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Irish Genealogy	This Irish Government supported, official web site, dedicated to helping you in your search for records of family history for past generations.	View
National Archives Of Ireland	The National Archives holds a wide variety of records, many of which are relevant to Irish genealogy and local history.	View
Interment.net: Cemeteries Of Ireland	A database of cemetery transcriptions indexed by county.	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
Northern Ireland Office	The Northern Ireland Office is responsible for overseeing the Northern Ireland devolution settlement and representing Northern Ireland interests at UK Government level and UK Government interests in Northern Ireland.	View
Northern Ireland Office	The Northern Ireland Office is responsible for overseeing the Northern Ireland devolution settlement and representing Northern Ireland interests at UK Government level and UK Government interests in Northern Ireland.	View
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
Gravestone Records	From Ireland.net has currently amassed 50,000 gravestone entries and continues to collect and add entries to the database on a daily basis.	View
Irish Graveyard Place	An Irish Graveyard blog by Jane Lyons of gravestone transcriptions and thousands of photographs, too.	View
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
Castles Of Ireland	Early stone fortifications, castles, towers, and strong-houses, separated and arranged by county name.	View
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
Landowners In Ireland, 1876	Name of every land owner in Ireland 1876 who had at least one acre of land.	View
Surname Registry	Entries archives by county name.	View
Eircom Telephone Directory	Ireland's telephone directory.	View
Ancestry.co.uk Ireland Message Board	Read and post messages with other genealogy researchers	View
Griffith's Valuation Search At My Irish Ancestry.com	Free membership and search over 1,000,000 million records.	View
Flaxgrowers Of Ireland, 1796	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.	View
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
Births In Ireland, 1864	Birth registration in Ireland (including Northern Ireland) began in 1864. The indexes you find on this site are the first step of a two step process in finding a birth record registered in Ireland.	View
IreAtlas Townlad Database, 1851	Based on the 1851 Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland.	View
From Ireland	Free resource for Irish ancestry, genealogy and family history information. Tens of thousands of free available records online.	View
Carlow County IGP	General resource page for Co. Carlow.	View
Megalithic Ireland	This web site features many megalithic, early christian and fortified sites we have visited around Ireland.	View
Historic Graves	A community focused grass roots heritage project which digitally records and publishes historic graveyard surveys and related multimedia stories.	View
Penal Laws Of Ireland	Laws in Ireland for the suppression of popery.	View
Online Census Records For Ireland	Categorised by county.	View
Genuki: Ireland	"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)]	View
Co. Carlow Extracts From Bagenalstown Parish Register	Extracts containing mainly McDonald & Cullen surnames.	View
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
Carlow County Convicts & Felons	Records and lists.	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
Look Around Carlow	Look Around Ireland is website dedicated to give users from both at home and abroad a virtual tour of Ireland using the latest technology such as interactive 360 degree images. The website has taken a number of years to create and is always an ongoing project of improvement.	View
Able Men Of Carlow, 1810	Able men in the Barony of Idrone East and West for the Year 1810. Parish of Wells.	View
Baptismal Records Of Borris Parish, County Carlow	All material transcribed by Bob Joyce.	View
Carlow's International Archievers	You can read all about these people in a book entitled "Carlow International Achievers" by Jimmy O'Toole.	View
Carlow's Sons & Daughters	Carlow and Graiguecullen sons and daughters.	View
County Carlow Convicts Sent To Australia, 1800	National Archives for research into the transportation of Irish convicts to Australia (1791â€“1853).	View
County Carlow Obituaries	Obituaries and memorials index.	View
County Carlow Surname Registry	There are now over 500 names registered on the Carlow surname registry.	View
County Carlow Message Board	Ancestry.co.uk message board for County Carlow.	View
County Carlow, Ireland Genealogy Project	This website is dedicated to all Carlovian's at home and around the world for without their generous contributions that they have all made to this website, it would not have become one of the largest Irish County websites that it is today. The aim is to bring to life various elements of the Carlow communities by way of its people, heritage, culture and arts and to acknowledge those who have contributed to its history both past and present. Provide historical information about the county and it's records within the county, which we hope will assist people trace their ancestors and enlighten people, young and old, about this great Irish county of Carlow. It also means that the material is archived for its future generations.	View
