SLIGO RESOURCES & LINKS

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Resources and Links in this Section organised by the following catagories:

Census Records
Land Records & Maps
Directories
Places
People & Families
Libraries, Museums & History Groups
Schools, Workhouses, Institutions, Occupations

Irish Genealogical Project- Sligo- lots of links NEW

Sligo Heritage- Joe McGowan's website has information on history, tourism, etc.

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Census Records & substitutes
Census & census substitutes

1649 Census Sligo
http://www.from-ireland.net/1659-census-sligo

1749 Census- index,
transcription
c1833 Tithe Applotment- Easky Parish

c1870 Landowners

1901 Co. Sligo
1901- Catholics only?, households not in order?:
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/censusparishcasteaskykilgkilmackilmor.html

1901 Mercy Convent, Sligo Town

Co. Sligo census records

1901 census

1911 census

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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

Sligo Maps
Sligo Townlands
Sligo civil parishes
Sligo Baronies
1837 O.S. Sligo maps
Griffith's Valuation

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Directories

1824 Pigot's Directory, Connaught
1845 Slater's Commercial Directory
1870 Slater's Directory

1931 Trades Directory- Ballymote, Sligo town

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Places

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage- Sligo

Tubbercurry: www.tubbercurry.ie/history.html

"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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People & Families

Brett family- gravestone inscriptions

Hazelwood House was occupied by the Wynne family for three hundred years, during which time all the head's of the Wynne household, with one exception, bore the name of Owen Wynne. The last Owen Wynne at Hazelwood died in 1910. His daughter Murial and her husband Philip Dudley Percival stayed in the House until 1923. www.sligotown.net/hazelwood.shtml

Thisre's a picture of the House in this link http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=SL&regno=32325001

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Libraries, Museums & History Groups

Sligo County Council: www.sligococo.ie

Co. Sligo Heritage and Genealogy Society- pay per view: http://sligo.brsgenealogy.com
see this thread for comments: www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,802.0.html

Coleman Irish Music Centre: www.colemanirishmusic.com/archive.php

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Schools, Workhouses, Institutions, Occupations

Schools in Co. Sligo (current list)

Stokane National School

Workhouses- Dromore West, Sligo, Tubbercurry
(left side of page - Workhouse Locations, Irish Poor Law Unions, Sligo)

St. Columba's Old Pyschiatric Hospital, Sligo town

updated link: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/

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Misc.

Newspaper- The Sligo Champion

Joe Egan donated information about the Civil Birth Registrations in Castleconnor, Easky, Kilglass & Kilmacshalgan Parish to Brenda Williams website www.puregolduk.com/bren/Civil_births_cekk1.htm

Ships sailing from Sligo in 1803, 1804 and 1805 plus some odds and ends.

1839 Ballygilgan evictions www.sligoheritage.com/archpomano.htm