Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
• Wicklow Grand Jury Presentments 1818-1899. The Grand Juries’ initial remit was justice, gradually extending to building/maintaining roads, bridges, infirmaries, asylums, courthouses and gaols • Arklow Town & Urban District Council Minute Books 1878-1947 • Wicklow County Council Minute Books…
This is a ground-breaking project which aims to digitally recreate the building and contents of the Public Record Office of Ireland, destroyed by fire at Dublin’s Four Courts in 1922. There is an online video that explains details of the…
This site, by Barbara Barclay, has been created as part of the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Heritage Studies at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Mayo Campus and forms an ongoing project to discover more information about the 137 Mayo…
This site by the Geography Department, University College Cork and Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht offers access interactive maps containing detailed information on the impact of the famine on each of 3,000 civil parishes and 1,600 towns. You…
This extensive site offers access to a wealth of information via several databases. These include: • Irish Surnames – a search returns the surname mapped, a list of variants, surname histories and details of published family histories and more •…
These books include important information on social and political life in the capital during the last years of the Union, from the period of widespread anticipation of Home Rule, to the advent of the 1913 Lockout, the outbreak of the…
This collection of Field General Courts Martial Records holds 2,000+ searchable names as well as additional names found within the images. Each record contains evidence against the defendants, their statements and proclamations. There is also an alphabetical roll of prisoners…
These Intelligence Profiles were created as nationalists in Ireland struggled for independence. The British Intelligence Forces, the Dublin Metropolitan Police and the Royal Irish Constabulary recorded the known daily movements of those suspected of being disloyal to the Crown. Included…
dúchas.ie is a project to digitize the National Folklore Collection of Ireland, one of the largest folklore collections in the world. The Schools’ Collection is the first collection being made available on this site. It is a collection of folklore…
The Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary for the Protection of Irish Immigrant Girls operated from 1883 to 1954 in Watson House overlooking New York Harbour. It was close to the Castle Garden immigration depot. The mission aimed to…