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Flaxgrowers, Co. Roscommon, 1796 The Irish Linen Board published a list of nearly 60,000 individuals in 1796. This link contains some of those from Co. Roscommon. View
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Leitrim-Roscommon Run by Ed Finn, it is here that we find the "IreAtlas" database. View
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County Roscommon Criminals Transported To Australia 1836-53 Courtesy of the National Archives of Ireland - and alphabetised. View
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The Leitrim-Roscommon Genealogy Website Surname database, town database, 1901 Census, and 1749 Elphin Census database. View
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Griffiths Search Page For County Roscommon Between 1848 and 1864, all of the land of Ireland was surveyed for the purpose of establishing the level of rates (local tax) to be paid by each landholder or leaseholder. For County Leitrim the survey was conducted in 1856, and for County Roscommon the survey was conducted in 1857 and 1858. View
Ireland Newspaper Abstracts The links contained within will take you to the articles currently on Ireland Old News.com and are organized by county of publication, year and month. These pages are updated frequently so be sure to check back often for your particular interests. View
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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
The Landed Estates Database Welcome to the Landed Estates Web site, a searchable, online database of all Landed Estates in Connacht and Munster, maintained by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway. The Landed Estates Database provides a comprehensive and integrated resource guide to landed estates and historic houses in Connacht and Munster, c. 1700-1914. The aim of this guide is to assist and support researchers working on the social, economic, political and cultural history of Connacht and Munster from c.1700 to 1914. View
Ireland Roots General resource. View
Griffith's Primary Valuations, Co. Leitrim & Co. Roscommon The L-R Griffiths DataBase is a unique effort on the part of the staff here at the Leitrim-Roscommon site, and as such, I believe that a little explanation of it's operation and functionality is called for. For those of you who have background experience working with database applications, such as ACCESS, ALPHA, FOCUS and many others, you can appreciate that the Griffiths database is a true database that is resident on the Leitrim-Roscommon server. The database application name is POSTGRES, and as a "true" database, it has all the functionality that is common to database applications. Because of this feature, we will be able to incorporate various changes to our list of user configurable options associated with the searching and output routines. As always, we can only make these improvements and changes when we hear from you, our users and researchers. Make use of the email address to Ed Finn to pass your comments and suggestions along to the staff. View
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Log Ainm Placenames Database of Ireland, developed by Fiontar (DCU) and The Placenames Branch (Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht). View
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Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon Ballaghaderreen is a busy Cathedral town of approximately 2000 population situated on the Mayo/Roscommon border close to the Lung River. View
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The Strokestown Park Strokestown Park is a unique visitor attraction in Strokestown. Co Roscommon in The West of Ireland comprising of Strokestown Park House, a Georgian Palladian mansion preserved with its original furnishings and fabrics, which can be seen daily by guided tour. View
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Ballaghaderreen And Surroundings, County Roscommon The way of the little oak. View
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LibraryIreland.com's Topographical Dictionary Compromising several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate markets and post towns, parishes and villages. View
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Roscommon Roots The County Roscommon Heritage and Genealogy Centre have been offering a research service for people with Roscommon roots since 1988. View
Roscommon Historical Research Roscommon is a fascinating county, steeped in history, a huge amount of which has been written down. View
County Roscommon Family History Society The County Roscommon Family History Society was founded in 1993 to record and preserve information related to County Roscommon people and to publish information on, about and in connection with County Roscommon. View
Baslic Cemetery, Co. Roscommon Transcribed index of Baslic cemetery. View
Old Shankill Cemetery, County Roscommon According to locals this was the original cemetery used for Elphin. Old Shankill Cemetery is very old. Some of the stones are only stumps and cannot be read. View
Kilglass Marriages Prior To 1850, Co. Roscommon Note: One or both parties born in and married in Kilglass Parish, Co. Roscommon, Ireland before 1850. View
The Leitrim-Roscommon Map Collection Hundreds of historical maps pertaining to the counties of Leitrim and Roscommon. View
Creggs Parish, County Roscommon An image of the mapped Creggs Parish: Creggs Parish is in the Ballymoe Barony, and is disected by the Civil Parish's of Dunamon (yellow), Ballynakill (light blue), Kilbegnet (green). View