Emigrants From Wexford And Carlow To Canada 1817	These lists of Protestant and Roman Catholic emigrants from counties Carlow and Wexford intending to emigrate to British America (via Quebec) list only the head-of-household, with the numbers of persons within each family group. The lists were compiled at the end of November 1817 and indicated the intention of those entered, to sail in the Spring of 1818 as of that date.	View
Finn's Leinster Journal 1770	The following details have been transcribed from the "Finn's Linster Journal" newspaper, which can be found on micro film at County Carlow Library, Tullow Street, Carlow, Co Carlow.	View
Killeshin Parish Baptisms 1819-1881	The Killeshin Baptisms seem to finish in 1881. There are some missing pages, either right or left hand side, as follows: 1857, 1859, 1860, 1864, 1865 and 1874.	View
Tullow: Pigot & Co's 1829 Directory Of Merchants And Tradesmen	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.	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
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
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
Irish Family History Foundation	To view an individual detail genealogy record you will need to purchase credit vouchers at a cost of â‚¬5.00 per record.	View
Irish Genealogy And History Books	Irish Genealogy Books on each and every county in Ireland, and Classic Histories from the Four Masters, to Keatings History, and Conquest of Ireland. Includes rare works like the Irish Book of Arms and the 'Missouri Irish'. 60 titles published by the Irish Genealogical Foundation.	View
Kevin Barry: An Unforgotten Patriot	Kevin Barry from Tombeagh, Hacketstown, Co. Carlow had attended national school in Rathvilly, Co. Carlow and secondary school in Belvedere College, Dublin and in 1920 he was a medical student in University College Dublin (U.C.D.).	View
Carlow County Museum	Carlow Town Council & Carlow County Council in association with the Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society are upgrading and improving Carlow County Museum.	View
Workhouses In Ireland	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.	View
Irish Country Women's Association	ICA members meet in local groups across the country, almost 700 Guilds each of which offers a varied programmes of activity including trips and visits, crafts and art, interesting speakers, competitions and a whole lot more.	View
Irish Graveyards	The homepage of Irish Graveyard Surveyors. This site provides the facility to search a number of Irish graveyards to locate a specific grave or simply to browse through a graveyard or number of graveyards. You can use our search engine or our graveyard locator to find what you are looking for.	View
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
Born A Soldier: Myles Walter Keogh	Myles Walter Keogh was born on March 25, 1840, at Orchard House, a stone dwelling that still stands near the village of Leighlinbridge, County Carlow.	View
Carlow Rural Tourism	Our Carlow brochures give you all the information you need to get the most of your holiday with us.	View
Slater's Commercial Directory Of Ireland: Ulster 1846	Scanned images of Slater's Commercial directory of Ireland 1846.	View
Local Libraries In Northern Ireland	List of local libraries in Northern Ireland.	View
Ulster History Timeline	A brief overview of Ulster's history.	View
Carlow County Webpage	This website is dedicated to all Carlovian's at home and around the world for without their generous contributions that they have all made to this website, it would not have become one of the largest Irish County websites that it is today.	View
LibraryIreland.com's Topographical Dictionary	Compromising several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate markets and post towns, parishes and villages.	View
Ulster Heritage: All Things Ulster	Here you will find information about Ulster genealogy, families, clans, history and culture. This is the place to renew one’s Ulster roots and to meet other Ulster folk.	View
Ancestors On Board	Passenger lists with over 24 million records from ships sailing to destinations worldwide.	View
Carlow & Wexford Emigrants To Canada, 1818	These lists of Protestant and Roman Catholic emigrants from counties Carlow and Wexford intending to emigrate to British America (via Quebec) list only the head-of-household, with the numbers of persons within each family group.	View
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
Ireland Mailing Lists	Extensive list of mailing list links.	View
Myles Keogh: Three Wars; Two Continents; One Irish Soldier	The life and military career of Myles Walter Keogh, born March 25th, 1840 at Orchard, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow.	View
