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Ulster Ancestry: Northern Ireland Research Ulster Ancestry is a series of free pages which you can use for your research purposes. These have been sorted by date and detail the document type for your convenience. View
The Irish Genealogical Society International "Non-members can search the surname list for their family names but cannot see the Members' contact information; we limit general access to protect Members’ privacy." View
Family/Clan: Teskey General resource site for the name "Teskey", with links to the Irish Palotine Organisation and their records. View
Family/Clan: Ryan General resource site for the name "Ryan". View
Family/Clan: Roulstone General resource site for the name family "Roulstone". Run by Simon Roulstone. View
Family/Clan: O'Donnell General resource site for the family name "O'Donnell". Features all relevant information such as news, details of up-coming events, etc. pertaining to the O'Donnell Clan Association along with bits of history, songs, and poems relating to the O'Donnell Clan. View
The Guild Of One-Name Studies ... is the world's leading organisation for one-name studies. A one-name study is a project researching facts about a surname and all the people who have held it, as opposed to a particular pedigree (the ancestors of one person) or descendancy (the descendants of one person or couple). View
An Atlas Of Irish Names, University College Cork An Atlas of Irish names. HEA Names Project. View
The Origin Of Irish Family Names Includes the top 100 Irish surnames. View
The Butler Society The Butler Society was founded in 1967 and has published The Journal of The Butler Society since 1968. A Butler Rally is held every three years in Kilkenny, Ireland. Members come from many countries including Ireland, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Spain, Argentina and South Africa. View
Family/Clan: O'Brien This website was formed to promote the interests of all O'Briens (O'Briain, O'Brian, O'Briant, O'Breen, O'Bryen, O'Bryon, O'Bryan, O'Bryant, Bryan, Bryant, Bryen, Brian, Brien, Briend, Briens, Brine, Brion, MacBrien, MacBryen, McBrian, McBrien, McBryen and other fine families) who are descended from our progenitor, Brian Boru. View
Cassidy Clan Website The Cassidy Clan is a perpetual hereditary association comprised of persons that bear the Cassidy surname or are descended from an ancestor with the Cassidy surname or any of the variant spellings of Cassidy. In the United States, many Cassidy variations exist, including Cassity, Cassaday and Casada. We are a nonprofit organization founded and based in Ireland, and run entirely by volunteers from around the world. View
Family/Clan: Claffee General resource site for the family name "Claffee" in Moate, Co. Westmeath. View
Family/Clan: Culbertson General resource site for the family name "Culbertson". View
Family/Clan: Donnellan General resource site for the family name "Donnellan". View
Family/Clan: Downling General resource site for the family name "Dowling". View
Family/Clan: Ferguson General resource site for the family name "Ferguson". View
Family/Clan: Kelly General resource site for the family name "Kelly". View
Kelly Clan, Co. Armagh William Kelly (1787-1857) and Mary (Bryans) Kelly (1789-1849) so far are our founding family, with nine children - 6 boys and 3 girls. most of the children emigrated to the USA mainly Johnson County, Kansas and Merrickville area of Ontario, Canada. View
Family/Clan: Garvey General resource site for the family name "Garvey". View
Family/Clan: O'Lowry General resource site for the family name "O'Lowry". View
Family/Clan: Magner General resource site for the family name "Magner". Includes census records and graveyard records. View
The McGahey Family The McGahey family: past and present. View
Family/Clan: Archer Archer family history. View
Family/Clan: McGrail McGrail family website. View
Family/Clan: Egan The home of the Clan Egan, for the descendants of Aodhagáin, hereditary Brehons (or Judges) in Connaught, Leinster and Ormond. This includes the anglicised names MacEgan, Egan, Eagan, Eagen, Agin, Agins and Keegan. View
Family/Clan: O'Hara An index of the O'Haras and O'Hara-related web sites. View
Family/Clan: McGinty McGinty family history. View
Family/Clan: Cronin Genealogy and data of the surname Cronin in Co. Cork. View
Family/Clan: Ross Ross family websites with Irish heritage. View
Family/Clan: Dumond This site tells the story of two American families: the Jones family (my family) and the Dumond family (my husband's family). Our families come from two very different places and backgrounds. View
Family/Clan: Bowen Bowen name history and genealogical information. View
Family/Clan: Boylan The official home page of the world wide Boylan clan. If your name is (or used to be) O'Baoighealláin, O'Baoilean, O'Beollain, O'Boleyn, Boleyn, Boylen, Boyland, Boland, Baylon or Boylan or if you simply had a Boylan ancestor, you are in some way, a member of the clan. View
