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LOUTH RESOURCES & LINKS
« on: Friday 10 July 09 14:04 UTC (UK) »
Resources and Links in this Section organised by the following catagories:

Census Records & Census Substitutes
Church Records & Graveyards
Land Records & Maps
Directories
Places
People & Families
Libraries, Museums & History Groups
Schools, Workhouses, Institutions, Occupations
Misc. Information


Fantastic site with too many Co. Louth records to list in Resources
Irish Genealogical Project- Louth- lots of links NEW
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Re: LOUTH RESOURCES & LINKS
« Reply #1 on: Friday 10 July 09 14:04 UTC (UK) »
Census Records & Census Substitutes

1602 Census of the Fews

1740 Corn Census (with map)
1796 Flax Growers Lists

1822 Freeholders List
1824 Freeholders (supplementary list)
1832 Voters List
1837 Drogheda Householders
1837 Dundalk Valuations
1839 tenants of Lord Roden
1842 Co. Louth voters
1865 Co. Louth voters

1901 census coming soon

1911 census NOW ONLINE
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Re: LOUTH RESOURCES & LINKS
« Reply #2 on: Friday 10 July 09 14:05 UTC (UK) »
Church Records & Graveyards
General history of various denominations in regard to records
Co. Louth Memorial Inscription sources- name index here
Kane Old Graveyard
Inscriptions- Ballymascanlon, Bridge-A-Crin, Castletown, Faughart Old, Kane Old, Kilcurry, St. Nicholas Old, Urney.
Collon Old Cemetery
Old St. Mary's, Ardee

Church of Ireland:
Collon Parish burials 1791-1823
St. Mary's, Ardee (photo)
St. Peter's, Drogheda

Roman Catholic:
Catholic churches & family history website
Dundalk burials 1790-1802
Haggardstown burials 1868-1900- taken from Dundalk Democrat newspaper
Haggardstown- 1900 subcribers, Sacred Heart altar

Churches in Co. Louth (photos)- unfortunately photos not labelled

Ireland's Gravestone Index- pay site but search is free and can be quite useful (although there are some errors with people being listed twice in wrong parishes) NEW
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Re: LOUTH RESOURCES & LINKS
« Reply #3 on: Friday 10 July 09 14:06 UTC (UK) »
Land Records & Maps
Townlands, Parishes, etc.
Counties are made up of parishes and parishes are made up of a group of townlands. If you are doing any research in Ireland these divisions become extremely important.
For further information:
http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/records/land/townland.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townland
http://www.ancestryireland.com/database.php?filename=townlands
To find townlands, parishes, etc. in Ireland: www.seanruad.com
(change default setting from exact match to find part of a word)

1837 Lewis' Topographical Dictionary

1864 map of Dundalk

Griffith's Valuation (search by place or name):
http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/gv_family_search_form.php

Dual Maps- display two maps side-by-side for single location (Google Maps + Microsoft Virtual Earth Maps).
Multimap
Google Maps
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« Reply #4 on: Friday 10 July 09 14:06 UTC (UK) »
Directories

1824 Pigot's Directory
1837 Drogheda & Dundalk Spirit License Holders
1846 Slater's Commercial Directory of Ireland
1852 Thom's Directory
1876 Carlingford, Omeath, Greenore inhabitants
1886 Bassett's Directory- Co. Louth
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Re: LOUTH RESOURCES & LINKS
« Reply #5 on: Friday 10 July 09 14:07 UTC (UK) »
Places

Place Names in Co. Louth
Towns & registration districts, Co. Louth

Ardee & Collon Parishes
1907 Blackrock postcard
old Co. Louth pictures
A History of Drogheda (published 1844)
Greenore history
Greenore Hotel
Omeath
Smarmore Castle
Dundalk Barracks

"The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland."
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« Reply #6 on: Friday 10 July 09 14:07 UTC (UK) »
People & Families

Surnames, Haggardstown

Co. Louth Assizes 1775-1810- names, dates, crimes, etc. with links to other convict records
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« Reply #7 on: Friday 10 July 09 14:07 UTC (UK) »
Libraries, Museums & History Groups

Millmount Museum & Martello Tower, Drogheda

Dundalk Reference & Local History Library

Co.Louth Archaeological & Historical Society
Faughart Historical Properties Preservation Society
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« Reply #8 on: Friday 10 July 09 14:08 UTC (UK) »
Schools, Workhouses, Institutions, Occupations

Ballapousta National School

Workhouses- Ardee, Drogheda, Dundalk (left side of page - Workhouse Locations, Irish Poor Law Unions, Louth)
1842 Dundalk Workhouse story about the Montgomery children

St. Joseph's Orphanage, Dundalk mentioned here
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Misc. Information

Co. Louth Genealogical Sources
Co. Louth resources: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fianna/county/louth/lou-1.html
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