WICKLOW RESOURCES & LINKS

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Resources and Links on this thread 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. Wicklow links

  Irish Genealogical Project- Wicklow - lots of links

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Census Records & Census Substitutes

1669 Hearth Money Roll- Arklow    (Broken Link - 9/11/11)

1901 and 1911 census

Census statistics from various years

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Church Records & Graveyards

Various church links

Roman Catholic
R.C. Parish Records
Co. Wicklow baptisms (IFHF/RootsIreland pay-website)
Co. Wicklow marriages (IFHF/RootsIreland pay-website) 

Church of Ireland
Co. Wicklow baptisms (IFHF/RootsIreland pay-website)
Co. Wicklow marriages (IFHF/RootsIreland pay-website) 

Transcripts of Parish Registers of Christ Church, Delgany   (searchable pdf from the RCB Library)

Gravestones
Avoca Old Graveyard
Baltinglass Cemetery
Ballinaton C. of I.- gravestones
Barranisky Cemetery
Davistown Cemetery
Dunlavin Cemetery
Glendalough Seven Churches
Heighinton Burial Ground
Kilranalagh Graveyard
New Kilbride Graveyard
St. Bartholomew's
St. Columbus', Greenane
St. Gabriel's, Arklow
St. Kevin's Churchyard
St. Mary's Arklow
St. Nicholas Cemetery, Dunlavin
Tyneclash Old Cemetery

More Graveyard Links- Holy Rosary (Ashford), Most Holy Redeemer (Bray), Little St. Peter's (Bray), Old Delgany, Derralossary, Old Kilfea, Old Killougter, Kilmacanogue, Kilquade, Powerscourt Desmense, St. Laurence O'Toole (Roundwood), Old Trinity, Old Tornant, St. Joseph's.

Survey on YouTube of the ancient graveyard at Churchtown, Enniskerry : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh7QZfD0XbU

Also a number of Memorial Inscriptions for Co. Wicklow cemeteries 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- (change default setting from exact match to find part of a word)

1837 Lewis' Topographical Dictionary
Griffith's Valuation
Land Registry

Co. Wicklow Baronies and Civil parishes- map
Civil registration districts

1851 Map of Co. Wicklow  (partial)

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Directories

1931- Co. Wicklow information from Thom's directory- census statistics for various years, etc. (not names)
1931 Trades Directory- Arklow, Bray, Greystones

1846 Slater's Directory - includes Wicklow town, Arklow, Blessington, Newtownmountkenneddy / Delgany, Rathdrum, see : Leinster listing

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Places

"The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland."

Conary
Glendalough- genealogy requests
Greystones
Russborough House

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People & Families

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Libraries, Museums & History Groups

Wicklow County Council- with links to Library Service

Blessington History Society NEW 1/11

Wicklow Local Authority Archive  (Wicklow town)  New link May 2011

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Schools, Workhouses, Institutions, Occupations

Kilmacoo School

Workhouses- Baltinglass, Rathdrum, Shillelagh
(left side of page - Workhouse Locations, Irish Poor Law Unions, Wicklow)

1834 Co. Wicklow Officials

Occupations
1910 Co. Wicklow publicans