The Leitrim-Roscommon Elphin Census, 1749 Searchable records. 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
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Diocese Of Achonry Achonry is a Roman Catholic Diocese in the West of Ireland. There are twenty-three parishes in the diocese - eleven each in Counties Sligo and Mayo and one, the Cathedral Parish, in Co. Roscommon. View
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Gurteen Cemetery, Co. Sligo This cemetery is situated on the ruins of an old church and is on the left hand side of the road before the village of Gurteen coming from the direction of Boyle. Co. Roscommon. 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
County Roscommon 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
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1931 Trade Directory Directories set out to record the 'principal inhabitants' of a community, particularly those in trade or the professions. View
Lewis' Topographical Dictionary This topographical dictionary comprises of several counties, cities, boroughs, parish and villages - with historical and statistical descriptions - of Ireland. 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
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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
Bog Bursts: By County A.D. 1824, December 22.-Bog of Ballywindelland, Colerlaine. A portion of this bog containing 80 or 100 acres gave way and passed into an adjoining valley: it gradually advanced on the firm land, during theday, at the rate of 2 feet per minute. View
County Roscommon On-Line A general resource webpage with genealogical and historical information from Co. Roscommon. View
Census, Heads Of Household, 1911, Co. Roscommon Close to 200 records for County Roscommon, 1911. View
Emigration & Education Statistics, 1931, Co. Roscommon Roscommon, an inland county, is bounded on the north by counties Sligo and Leitrim, on the east by counties Leitrim, Longford and Westmeath, on the south by Offaly (King’s county) and Galway and on the west by Galway and Mayo. Its greatest length is 60 miles and its greatest breadth from Rooskey to a point west of Lough Errit, is 33.5 miles. View
Geevagh Marriages, 1851-55 Geevagh Roman Catholic Parish, National Library of Ireland ref: Pos # 4607. The first two sets of registers on this film are for Geevagh. View
Trades Directory, 1931, Co. Roscommon Trade Directory for County Roscommon in 1931. Includes close to 500 records. View
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Kilglass, Ballykilcine Graveyard Records, Co. Roscommon I went to Kilglass Cemetery with Cassie when she was over, it was really to let her go round the cemetery looking for stones with names she wanted but when we waited for her, I went round photographing some stones. I didn’t get too many, but I indexed them today and these are the names. I have given each stone a name with the surnames that are on it, so I am leaving the stone name in this index. I hope it doesn’t turn out ‘confused’ looking if any line is too long for the page. 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
Marriage Records, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, 1848-51 The last three sets of registers on this film are for Boyle, later records for Boyle are on Pos #4608. This names in this index were taken from the third set of Boyle records on the film. View
Strokestown House, Co. Roscommon Photographs Collection of photographs from Strokestown House, Co. Roscommon. 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
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
Athleague Roman Catholic Baptismal Index, Co. Roscommon, 1808 This set of parish records are listed in the book I have as being Athleague & Fuerty. However, on the microfilm of the parish records there is no mention of Fuerty in the title. View
Bog Bursts, Co. Roscommon After a sudden thaw of snow, the bog between Bloomfield and Geevagh gave way; and a black deluge, carrying with it the contents of 100 acres of bog, took the direction of a small stream, and rolled on with the violence of a torrent, sweeping along heath, timber, mud, and stones, and overwhelming many meadows and arable land. View
Baptism Records, Athleague, Co. Roscommon, 1838-40 I wanted to look at the 1840 records but, knowing family history or genealogy records the way I do I figured begin with the 1839 records. So, I did. Unfortunately parish records can be confusing when you see them on a microfilm and lots of times, regardless of your experience when you are presented with a record which has two pages beside one another instead of remembering that the page on the left is an earlier year or time of the year, you can work automatically and just go from one page to the next. View
Baptism Records, Killukin & Killumod (Croghan), Co. Roscommon The Roman Catholic Parish registers for this parish begin on 24th June, 1811 and continue through to 26th Dec 1880. The National Library of Ireland reference for the film is 4606. The LDS have a copy of this film according to my information, the reference is 0989741, items 1-4. View
Baptism Records, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, 1838 "The parish records for Boyle begin on 13th February 1793 and continue with gaps to 29th Dec, 1880. I have indexed the baptisms for the months from 1st Jan to 22nd April 1838 using the film at the National Library of Ireland." 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
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