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Geography Index - St. Cronan's school. If you want to check out mountains and rivers in Ireland. Some of the links on this page do require that you are a student in St. Cronan's, but then some do not

Irish Population Density Map - on the web site of St. Cronan's school, Bray, Co. Wicklow

Past Homes
19th Century Irish map collection online.

Dublin Genealogy

I don't like 'pure' genealogy per se, that is, the putting of names on a family tree, instead I like to know about the people, how they lived and the places they lived in. There are lots of people who are not like me, who do like to know just the names and where they came from. The pages linked to below are pretty much to do with pure genealogy (but a little bit of the other thrown in!).

To my mind, the Lewis Topographical Dictionary is one of the most valuable and ignored tools for genealogists or family historians because it gives us alternative names and spellings of parish names, also, most importantly it names the religious parishes which cover any civil parish. I find that people generally do not understand the Civil Registration Districts and the fact that a district can cover townlands in different counties. If anyone (myself included before I got to know all this) thinks of Celbridge, they immediately think of County Kildare - they'd never think of it having anything to co with County Dublin and genealogical research in County Dublin.

There is more to do with Dublin Genealogy on the History & people tables

Lewis Topographical Dictionary Dublin Co Index. (Parishes, towns, villages)

Dublin Co. Civil Registration Districts

Dublin Gravestones

Parish record extracts/Indices : Baldoyle - St. Andrews - St. Audoen - St. Thomas surnames- Kelly extracts

1901 Census Index: South City No. 2

Dublin City Assembly Rolls, 1716

1931 directories : Balbriggan

County Dublin, history, geography, genealogy, people

Every time I have seen someone ask if anyone knows anything about education or emigration on any of the mail lists I have been subscribed to I always think of the 1931 descriptions of the counties in Ireland which I have on line. At the end of every county description there are tables listing the figures for emigration from the county, education in the county, whether or not the people speak Irish, and a breakdown of the religious denominations in the county taken from various census returns from 1821 through 1926. So, these descriptions are of historical and genealogical importance.

The Diocescan listings were one of the first sets of pages I created for this web site, because sometime way back then I had read that when a man qualified as a priest he was usually put back into his own parish, originally I had considered these tables of importance because they told us the names of the Roman Catholic parishes in a Diocese in 1836 (which sometimes changed over the years) and they also told us the name of the closest post town - this never changed. So, to me, these lists help if I am looking for a Roman Catholic parish which no longer exists. I find the name of the closest post town to where-ever it is I am loking for information about and then I find the records which co exist for that area, regardless of the name.

Lists such as the 1832 Military list, the Revenue Officers, the Admiralty Examinations, the General Synod, the Presbyterian Synod - these can apply to any county - they are of genealogical & historical value.