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OFFALY (KINGS) RESOURCES & LINKS
« 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
  Irish Genealogical Project- Offaly- lots of links NEW

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Re: OFFALY (KINGS) RESOURCES & LINKS
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 12 July 09 22:46 BST (UK) »
Census Records & Census Substitutes

Co. Offaly records

1766 Religious Census- Ballycommon civil parish

1901 census NOW ONLINE 3/6/2010

1911 census NOW ONLINE
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« Reply #2 on: Sunday 12 July 09 22:47 BST (UK) »
Church Records & Graveyards

Church of Ireland:
Dunkerrin C. of I.

Roman Catholic:
R.C. Parish records
St. Brigid's, Mount Bolus

Brackanagh
Kilmachonna

Memorial Inscriptions for Co. Offaly on IGP-WEB - link
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« Reply #3 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. in Ireland- (change default setting from exact match to find part of a word)

1837 Lewis' Topographical Doctionary

Griffith's Valuation

Co. Offaly towns and registration districts

Land Registry: www.landregistry.ie/eng
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Places

Civil registration districts

"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

Notes on the emigration scheme from Kilconcouse, Kinnitty 1847-52

Cash family
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Libraries, Museums & History Groups

Offaly County Library

Edenderry Historical Society
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Schools, Workhouses, Institutions, Occupations

Workhouses- Edenderry, Parsonstown, Tullamore
(left side of page - Workhouse Locations, Irish Poor Law Unions, Offaly)
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