Occupations
This section will feature a history of Irish occupations, those long discarded and held within the past, and those which evolved to modern titles we hold today.
An extraction of names and references to religious events that were published as part of St. Mary’s history in 1929. There is no other information available in this book other than the information published here.
Ancestry.co.uk search. Information on over 56,000 persons involved in the flax industry.
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.
Excerpted from "Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local History".
Noted in alphabetical order are older names of occupations. Example: accomptant/accountant.
Noted in alphabetical order are older names of occupations. Example: accomptant/accountant.
"Run away on the 30th of December last, from the subscriber living in Packston township, Lancaster county, and province of Pennsylvania, a servant man, named Richard Pritchard, born in Wales, but was brought up in Ireland, a middle size fellow, well set, of a fresh complexion, one of his under teeth longer than the rest, with short black hair, almost as coarse as horsehair, speaks with a lisp, and takes snuff, about 25 or 30 years of age."
This site is dedicated to the Coastguards who lived and worked around the Irish coastline between the 18th and early 20th centuries. It includes a collection of CG station photos as well as facts and figures about the people , births, deaths, census information, etc.
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.
The Equality Authority is an independent body set up under the Employment Equality Act 1998. It was established on 18th October 1999.
The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) was created in 1816, and initially staffed mainly by Irish-born men.
I tie flies professionally and run a fly tying business where I tie flies from my shop in Abbeyleix, County Laois, Ireland.
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.
Fuller One, who fulls cloth - one who shrinks and thickens woolen cloth by moistening, heating, and pressing; one who cleans and finishes cloth.
Includes clergy, gentry, trades, businesses, and professions.
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.
Including John Tyndall (1820 - 1893), who discovered why the sky is blue.
The Guinness Archive preserves the historical records of the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in Dublin from 1759 to the present.
List of flaw growers in County Cavan in the year 1796.
Well into the twentieth century, the vast majority of the Irish were landless labourers or small tenant farmers. Of their nature, such occupations have left very little in the way of records.
Government grants of spinning wheels to those growing certain quantities of flax for the linen trade. The list of persons receiving same are recorded by name, parish and county.
LDS Film No 856057 Service Numbers 0001 - 4000. Covering Years 1816-40.
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.
A list of persons to whom premiums for sowing flax-seed in the year 1796 have been adjudged by the trustees of the linen manufacture.
A manual and directory for manufacturers, merchants, traders, professional men, land-owners, farmers, tourists, anglers and sportsmen generally.
A list of persons to whom premiums for sowing flax-seed in the year 1796 have been adjudged by the trustees of the linen manufacture.
Published in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1894, Vol. II.
A list of mayors of Waterford City from the Year 1377 To 1891 inclusive.
Promoting and developing Cork as a world class port facilitating the efficient and environmentally sustainable movement of goods and people to and from the marketplace while advancing the marine leisure opportunities presented by Cork’s natural harbour.
Published in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1894, Vol. II.
Directories set out to record the 'principal inhabitants' of a community, particularly those in trade or the professions.
This is a list of people employed by the Irish Revenue Service in 1709. The surnames are for the most part English, those of Anglo-Irishmen. Some of these people would have been Englishmen who came to Ireland and settled down.
Representative: John Browne, Esq., (cousin to the Marquess of Sligo), 2 Mansfield street, London and Mount Brown, Co. Mayo, Dominick Browne, Esq., Brookes Club House, London and Castlemacgarret, Co. Mayo.
Trade Directory for County Roscommon in 1931. Includes close to 500 records.
All spellings are as on original document. There are possibly some errors such as Wm. Quirke being listed as a curate in two parishes.
This link contains a list of fifty or so names with accompanying addresses.
Population: 1821: 78,9520, 1831: 81,576. Constituency: 1,246.
Representatives: Edward Ruthven, Esq., Son of the Member for Dublin City. 15, College street, London and Ballyfair House, Kilcullen Richard More O’Ferrall, Esq., 56, Jermyn street, London England, and Ballyna, Clonard.
Representatives: Honorable george John (Forbes), Viscount Forbes, eldest son of the Earl of Granard, a Major-General in the army. Castle Forbes, Co. Longford. Anthony Lefroy, Esq., son of the Member for Dublin University and Son-in-Law of Viscount Lorton, 84, Eaton Square, London, England.
Henry Grattan, Esq., brother to the Member for Wicklow County. 3, Manchester Buildings, London, England ; & Moyrath, County Meath. Morgan O\'Connell, Esq., second son of the Member for Dublin City. 14, Albermarle street, London, England; Merrion Square, Dublin City ; & Derrynan Abbey, County Kildare.
In Ireland, many of the towns had a square, and around the square were houses (homes) with one or two shops or business's. 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.
Also known as the Spinning Wheel List or the Flax Growers Bounty List 1796, the Flax Seed Premium Entitlement lists the names of persons in Ireland to whom the Trustees of the Linen Manufacturers paid premiums for sowing flax in 1796. Most entitlements were paid in Northern Ireland. The list here shows the Kerry recipients and the civil parish of their residence.
The following ladies were all Roman Catholic Nuns, could read and write and were not married. Their ages and the place of birth are listed here. No guarantee is given that the following are accurate, as names listed in the street indices as filled out by the area enumerator often differ from those found on the census detail sheets (Form A) as filled out by the Head of Household.
Search through records for Co. Carlow from the general Directory of the Kingdom of Ireland, 1788 by Richard Lucas.