1500s Irish History
We've categorised links by their time period so you may search Ireland's history through the ages: the 1500s, almost synonymous with the 16th century. Currently includes: record indexes, will indexes, and "memorials of the dead".
The following were the names of the principal families in Ireland, of Irish, Anglo-Norman, and Anglo-Irish origin. This list from "Irish Pedigrees" by John O'Hart, vol. 2.
Ancestry.co.uk search. This Irish genealogy database includes histories, pedigrees, parish registers, probates, and orphan's court records.
This is an index to records at the National Archives of Ireland only. It is only concerned with those records which survive in more than index form. In other words: original documents, copies, transcripts, abstracts and extracts. Over 102,000 names. Pay only.
Transcripts from "The Association for the Preservation of Memorials of the Dead, in Ireland" are available to full and premium members of IFR.
The history and genealogy of the village of Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny, and the surrounding area.
This exhibition looks at how the governments and people of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and of England's French territories, interacted in politics, warfare, religion, trade and everyday life.
From the consolidation of English power in 1691 until well into the nineteenth century, religion was the gulf which divided the colonial rulers of Ireland from the native majority. This sectarian division resulted from deliberate government policy.
But if that country of Ireland whence you lately came, be so goodly and commodious a soyle as you report, I wounder that no course is taken for the tourning therof to good uses, and reducing that salvage nation to better goverment and civillity.
The purpose of this document is to help you understand the types of clothing worn by the Scots and the Irish during the 16th Century.
They are arranged alphabetically and list name, place and date of probate.
The following description of County Louth is taken from Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, by William Camden, first published in 1586 (and constantly revised by him up to 1607).
A list of mayors of Waterford City from the Year 1377 To 1891 inclusive.
A friend of mine told me that one of the oldest gravestones in the Diocese of Ossory was in this graveyard one day – I said to him, “Eirke? You mean that Protestant church I can see as I trip from Rathdowney to Johnstown, out there near Galmoy?” His reply was that it had once been a Protestant church but had been consecrated and that he had gone to mass there as a child.
Barnwall, Baron, Bathe, De, Butler, Baron, Dillon, Dowdall, Fitz-Eustace, Baron, Chevers, Cruise, Fitzgerald (or Fitzgibbon), Cusack (O'Cisoghe) The White Knight, Dalton, Baron, Darcy, Dardis, Fleming, Baron, Geneville, De, Lord, Lacey, De,