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Co. Cork, Ireland.

"What matters not is what their religion was, but that they came from Ireland" © Dr. Jane Lyons 2001-2009

 

 

 

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A Taste Of West Cork

Family Names of County Cork

Father Browne's Cork: Photographs, 1912-54

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Cork: A Pocket Guide

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From Ireland Home Page >>County Cork page >>

Cork County, IRELAND

Cork Genealogy - Cork (History & people etc)

 

Google Groups: Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly Ireland Genealogy A new group that I set up recently. It's only got one member - me, but then again, once upon a time Y-IRL the Yahoo group which I created back in 2001 had only a few members and today, it's one of the largest Irish Genealogy groups on the internet

Yahoo Group : Ireland Genealogy (Y-IRL) A group set up by me in 2001 and currently with over 1700 members

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.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.

 

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

 

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

Cork County Civil Registration Districts

County Cork Gravestones

Griffiths Primary Valuation : Abbeymahon - Ballyfeard
1931 directories : Cobh - Cork City by Occupation: A - B - C
Munster Volunteer Registry, 1782 - Admirality Examinations

 

Irish Genealogy Research Service (fee based)

 

England Top Databases Ireland Top Databases Scotland Top Databases

 

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County Cork, 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.
The Malone Family Directory - Malone Family web site hosted by Joe Malone
The Great Hibernian Central Junction Railway Military Index, 1832

 

 

R.C. Diocese of Kerry, 1836
Saunders Newsletter & Daily Advertiser 1816
 
RTE Online Radio Telefis Eireann  

 

 

 

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