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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Sligo => Topic started by: aghadowey on Saturday 13 June 09 21:32 BST (UK)
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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 (http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/sligo/index.htm)- lots of links NEW
Sligo Heritage (http://www.sligoheritage.com/index.htm)- Joe McGowan's website has information on history, tourism, etc.
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Census Records & substitutes
Census & census substitutes (http://www.nireland.com/genealogy/census.html)
1649 Census Sligo
http://www.from-ireland.net/1659-census-sligo (http://www.from-ireland.net/1659-census-sligo)
1749 Census- index (http://www.rootschat.com/links/06hg),
transcription (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/censussligo1749open.html?cj=1&o_xid=0001231185&o_lid=0001231185)
c1833 Tithe Applotment- Easky Parish (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/tithe1.html)
c1870 Landowners (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/landowners.html)
1901 Co. Sligo (http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/1901census/census.shtml)
1901- Catholics only?, households not in order?:
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/censusparishcasteaskykilgkilmackilmor.html
1901 Mercy Convent, Sligo Town (http://www.from-ireland.net/censabstracts/nuns/01/sligomercynuns.htm)
Co. Sligo census records (http://www.censusfinder.com/irish-census-records5.htm)
1901 census (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie)
1911 census (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/)
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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 (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/mapopen.html)
Sligo Townlands (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/sligotownlands.html)
Sligo civil parishes (http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/civilparish/index.cfm?fuseaction=GetMap&CityCounty=Sligo)
Sligo Baronies (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/baroniessligo.html)
1837 O.S. Sligo maps (http://www.sligococo.ie/library/maps/1837/index/index.htm)
Griffith's Valuation (http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/)
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Directories
1824 Pigot's Directory, Connaught (http://www.failteromhat.com/pigotc.htm)
1845 Slater's Commercial Directory (http://htp://www.failteromhat.com/slaterc.htm)
1870 Slater's Directory (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/slaters3.html)
1931 Trades Directory- Ballymote (http://www.from-ireland.net/sligo/direct/bmote.htm), Sligo town (http://www.from-ireland.net/sligo/direct/sligo.htm)
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Places
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage- Sligo (http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=highlights&county=SL&hid=59)
Tubbercurry: www.tubbercurry.ie/history.html
"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."
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People & Families
Brett family- gravestone inscriptions (http://www3.sympatico.ca/wfmcgee/Brett/1800s_Land/Cemetery_Inscriptions.html)
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®no=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 (http://www.eirscoil.net/?county=Co.%20Sligo&ubmit=Submit) (current list)
Stokane National School (http://homepage.eircom.net/~stokanens/#history)
Workhouses (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/)- Dromore West, Sligo, Tubbercurry
(left side of page - Workhouse Locations, Irish Poor Law Unions, Sligo)
St. Columba's Old Pyschiatric Hospital, Sligo town (http://www.sligozone.net/StColumbas/StColumbas.htm)
updated link: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/
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Misc.
Newspaper- The Sligo Champion (http://www.sligochampion.ie)
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 (http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlsli/shipshesli.html) in 1803, 1804 and 1805 plus some odds and ends.
1839 Ballygilgan evictions www.sligoheritage.com/archpomano.htm