My Irish Ancestry	Post your Irish genealogy family research query on Irish county forums.	View
Irish Index	A unique source for over 15,000 birth, marriage and death announcements appearing in a leading Irish newspaper during the years 1817-23.	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.	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
Northern Ireland Publications Resource, NIPR	Northern Ireland has no National Library, so NIPR aims to identify, collect and preserve every book, pamphlet, periodical and report published in Northern Ireland since January 2000 and create an accompanying bibliography.	View
Cemetery Records, Co. Carlow	Including rcords for Ballyknockan, Borris, Tullow and many, many more.	View
Carlow Records	General resource for all things County Carlow.	View
County Carlow GenWeb Project	Includes a range of records and articles relating to Co. Carlow.	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
Irish Genealogy Blog	Irish genealogy news from Dr. Jane Lyons, the creator of From-Ireland.net.	View
County Carlow 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
1901 Census, From-Ireland.net	The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage.	View
1931 Trade Directory	Directories set out to record the 'principal inhabitants' of a community, particularly those in trade or the professions.	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
Lewis' Topographical Dictionary	This topographical dictionary comprises of several counties, cities, boroughs, parish and villages - with historical and statistical descriptions - of Ireland.	View
Estate Records, Co. Carlow	Estate records for County Carlow.	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
Facebook's Irish Genealogy	Facebook page for Irish Genealogy	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
Patrick O'Donoghue	Patrick O’Donoghue, a Carlow man (born in Clonegall), who was employed as a Law Clerk in Dublin and who was one of the most active members of the Irish Confederation in the City, had the distinction of editing a paper, the ‘Irish Exile’, while undergoing a sentence of transportation in Van Dieman’s Land with Smith O’Brien, Mitchel, Meagher, Martin and McManus. He succeeded in escaping to the United States in 1852.	View
Carlow News, The King's County Chronicle	A most serious case of the above nature occurred at Carrigslaney, County Carlow, on the 14th instant, which seems to have originated in some previous quarrel. Two men, named Philip Furlong and John Williams, alias Foster had some altercation at the above place, when Furlong asked Foster to fight him.	View
Clonegal Baptisms, 1833	National Library of Ireland ref: Pos #4197. Baptismal Index 1833 (complete) & Donohoe, Mahan and selected surnames to 1843.	View
Emigration & Education Statistics, 1931, Co. Carlow	Carlow county is in the province of Leinster. It is bounded on the north by Kildare and Wicklow, on the east by Wicklow and Wexford, on the south by Wexford and west by Kilkenny & Laois (Queen's county).	View
Official Authorities, 1834, Co. Carlow	Population: 1821: 78,9520, 1831: 81,576. Constituency: 1,246.	View
St. Patricks College Carlow Report, 1866	One scheme put forward by the Liberal administration in 1866 proposed to grant a supplemental charter to the Queen’s University, empowering it to examine and confer degrees on students other than those of the Queen’s colleges. A bill on these lines was introduced and carried by a narrow majority.	View
Carlow Freeholders, 1767	Includes close to sixty names and records.	View
Memorandums Made In Ireland, 1852, Co. Carlow	Extracts from 'Memorandums made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852' by John Forbes, M.D., F.R.S. Vol. I, London. Publishers: Smith, Elder & Co., Cornhill, 1853.	View
Tithe Applotment Book (TAB), Barragh, Co. Carlow	The names of the people who leased property in Barragh Civil Parish, Co. Carlow are listed alphabetically below, with the name of the townland. The TAB for this parish is reasonably easy to read, you will see some questionmarks as to spellings.	View
Carlow Townland Index, 1851	Features up to two-hundred records.	View
Leighlinbridge Baptismal Register, 1827	This set of parish records during the years 1827-38 include townlands from the following Civil Parishes: Agha, Cloydagh, Killinane, Old Leighlin, and Tullowcreen.	View
Fuck Yeah, Ireland	A photography blog featuring beautiful photographs taken by different people of various locations in Ireland.	View
1788 Lucas’ General Directory, Co. Carlow	Search through records for Co. Carlow from the general Directory of the Kingdom of Ireland, 1788 by Richard Lucas.	View
Terms Used: “Graveyard”, “Cemetery” or “Memorial Park”?	A little at a time: The two words which tend to get mis-used are those of Cemetery and Graveyard so here are a few definitions for you:	View
Killesher Marriage Records, Co. Fermanagh	Some marriage records from Killesher Parish with children added, where known.	View
