KILDARE 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

1901 Census- Monasterevan

1901 and 1911 census

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Church Records & Graveyards

Roman Catholic:
Allan Parish records (extracts)
History of Maynooth
Maynooth baptisms 1857-1860 (partial)

Quakers:
Quakers in Athy

Links to Co. Kildare gravestones

Curragh Military Cemetery
Curragh Military Cemetery site for WWI deaths NEW

Memorial Inscriptions for Co. Kildare Cemeteries on IGP here

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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/index2.htm#Property
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townland
http://www.ancestryireland.com/?post_type=library-books&s=townlands&submit=Search

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

1837 Lewis' Topographical Dictionary

Griffith's Valuation

Land Registry

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Directories

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

1931 Trades Directory- Athy, Kilcullen, Kildare, Naas, Newbridge

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Places

Athy
Ballitore
Belan House, Moone, Co. Kildare
Celbridge links
Clane
Curragh history website
Grey Abbey Conservation Project
Leixlip
Monasterevin

Leixlip Chronology 1836-1849
http://www.kildare.ie/library/ehistory/2007/10/leixlip_chronology_18361849.asp

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People & Families

The Fitzgeralds of Kildare
Moore family
Medlicotts of Dunmurry, Kildare
The Wolfs of Kildare
Some 1944 landowners mentioned in newspaper article in Leinster Leader

 

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Libraries, Museums & History Groups

Co. Kildare History Groups- Allen/Carbury, Athy, Ballymore Eustace, Caragh, Clane, Celbridge, Curragh, Donadea, Kilcock, Kilcullen, Kildare, Kill, Maynooth, Monasterevin, Naas, Newbridge, Rathcoffey, Timahoe

List of newspapers held at Kildare County Library

Kildare County Library- local history resources

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Schools, Workhouses, Institutions, Occupations

Ballitore School List 1726-1836
Curragh Boys Nationald School records
St. Patrick's College, Maynooth- also here

Workhouses- Athy, Celbridge, Naas
(left side of page - Workhouse Locations, Irish Poor Law Unions, Kildare)

Curragh Camp Regiments
Kildare men at Trafalgar
Kildare soldiers killed or injuried in World War I