Ireland Genealogy Links
Listed below are links to Irish genealogy websites, essential for successful research in Ireland. The majority of them are free, but the subscription sites should not be discounted as some of them have very useful record sets.
If you think a website should be added to this list, please email me at alistair@bespokegenealogy.com
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Website |
Terms |
Record Summary |
|---|---|---|
| The National Archives of Ireland | Free | Surviving censuses, tithe applotment books, wills, marriage licence bonds indexes, land records and shipping records |
| IrishGenealogy.ie | Free | Civil vital records and some church records |
| National Library of Ireland | Free | Roman Catholic parish registers |
| Family Search | Free | Several records sets including Church of Ireland and Catholic transcripts |
| FindMyPast | Subscription | Largest and most comprehensive collection of record sets on the web. Records include electoral rolls, Irish army discharge registers, wills, dog licence registers, merchant navy lists, school records and directories |
| Ancestry | Subscription | Large collection of record sets including parish register transcriptions, wills and directories |
| My Heritage | Subscription | Collection of record sets includes passenger lists, wills and directories |
| John Grenham/Irish Ancestors | Subscription | Reference point for Irish genealogy records, surname distribution and parish and poor law maps |
| Roots Ireland | Subscription | Transcripts of Catholic and other church registers |
| Public Record Office of Northern Ireland | Free | Maps, directories, valuation records and freeholder records |
| General Register Office Northern Ireland | Pay per view | Civil birth, marriage and death records for Northern Ireland |
| Irish Genealogy Toolkit | Free | Useful information on Irish genealogical research |
| From-Ireland | Free | Over 70,000 free Irish gravestone records with coverage of all 32 counties. Also other records including directories and a Roman Catholic parish index as of 1836 |
| Eddie’s Extracts | Free | Birth, marriage and death extracts transcribed from historical Irish newspapers. |
| Ask About Ireland | Free | Griffith’s Valuation |
| SWilson.info | Free | Includes historic maps, a Townland database and directories |
| Fáilte Romhat | Free | Sets include Land Owners in Ireland 1876, Irish Flax Growers List 1796, Pigot & Co’s Provincial Directory of Ireland 1824, Postal Directory of Cork 1842-43, Slater’s Commercial Directory of Ireland 1846, Guy’s Postal Directory of Cork 1914 and cemetery transcriptions and photographs |
| Ulster Ancestry | Some Free Pages | Sets include passenger lists, directories and headstone transcriptions from Northern Ireland |
| Irish Family History Centre | Some Free Pages | Free pages include downloads of the excellent Irish Lives Remembered magazine |
| Find A Grave | Free | Some Irish grave records |
| British Newspaper Archive | Subscription | Large collection of Irish and British historical newspaper titles |
| Irish Newspaper Archive | Subscription | Collection of Irish Newspaper titles |
| Newspapers.com | Subscription | Large historic newspaper collection includes some Irish titles |
| Irish Examiner | Subscription | Archives of the national Irish Examiner |
| Irish Times | Subscription | Archives of the national Irish Times |
| Oireachtas Library | Free | Dublin Gazette – the official newspaper of the Irish government which included notices of insolvency and changes of names |
| Belfast Gazette | Free | Replaced the Dublin Gazette as the official newspaper of Northern Ireland from 1922 |
| Grace’s Guide | Free | Historical records about companies and industries. Mostly British coverage, but there are some Irish records |
| Library Ireland | Free | Origins of Irish names, pedigrees and directories |
| Forebears | Free | Meanings and distribution of Irish and British surnames |
| Iogaim.ie | Free | The official place names directory for Ireland |
| IreAtlas | Free | Townlands database |
| Military Archives | Free | Includes pension records, witness statements from the war of independence, 1922 Army census and accounts of the 1916 uprising |
| The Down Survey of Ireland | Free | Surviving maps from Cromwell’s 1656-1658 survey of Ireland |
| Church of Ireland Genealogy | Free | Details and locations of the surviving parish registers as well a link to a small number of digitized records |
| Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland | Free | No online records are available, but there is help and advice on how to access church records |
| Methodist Historical Society of Ireland | Free | Plenty of information on Methodism in Ireland including an index of Methodist Churches, Chapels and Preaching Houses and a list of Cemeteries |
| The Methodist Church in Ireland | Free | Methodist parish registers are not available online. Physical records are normally still held at the Church. Use this link to find a Church |
| Irish Jewish Genealogical Society | Free | A database of over 61,000 Irish Jewish names dating from the 1700s to the present day |
| Historic Graves | Free | Surveys of Irish graveyards |
| Irish Genealogy Projects | Free | Pooled resources about Irish families |
| Irish Graveyards | Free | Detailed graveyard surveys |
| Registry of Deeds Index Project Ireland | Free | Indexes for finding records held by the Registry of Deeds in Dublin |
| The Great Irish Famine Online | Free | Information and maps about the Great Famine |
| Interment.net | Free | Cemetery Records |
| Ralston Genealogy | Free | Irish and Scottish passenger lists |
| Immigrant Ships | Free | Some Passenger Lists for ships from Irish ports |
| Our Irish Heritage | Free | Personal Irish histories |
| Ireland-Australia Transportation Database | Free | Transcripts of records of Irish people sentenced to transportation to Australia |
| National Folklore Collection UCD Digitization Project | Free | Folklore stories collected from Irish school children 1937-38 and historic photographs |
| Irish Famine Emigration Database | Free | Database of Irish emigration to the US during the famine years |
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