From Ireland Free resource for Irish ancestry, genealogy and family history information. Tens of thousands of free available records online. View
Medieval Names Archive Guide to Irish names, hosted by medievalscotland.org. View
Irish Naming Traditions Naming traditions handed down amongst the generations. View
Irish Aboard: Roots Includes an Irish name register, passenger lists, and advice on research. View
Family/Clan: Dalaigh Research on the Dalaigh name and clan. View
Family/Clan: McGough Dedicated to the family name McGough. View
Family/Clan: Merrigan Homepage dedicated to the Clan Merrigan. View
Family/Clan: Kavanagh Origin and early history of the Kavanagh family. View
Library Ireland Library Ireland is a free online resource of books and articles on Irish history, genealogy, and culture generally. It's aim is to entertain and inform, and to promote interest in all aspects of historical Ireland. View
The Ahern Family Mentioning of Ahern's in Richard Griffith's Primary Valuation records, passenger lists, newspapers, military records, and so on. View
Wexford Surname List Search a list of surnames originating in County Wexford. View
Old Irish Naming Pattern "1st son was named after the father's father. 2nd son was named after the mother's father. 3rd son was named after the father. 4th son was named after the father's eldest brother." View
Irish Family Mottos Mottos for Irish family names. View
1798 Rebellion, Claimants and Surrenders The 1798 Rebellion was one of the most traumatic periods in recent Irish history. While documentary evidence for the majority of participants and victims is patchy there are three lists of c. 8,300 people from this period, which were published between 1798-1800. View
Family/Clan: MacAuliffe Here you can learn about the history of the MacAuliffes - their lands and castles, the battles they fought - and read their ancient legends. You can also read about MacAuliffes who have achieved fame and distinction, or find out what is happening with the clann today, including the Rally that is held where the clann once had its lands (the next rally is in July 2012). View
Family/Clan: McCormack Genealogy Over 140 McCormack profiles listed. View
Family/Clan: Grant Grant family genealogy from pre-Norman Conquest to the present day. This is the place to come to get information about the Grant family in Southern Ireland. Grants arrived in Kilkenney in 1169 and moved from there outwards. View
Family/Clan: Carney/Kearney Collection of those whose ancestors shared the same name. View
Family/Clan: Flanagan An extensive Flanagan surname registry. View
Family/Clan: Storey Storys / Storeys had been in Ireland since 1480, - Co. Westmeath - where a Rev. John V. Story was Rector of Delvin Parish. However from 1650, Storys / Storeys began settling in Ireland as a result of happenings in Cumberland, Westmoreland & Northumberland, where feuding was commonplace among the local families there. View
Irish Surnames You generally won't be able to pinpoint an exact birthplace just from a surname, but you can get some ideas about distributions of surnames and families in Ireland with this tool. View
Names Found In Anglicized Irish Documents The current version of this article contains the names of over 1600 women and over 3600 men and is intended as a representative sample of the data available. The term Anglicized Irish is generally used to refer to Irish Gaelic words rendered in a phonetic or pseudo-phonetic form in historical documents written by an English speaker. View
Family/Clan: McConville "We would like this site to be a place that McConvilles in Ireland, Australia, Britain, Canada, the U.S. and anywhere else in the world can use as a resource. We have information on some McConvilles that we plan use on this site, from young Oisin McConville, of the Crossmaglen Rangers Football Club in Co. Armagh to Henry McConville, the South Australian pioneer. We even have had McConvilles chasing after Chief Joseph and the Nez-Pierce Indians in the western U.S." View
Family/Clan: Doyle "The Clann O DubhGhaill / Clan Doyle Exists to promote and strengthen a mutual interest and fellowship throughout the World between all persons bearing the family name of Doyle, Doyel, O'Doyle, or their relatives." View
Meanings Of Irish Place Names Many of the place names in Ireland are anglicised versions of the way the original Irish (Gaelic) name was spoken. View
Library Ireland The LibraryIreland.com project was commenced in February 2005 with the aim of providing free information on all aspects of Ireland - antiquities, biography, folklore, genealogy, history, names, social history, and much more besides. View
Stanley & Stacem Surnames, Athy Stanley and Stacem surnames from Athy, Co. Kildare. View