Directories
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A 1915 directory of leather trades in Dublin and other Irish counties.
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.
Pigot & Co's directory goes through the towns of Ireland alphabetically. It lists a detailed description of the town or city, post office information and shows the names of nobility and gentry living in or close to the town. Pigot & Co's Directory was first published in 1820.
A collection of over 150 Irish databases of probate, census, directory and other databases, search all databases in one search.
Key Irish genealogy records featuring Griffith's Valuation, censuses, wills, passenger lists, militia records, and more. Sign up for 72 hour, monthly or annual subscriptions for under £5 a month, offering unlimited access.
Directories, census records, death records, military records, names, and passenger lists.
Includes records from both the 1901 and 1911 censuses, Griffith's valuation, an index of Tithe Applotment Books, directories ranging from 1788 through to 1893, and military and eviction notices. Anything County Clare and genealogy related will feature here. A fantastic resource.
County Wicklow is a county on the east coast of Ireland between County Dublin to the north and County Wexford to the south. The County of Wicklow is named after it’s principal town Wicklow.
Co. Wexford was the landing place of the Norman invasion in 1169 and the region was settled extensively by the newcomers. This Norman influence, the warmth of its climate, the relative prosperity of its farms, and the fact that most of the county is situated between mountains and sea, have all combined to make Wexford a unique place. It was the scene of the most intense and widespread fighting in the rebellion of 1798, and for a time a citizens' republic was established on the French model in Wexford town.
Island Ireland is an Internet directory to Irish art, culture and environment with handpicked links to Irish history, architecture, music, news, genealogy, travel, literature, folk culture, archaeology, the Irish language and more.
Plenty of interesting links for those intrigued by Irish archaeology.
Genealogy Links.net, your online resource for family history research. This site consists of 3,000 pages of more than 28,000 Genealogy Links; for USA, UK, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Europe, Canada, Australia & New Zealand.
Provides links to resources of all kinds pertaining to the Irish language.
A general directory of the Kingdom of Ireland in Ennis, Co. Clare in 1788, compiled by Richard Lucus.
The Clare Library's information related to Pigot's Directory of towns in Co. Clare in the 19th century.
The Clare Library's information related to Pigot's Directory of towns in Co. Clare in the 19th century.
The Clare Library's information related to Pigot's Directory of towns in Co. Clare in the 19th century.
The Irish Family History Foundation (I.F.H.F.), an all Ireland not-for-profit organization, runs the rootsireland.ie site. It oversees the creation of a database of Irish genealogical sources which enables those who wish to trace their Irish ancestry to have access to all the relevant data in one place. Its member centres are based in local communities, working with volunteers, local historical societies, local clergy, local authorities, county libraries and government agencies to build a database of genealogical records for their county. By using this website you are supporting that work and the communities from which your ancestors originated.
"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)]
These Australian sites contain a variety of information relating to family history and genealogy including guides, indexes and digitised images of documents. They also provide links to other informative sites both in Australia and overseas and pathways to make contact with other family historians via indexed family trees, mailing lists and bulletin boards.
An improving market and post town, 35 miles south, of Dublin, and 5 south east of Carlow, is very pleasantly situated on the bank of the Slaney, over which it has a good stone bridge of five arches. It was formerly a walled town, with a tower and extensive barracks. On the site of ground, on which part of the town now stands, was formerly an abbey, founded by Simon Sambers and Hugh Talon.
Includes clergy, gentry, trades, businesses, and professions.
Scanned images of Slater's Commercial directory of Ireland 1846.
Post office serving parts of parishes of St. Patrick's and St. Munchins in Co. Clare.
Post Office parish of Kiltenanlea on the river Shannon, 3 m. from Castleconnell. Population of parish 1,381.
A general directory of the Kingdom of Ireland, 1788, by Richard Lucus in Ennis, Co. Clare.
Post Office, Jail street, Ennis, George Crow, Post Master-Letters from Dublin, Connaught, etc, arrive every morning at five and are despatched every evening at fifteen minutes before seven.
Directory of Towns: access or photocopies are available from The National Library in Dublin for 1846, 56, 70, 81 and 94 and other dates for Longford and other counties.
Is situated in a valley, 59 miles north west of Dublin, 12 west of Granard, 7 north west of Edgeworth's town, and 10 north of Ballymahon.
The Dublin directory for 1842 containing a general alphabetical list of the inhabitants of the city and suburbs; a street directory; a classification of professions and trades and an explanatory list of streets. Documents are in Adobe PDF format.
Bassett's Directory of Limerick City and County and Principal Towns of Clare, Tipperary and Kerry, 1880-1 was compiled and published by William Bassett. This edition contains expanded sections on the main towns in counties Clare, Tipperary and Kerry. The directory contains the names of county and public officials, clergy, professional and business people, tradesmen and craftworkers. The County Clare section of the directory is reproduced here.
Published in Limerick in 1875, this edition of Bassett's Directory of Limerick City and County and Principal Towns of Clare, Tipperary and Kerry contains the names of members of the clergy, gentry, public officials and trades and business people. The County Clare section, reproduced here, covers the towns of Ennis, Killaloe, Ballina, Bird-Hill and Kilrush.
Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland, 1846 is arranged by province and county and its section on County Clare covers the towns of Ennis, Clare (now Clarecastle), Kilrush, Tulla, Killaloe and Kilkee. It had been previously published in 1824 as Pigot's City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory.
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.
Directories set out to record the 'principal inhabitants' of a community, particularly those in trade or the professions.
In the county of Limerick, is a market, post and fair town, agreeably situated on the river Deel, 108 miles south west of Dublin, 14 south west of Limerick, and 42 north north west of Cork.
A Market and parish, in the barony of Lower Connello, county of Limerick, is 120 miles s.w. from Dublin, 53 n.n.w. from Cork, and 17 s.w. by w. from Limerick; situated between the last named town and Newcastle, on the banks of the river Deel.
The town was formerly called Protector, and the county of Leix.
Most business men/people had more than one occupation. The Publican as described above was also the Grocer and if he sold milk then he could also be described as a Dairy man. As you go through this list of names you will see that many of these names are the same person, with a number of different 'Occupations'.
In Ireland, many of the towns had a square, and around the square were houses (homes) with one or two shops or businesses. The streets of the town all went from that square.
The streets of the town all went from that square. Most towns had a 'Main street' - some called it a High street, and it was usually on that main street that the majority of shops and businesses were located. Shops had one or two large windows depending on the size of the shop.
Directory of occupations for those of Mountmellick, Laois in 1788.
This version of Richard Lucas’s Cork Directory for the Year 1787 was reprinted by the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society in 1967. Cork City Libraries is grateful to CHAS for permission to make this reproduction available online.
Select the link featured to open William West's directory for 1809-1810. The document will open in PDF format with searchable text.
Select the appropriate link on panel at left to view the full Table of Contents or to browse through the pages of the directory. The pages will open in PDF format and are text searchable.
General index of records for Laing's Mercantile Directory of Cork City in 1863.
The following was transcribed by Lindel and forms part of the Donegal Genealogy Resources Website.
Ballybofey, Ballyshannon and Donegal Town, from Slater's Directory 1857.
Select the appropriate link on panel at left to view the Index to Advertisers, General Index, County Index, or City Index or to browse through the pages of the directory. The pages will open in PDF format and are text searchable.
Search through records for Co. Carlow from the general Directory of the Kingdom of Ireland, 1788 by Richard Lucas.
The capital of Queen's county, Is forty miles west of Dublin, and on the high road to Limerick. The town was formerly called Protector, and the county of Leix.