireland's most historic churches celebrated its 300th anniversary in 1996. View
LibraryIreland.com's Topographical Dictionary Compromising several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate markets and post towns, parishes and villages. View
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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
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Raheen Parish, 1845-72 Raheen Parish registers were transcribed at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin from film #4205 by Pat Connors. The film was in fair condition but the handwriting was very old and extremely hard to read at times. View
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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
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
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
Lucas General Directory, 1788 Lucas' general directory of Laois, Kilkenny and Limerick, 1788. 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
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County Laois 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
1931 Trade Directory Directories set out to record the 'principal inhabitants' of a community, particularly those in trade or the professions. View
County Laois Gravestone Records Photographs from selected graveyards within County Laois, including those in Abbeyleix, Acragar, Anatrim, Arles, Aughmacart, Ballinakill, Ballyboodin, Ballybuggy, Ballyfin, Bealady, Bordwell, Camross, Castlefleming COI, Clonaslee, Clonenagh, Clonkeen, Coolbanagher, Coolkerry, Cullohill, Curraghclone, Demesne, Donaghmore, Durrow, Dysert, Emo, Errill, Ironmills Bridge, Killanure, Killasmeestia, Killenard, Killermogh, Kilmanman, Knockaroo, Kyle, Lugacurren, Moyacomb, Ockanaroe, Portarlington, Portlaoise, Rahanavannagh, Raheen, Rahsaran, Rathdowney, Rathmiles, Rosenallis, Roskelton, Shanahoe, St. Lazerian's, Stradbally, Timahoe and Vicarstown. View
Gravestone Photographs Photographs from selected graveyards within Ireland, including those in counties Carlow, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Limerick, Offaly, and Tipperary. View
Griffiths Primary Valuation Of Ireland The Primary Valuation was the first full-scale valuation of property in Ireland. It was overseen by Richard Griffith and published between 1847 and 1864. 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
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Freeholders Of County Laois, 1758-75 Freeholders in the Queen's County, from 1 Jan 1758 to 1 Dec 1775, with date of registration from a manuscript supplied by Col. Cosby of Queens County.Microreproduction of original published: Kildare, Ireland: The Journal of the County Kildare Archaelogical Society, v. 8, no. 4, (July, 1916). I_n_ Manuscripts in the Genealogical Office of Ireland. Ms. no. 443. [Description from FHL Catalog] FHL # 0100181. View
Aghaboe Baptisms, 1797-1880 Aghaboe Parish registers were transcribed from the LDS Family History Library film #0979700. View
Pigot's Directory Of Maryborough, 1824 The town was formerly called Protector, and the county of Leix. 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
Tithe Applotment Books, Multiple Villages, Co. Laois Tithe Applotment records for multiple villages within Co. Laois. View
Mountmellick 1788, Lucas Directory Directory of occupations for those of Mountmellick, Laois in 1788. View
Children Attending Mountmellick Quaker School, 1786-94 List of children attending Mountmellick Quaker School in late 1700s. View
Clonaslee, County Laois, by Rev M Comerford The entire Barony of Tinnahinch, which is co-extensive with Hy Regan, (now called Dooregan,) one of the seven cantreds of the kingdom of Ophaley*, was at one time united under the spiritual care of one pastor. View
The History Ballyroan This parish is situated in the north-west border of the barony of Cullenagh, and it contains 9,682 a. 0 r. 1p of land, about 800 of which is under bog, and the rest arable or pasture. A town or village, bearing the same name, appears to have been of some antiquity. View
Donaghmore Workhouse & Village Features photographs of both workhouse and village. View
Baptisms & Marriages, Rathdowney, 1840-50 Birth and marriage records for Rathdowney, Co. Laois. View
Marriage Records, Rathdowney, Laois, 1840-43 Marriage records for the early 1840s in Rathdowney, Laois. View
Baptisms, Rathdowney, 1790 Baptism records for Rathdowney, Laois in the year 1790. View
Rathdowney Baptisms, 1844-45 Multiple baptismal records for Rathdowney for the years 1844 and 1845. View
Bordwell Civil Parish, 1826 he Bordwell CP Tithe Applotments were transcribed from the LDS film #0256575 by Pat Connors. The film was in fairly good condition but the handwriting was very old, plus the recorder couldn't spell some of the surnames. View