The Great Rush of Birds on the Night of March 29th-30th, 1911	THE GREAT RUSH OF BIRDS ON THE NIGHT OF MARCH 29TH-30TH, AS OBSERVED IN IRELAND. By R. M. Barrington, M.A. Published in the Irish Naturalist Vol. XX, June 1911 On the night of March 29th, a great rush of birds was observed in several towns of S. E. Ireland, and also at some light-stations long the coast from Balbriggan to the Old Head of Kinsale.	View
Baptism and Marriage Extracts, Church of Ireland, Carlow Town, 1747-1855	A few baptismal and marriage extracts from the Church of Ireland parish registers of Carlow town, Co. Carlow. Spellings are exactly as I read them with no changes. Question marks show where I had difficulty reading a word or a name.	View
Ballyknockan Church, Oldleighlin, Co. Carlow	These photographs were taken April 2014. Ballyknockan Church, Oldleighlin, Co. Carlow	View
Research Help: Where Do Your Family Come From in Ireland?	People ask me all the time where in Ireland their surname may be found. A lot of these people, their ancestor/s left Ireland pre the ‘main’ famine time so they never think to look in records that we have which are for a time later than that famine period, and they should, they should particularly look at the distribution in the Griffiths Primary Valuation as per the examples I give below.	View
Carlow Town District Death Records, Co. Carlow	This page features civil death records for the district of Carlow in Co. Carlow and includes (where possible) full names, the year of death, and the quarter in which the death occurred, and an age.	View
Video Presentation at Beyond the Grave Conference	Dr. Jane Lyons speaks on Surveys and Transcriptions of the Graveyards of the Dioceses of Ossory. Published by Limerick Museum Archives.	View
Eighteenth-Century Funerals in Ireland	There are, possibly, few of us who, making an early and painful acquaintance with Poetry, did not have to memorise these lines by the Rev. Charles Wolfe, descriptive of the burial of Sir John Moore after the battle of Corunna on 13th January, 1809 :	View
Eighteenth-Century Midwifery in Dublin, Ireland	How did the Dublin citizen of the 18th century made his or her debut in this city of ours?	View
Volunteers North and South of Ireland 100 Years Ago	Mrs Blake, nee Foley Captain. Maggie Relihan sec, Asdee Ballylongford. Mrs W Finucane, nee Coughlin, treasurer, Larha, Asdee. Mrs Moran nee Deenihan, Mary A Russel. Mrs J Walsh. Annie O Connor.	View
Ireland and The Olympics	Dan Ahearne won world Championship in Hop Step and Jump July 4th 1909 at Celtic Park. Edward Barrett of Rahela, Ballyduff Edward Barrett was born in Rahela, Ballyduff in 1882. father Thomas and mother Bridget Whelan.	View
Irish Death Notices	Webpage containing death notices within Ireland.	View
Some Irish Superstitions	Superstition is generally regarded as the offspring of the religious instinct in man misled by ignorance. Few other human weakness’ have been so unsparingly and so unanimously denounced, and yet, it survives: the savage carries his charm, and the modern motorist or the regiment on the battlefield has its mascot. Above or behind probably a million doors in England the horseshoe will be found nailed up, and there is a general desire to avoid association with the unlucky number thirteen. Neither of these were Irish superstitions, but we are borrowing them, for to the anglicised Irish mind even superstition is respectable when it happens to be English. Irish superstitions on the other hand are rapidly dying out, not because they are superstitious, but because they are only Irish, and have no place in English social life.	View
The Townland: How To Use In Genealogy	How do we deal with finding out that there are four townlands of the same name? How do we find out exactly which townland our family came from? How do we work out which records are of importance to us, actually refer to our family and not another family of the same surname? They are really the questions that have to be asked and dealt with.	View
Megalithic Monuments of Ireland.com	This website is the result of on-going love and passion for Archaeology as well as our devotion to the wonderment of the many Megalithic monuments throughout Ireland. All counties of Ireland are covered, some more extensively than others, and include photos, information & co-ordinates of sites. Continuously being up-dated with some fantastic photos of these extraordinary monuments, which have stood proudly today as a durable testament to their ingenious builders.	View
The Townland: How To Use In Genealogy	How do we deal with finding out that there are four townlands of the same name? How do we find out exactly which townland our family came from? How do we work out which records are of importance to us, actually refer to our family and not another family of the same surname? They are really the questions that have to be asked and dealt with.	View
Women at War: Ireland's Forgotten Heroines of the Era	Tens of thousands of women across the island of Ireland threw themselves enthusiastically into the war effort, yet very little has been written about them.	View