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Title: OFFALY (KINGS) RESOURCES & LINKS
Post by: aghadowey on Sunday 12 July 09 22:46 BST (UK)
Resources and Links in this Section organised by the following categories:

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

  Co. Offaly resources (http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/counties/leinster/index_of.htm)
  Irish Genealogical Project- Offaly (http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/offaly/index.htm)- lots of links NEW

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Title: Re: OFFALY (KINGS) RESOURCES & LINKS
Post by: aghadowey on Sunday 12 July 09 22:46 BST (UK)
Census Records & Census Substitutes

Co. Offaly records (http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/counties/leinster/offaly1.htm)

1766 Religious Census (http://www.from-ireland.net/off/1766ballycommon.htm)- Ballycommon civil parish

1901 census (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie) NOW ONLINE 3/6/2010

1911 census (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/) NOW ONLINE
Title: Re: OFFALY (KINGS) RESOURCES & LINKS
Post by: aghadowey on Sunday 12 July 09 22:47 BST (UK)
Church Records & Graveyards

Church of Ireland:
Dunkerrin C. of I. (http://janesirishplace.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DCF7B856F14D9024!1010.entry)

Roman Catholic:
R.C. Parish records (http://www.from-ireland.net/off/offalyrcindex.htm)
St. Brigid's, Mount Bolus (http://homepage.eircom.net/~killoughey/)

Brackanagh (http://janesirishplace.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DCF7B856F14D9024!780.entry)
Kilmachonna (http://www.from-ireland.net/off/graves/kilmachonnaoffaly.htm)

Memorial Inscriptions for Co. Offaly on IGP-WEB - link (http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/offaly/photos/tombstones/markers.htm)
Title: Re: OFFALY (KINGS) RESOURCES & LINKS
Post by: aghadowey on Sunday 12 July 09 22:47 BST (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.  (http://www.thecore.com/seanruad)in Ireland- (change default setting from exact match to find part of a word)

1837 Lewis' Topographical Doctionary (http://www.from-ireland.net/off/lewis/offalyindex.htm)

Griffith's Valuation (http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/)

Co. Offaly towns and registration districts (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,380295.0.html)

Land Registry: www.landregistry.ie/eng
Title: Re: OFFALY (KINGS) RESOURCES & LINKS
Post by: aghadowey on Sunday 12 July 09 22:47 BST (UK)
Directories

1824 Pigot's Directory (http://www.failteromhat.com/pigot.php)
1846 Slater's Commercial Directory (http://www.failteromhat.com/slater.php)
 
King's Co. Directory - 1890 (https://dcms.lds.org/view/action/ieViewer.do?dps_pid=IE111789&dps_dvs=1358543200645~690&dps_pid=IE111789&change_lng=en)  (link from lbud)

1931 Trades Directories- Birr (http://www.from-ireland.net/off/direct/birr.htm), Edenderry (http://www.from-ireland.net/off/direct/edenderry.htm), Tullamore (http://www.from-ireland.net/off/direct/tmore.htm)
Title: Re: OFFALY (KINGS) RESOURCES & LINKS
Post by: aghadowey on Sunday 12 July 09 22:48 BST (UK)
Places

Civil registration districts (http://www.from-ireland.net/off/civ.htm)

"The Geograph British Isles project (http://www.geograph.org.uk) aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland."
Title: Re: OFFALY (KINGS) RESOURCES & LINKS
Post by: aghadowey on Sunday 12 July 09 22:49 BST (UK)
People & Families

Notes on the emigration scheme (http://www.offalyhistory.com/articles/188/1/Kinnitty---Notes-on-the-emigration-scheme-from-Kilconcouse-Kinnitty-1847-52/Page1.html) from Kilconcouse, Kinnitty 1847-52

Cash family (http://billcash.home.mindspring.com/index.html)
Title: Re: OFFALY (KINGS) RESOURCES & LINKS
Post by: aghadowey on Sunday 12 July 09 22:49 BST (UK)
Libraries, Museums & History Groups

Offaly County Library (http://www.offaly.ie/eng/Services/Libraries/)

Edenderry Historical Society (http://www.edenderryhistory.org/)
Title: Re: OFFALY (KINGS) RESOURCES & LINKS
Post by: aghadowey on Sunday 12 July 09 22:50 BST (UK)
Schools, Workhouses, Institutions, Occupations

Workhouses (http://www.workhouses.org.uk/)- Edenderry, Parsonstown, Tullamore
(left side of page - Workhouse Locations, Irish Poor Law Unions, Offaly)
Title: Re: OFFALY (KINGS) RESOURCES & LINKS
Post by: aghadowey on Monday 15 February 10 09:51 GMT (UK)
Misc.

Offaly War Dead (http://www.offalyindependent.ie/news/roundup/articles/2010/02/12/3994807-offalys-world-war-one-war-dead/)