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Laois
(Leix) or Queen's County, Ireland
There
are over 2000 pages on this web site, created over the last six years,
new pages are added constantly. It is not possible to link all these
pages to any one section of the site. Please use the search
engines provided to see if there are any other pages of interest
to you on this site, or elsewhere on the internet.
The
advertisements you see on this web site may be off-putting but they
are necessary. The From Ireland web site is privately owned, and everything
has to be paid for - web site maintenance, photocopying, travelling
to the archives, driving to graveyards etc. The web site is 'Google
monetised' this means that Google 'sponsors' the web site through advertsing.
The advertisments on this web site have never yet covered the cost of
running the site in any month, e.g. for Laois there are 2828 BMD refernences
from the civil registers every 200 references have cost about 5 Euro;
the names of 12,000+ Heads of Household for the County Laois 1901 census
have been transcribed (not all on the web site yet), and 15,865 names
from the Griffiths Primary Valuation. Every page of the Griffiths was
photocopied in order to transcribe the information, a photocopy card
costs 2 Euro in the National Archives in Dublin giving you 8 copies
and I have not summed up the number of photocopies. The same with the
Tithe Applotment Books. It took one year to complete transcription of
the 1901 census, albeit only 5-10 hours each week, it took three solid
months of all day every day to drive around the county transcribing
gravestones back in 1998-99, some of the tapes have not yet been typed
up. Today, as I drive from place to place with a camera I see that many
of the stones I could read back then cannot be read today.
Of
all the counties on this web site, the Laois pages are the best for
any person seeking their family history, I have so much more information
that I have not put on this web site, estate records, parish records,
full transcriptions of graveyards. In the last month, my county Laois
pages have gone from being in the lowest set of pages visited on this
web site to one of the highest ranking sets, and in that month about
five people have visited my sponsors.
Laois
Genealogy
- Laois (History & people etc)
Paintings
by Lydia Lynagh
Laois Artist
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 Athy, they immediately think of
County Kildare, Urlingford = Kilkenny and Roscrea = Tipperary. they'd
never think of any of these places having anything to do with County
Laois and genealogical research in County Laois. My version of the
Griffiths Primary Valuation differs from that which you find in
the Griffiths CD in that I list the names of the people who were
the 'Immediate Occupiers' and how many times a persons name is listed
as having land in any townland adn I have almost every civil parish
covered, the same goes for the Laois 1901 census Heads of Household
listings - I have brought the list for almost every parish on line.
There
is more to do with Laois or Queen's Co. Genealogy on the History &
people tables
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County
Laois or Queen's Co., 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 same can be said for the extracts
from the "History of the Queen's Co."
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.
Discovery
series Map No. 54.
Laois, Offaly, Tipperary. (parts of Co. Laois covered: Arderin
- Ballyfin - Camross - Castletown - Clonaslee - Clonenagh - Coolnacarrick
- Kilvahin - Mountmellick - Mountrath - Portlaoise - Raheen - Rosenallis
- Slieve Bloom Mountains - Straboe)
Discovery
series Map No. 55: Offaly, Laois, Kildare, Wicklow. (parts of Co.
Laois covered: Ballyadams - Ballyadding - Ballybrittas - Curraclone
- Emo - Inchacooly - Killenard - Kilmurry - Lea - Maryborough Heath
- Moyanna - Portarlington - Raheenbarna - Stradbally - Timahoe (town)
- Vicarstown)
Discovery
series Map No. 60: Kilkenny, Laois, Tipperary: (parts of Co. Laois
covered: Abbeyleix - Aghaboe - Aghmacart - Ballacolla - Ballinakill
- Ballyroan - Borris in Ossory - Castlefleming -Clogh - Cullahill -
Donaghmore - Durrow - Grantstown - Rathdowney)
Discovery
series Map No. 61 Carlow,
Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Wicklow
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Saunders
Newsletter & Daily Advertiser 1816
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