Irish Interest Group
New people are always welcome to this popular interest group; did you know, for every person living in Ireland, there are 10 of Irish descent somewhere else in the world; are you one of them? Bring any family names, places or years of interest that you are researching, you might find some surprises! we meet on the second Tuesday of the month, except January, when we are closed; starting at 9.30am until 12 noon, we take a short break for morning tea, please bring a plate if you can.
only $2.00 to join in
Irish Interest Group Dates for 2024:
February 13 May 14 August 13 November 12
March 12 June 11 September 10 December 10
April 9 July 9 October 8
Useful adresses to Irish sources and the Archives
ULSTER HISTORICAL FOUNDATION
Bradley Thallon House, 44D Belfast Rd, Kiltonga Estate, Balleycullen, Newtownards. BT23 4TJ
email: enquiry@uhf.org.uk
GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE of IRELAND
Administative headquarters: Convent Road, Roscommon
web: www.gov.ie/campaigns/af7893-general-register-office/
Public research room: Werburgh Street, Dublin2
GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE of NORTHERN IRELAND
NISRA, Colby House, Stranmillis Court, belfast, BT95RR
email: gro_nisra@finance-ni.gov.uk
web: www.nidirect.gov.uk/groni
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE of NORTHERN IRELAND
2 Titanic Boulevard, Belfast BT3 9HQ
email: proni@communities-ni.gov.uk
THE MILITARY ARCHIVES
Cathal Brugha Barracks, Rathmines, Dublin 6, Ireland
ph: +353 (0) 1 804 6457
PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Assembley Buildings, Fisherwick Place, Belfast BT1 6DW
REGISTRY of DEEDS
Henrietta Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
web: prai.ie/registry-of-deeds-services/#records
THE REPRESENTATIVE BODY of the CHURCH of IRELAND
The Library, 14 Braemor Park, Rathgar, Dublin6
web: ireland.anglican.org/about/rcb-library
MELLON CENTRE for MIGRATION STUDIES
Ulster-American Folk Park , 2 Mellon Road, Castletown, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 5QY
email: mcms@librariesni.org.uk
Ireland Reaching Out have been sending some interesting emails and I thought it would be worthwhile looking at some of them as a group. https://www.irelandxo.com/
some examples: Irish Parishes Explained; A Question of DNA; Ancestors Masterclass.
Also at some stage I would like to talk about Social media groups. There are hundreds of Irish genealogical based groups on Facebook for example and many are very active and helpful.
Cheers Jocelyn
as of December 2023:
FREE GENERAL IRISH RESEARCH
Church records have a few images but are mostly transcriptions, not all counties; in the Civil records most have links to free images
Search- research wiki- ireland Births and baptisms 1620-1881 (indexes) you may get an image if you know the year and county/parish
www.census.nationalarchives.ie
census of Ireland 1901 and 1911 and census fragments and substitutes 1821 - 1851
www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation
The Primary Valuation, also known as Griffith's Valuation, was the first, full-scale valuation of property in Ireland and details of property with valuations were published between 1847 and 1864. Detailed maps available of all valuations.
Irish genealogy projects, search by county leads to other records
www.johngrenham.com/records/passengers
for shipping records
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Dublin Cemetery Lists.. many Dublin lists you can download...
The list of Cemeteries from Cara can be found on the IGP ArchivesCemetery page for Dublin.
Here is the exact link:
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/dublin/cem.htm Thanks go to Cara for putting this resource together.
Ireland Genealogy Project Archives
The parent site of many Irish projects, including the Dublin Cemetery lists mentioned, and covering all counties of Ireland..
Note the Search box where you can put in name and find entries across all counties.
http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/index.htm
Glasnevin Cemetery County Dublin, Ireland
Finglas Road, Dublin 11, Ireland
Glasnevin is the largest cemetery in Ireland, situated on Finglas Road in Dublin. It is estimated that there are about 1,200,000 burials of several denominations and nationalities in it.
It is split up into sections, as you enter the main gate and turn right you are going into the Garden Section, Dublin Section (E), Dublin Section (W), South Section (W),and South Section (E) and the Offices. As one turns left at the main gate there is Saint Brigid (Dublin) Section, Saint Brigid (Garden) Section, and Saint Patrick Section (North) and Saint Patrick Section (South).
This is not a complete listing of all of the burials in this cemetery. The records below were provided by contributors to Interment.net. Last edited Aug 20, 2009. Total records = 25,517.
The link below is to all the Dublin Cemeteries included in Interment.net, so choose Glasnevin to check out the largest cemetery in Ireland.
http://www.interment.net/ireland/dublin.htm
The Irish Roots Cafe
http://www.irishroots.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
Genealogy and Heraldry in Ireland