WESTMEATH RESOURCES & LINKS

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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

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Census Records & Census Substitutes

1870s Landowners

1901 and 1911 census

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Church Records & Graveyards

Roman Catholic:
R.C. church records
Church of the Assumption, Delvin
St. Livinus, Killulagh
St. Mary's, Athlone

Ballynacargy church records

Graveyards:  (Internment.Net)

Castleton Churchyard, Finea
Cornamagh Cemetery, Athlone
Killafree Cemetery, Castlepollard
Lickbla Graveyard, Castlepollard
Saint Feichin Churchyard New Cemetery, Fore
Saint Feichin Old Cemetery, Fore
Saint Michael Cemetery, Castlepollard
Turin Cemetery, Mullingar

Memorial Inscriptions for Co. Westmeath on IGP-WEB - link

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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

To find townlands, parishes, etc. in Ireland: www.thecore.com/seanruad
(change default setting from exact match to search for part of a word)

Griffith's Valuation: search by name or place, view original pages and maps: http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml
For an excellent article on the work of Sir Richard Griffith (go to bottom of page, select a Word or PDF version of article)

1777/8 Taylor & Skinner Road Maps of Ireland- "This remarkable and exceptionally rare edition of the first road map of Ireland. The maps were commissioned by the House of Commons in Ireland, and contain 289 pages of maps. The index for these detailed maps shows distances in English and Irish miles. The maps themselves show copious topographical details, like forests, hills, farm land, mills, houses, churches, etc. The large houses also give the owners names."
(note: page says 1877 which is incorrect)

Map of Irish Free State

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Directories
(not all available online)

1820 J. Pigot, Commercial Directory of Ireland
1824 Pigot & Co., City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory
1846 Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland
1856 Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Ireland
1870 Slater's Directory of Ireland
1881 Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Ireland
1894 Slater's Royal Commercial Directory of Ireland

1915 Kelly's Directory of the Leather Trade

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Places

Westmeath Buildings & Places

Athlone links
Moate links
Franciscan Friary, Multyfarnham

"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

Will of Robert Bagnall . Kiltobber
Cooper-Chadwick family tree
Marlay family
Nugent family

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Libraries, Museums & History Groups

Westmeath Libraries

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Schools, Workhouses, Institutions, Occupations

Workhouses- Athlone, Mullingar
(left side of page - Workhouse Locations, Irish Poor Law Unions, Westmeath)

Westmeath Schools
more Westmeath school details
Wilson's Hospital. Multyfarnham