Irish Genealogy: commercial research sites

• Ancestry:
Main Irish content includes:
• 1766 Diocesan census returns (from the Groves Transcripts in Genealogical Office Mss 536, 537)
• Old age pension application searches (1841/1851 censuses)
• 81% of the Royal Irish Constabulary service records
• Assorted transcripts from Latter-Day Saints microfilm
• Passenger lists
• Irish Family History Foundation
Basic search of church records for:
• Antrim
• Armagh
• Cork (North)
• Cavan
• Down
• Dublin North (County only)
• Dublin South (County only)
• Fermanagh
• Galway (West)
• Galway (East)
• Kildare
• Kilkenny
• Leitrim
• Limerick
• Longford
• Louth
• Mayo
• Roscommon
• Tipperary (North - Killaloe diocese only)
• Tipperary (South - Waterford diocese only)
• Tyrone
• Irish Family Research
Main contents include transcripts of:
• Commercial directories
• Memorials of the Dead (gravestone inscriptions)
• Some Griffith's Valuation (1847-64)
• Yeomanry arms lists
• Vicar's Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1535-1810
• 1876 Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards
• Origins
Main Irish content includes:
• Griffith's Valuation (1847-64)
• Associated Ordnance Survey maps
• Index to heads of household, 1851 census, Dublin city
• Irish Wills Index
• William Smith O'Brien Petition
• Elphin Diocesan census, 1749
• Ulster Historical Foundation
Main contents include:
• Basic search of church records for Antrim and Down
• Gravestone transcripts
• Irish Will Calendars, 1858-1900
• 1803 Agicultural censuses, Antrim and Down
• Northern commercial directories