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Last updated on 7 July 2025
Irish Genealogy News: July 2025
The Republic of Ireland's Central Statistical Office (CS0) has released the latest chapter in its Stories from the Census 1911 series. This explores tenement living across the island. Find out more here.
From 1-16 July, researchers can avail of a 20% discount on 12-month subscriptions to RootsIreland.ie. The database is best known for holding the most extensive collection of church records from across the island and offers transcriptions from the baptisms, marriages and burials registers of many denominations. You can check what's available for each county here.
Thanks to its hard-working team of volunteers, the free-to-access Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives has uploaded not only another tranche of photos and inscriptions from a selection of burial grounds but also a number of useful land record sets, a bundle of Presbyterian marriages and a rare list of the parish poor in the early 19th century:
Headstones
- Dublin: Glasnevin Cemetery, Part 16 - Updated
- Kerry: Cloghane Old Burial Ground
- Limerick: Abbeyfeale Cemetery Part 5
- Wexford: Tomhaggard Graveyard Part 2 (Finished)
Land records
- Clare: Tenants on the O’Brien estate in Newmarket-on-Fergus, 1738
- Galway: Tenants on the Trench estate in Kilconnell Barony, 1840–50
- Offaly: Tenants on the Prittie estate, 1826
- Tipperary: Tenants on the Prittie estate, 1826
- Tipperary: Tenants on the Kingston estate in Ballyporeen, 1840
- Wexford: Tenants on the Ram estate in Gorey, 1826
Other records
Irish Genealogy News: June 2025
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland - PRONI - has introduced a new Catalogue Ordering System in its Search Room. Visitors who have any queries or difficulties with the new system should ask for assistance from staff at the Help Desk.
Ireland's Military Archives has released more tha 2,110 new files from the Military Service Pensions Collection (1916-23). This latest release holds details of 865
individuals/veterans or their dependants with addresses in Cork, Dublin, Kerry,
Limerick, Tipperary, Northern Ireland, England, Jersey, the USA and Canada.
RootsIreland.ie has uploaded almost 9,000 Roman Catholic baptismal and marriage records from South Tipperary. They are as follows:
- 6,393 baptisms, 1834-1905 (Knockavilla RC parish);
- 2,404 marriages, 1834-1905 (Knockavilla RC parish).
To search these records or to see the full menu of South Tipperary sources in the database, go rootsireland.ie/tipperarysouth.
Fold3, the Ancestry-owned specialist military database, is celebrating the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army, with a $2.50 one-month subscription to its Premium Package. This package includes unlimited access to more than 620 million records related to the US, Canadian, UK, Australian/NZ and other military services.
Given the vast numbers of Irish-born men and women who emigrated to North America, Fold3 can be a very rewarding database for Irish family historians and this offer is a great opportunity to check it out.
See Toolkit's Special Offers page for more details.
RootsIreland has added some 70,000 'census substitute' records to its Antrim and Down holding. They're a mixed bundle of 12 distinct record sets and include some lesser-known early materials that many researchers may not have come across before. Here's a summary to whet your appetite:
- Hertford Estate Rent Roll, 1728 (1,329 records)
- Electors of the Borough of Belfast, 1832 (1,685 records)
- Electors of the Borough of Belfast, 1865 (3,508 records)
- Anti-Repeal Declaration, 1848 (2,895 records)
- Index to 1796 Flaxgrowers Bounty List for Antrim and Down (4,187 records)
- Royal Irish Constabulary Registry of Households in Sub-District of Knocknacarry, County Antrim, 1881-1901 (4,522 records)
- Census Of Protestant Householders, 1740 (5,888 records)
- The Ulster Muster Roll, c.1630, Counties Antrim & Down (5,678 records)
- Old Age Pension Proof of Age Extraction Claim Forms 1841, 1851 (4,312 records)
- Census of Bangor parish, 1861 (7,026 records)
- Ulster Directory 1900 (11,716 records)
- 1803 Agricultural Census of Parishes in Antrim and Down (16,525 records).
See RootsIreland's detailed descriptions of these collections here.
During May, Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives uploaded the following materials, all donated by volunteers, to its free database:
Headstones
- CARLOW - St. Patrick's R.C. Graveyard, Newtown Part 2
- CAVAN - Lavey, St. Dympna R.C. Part 1
- KERRY - John Paul II Burial Ground, Listowel Part 4
- WEXFORD - St. Mary's Cemetery, Enniscorthy (Partial) and
- Tomhaggard Old R.C. Graveyard
Church Records
The Registry of Deeds Index Project has updated all three of its free-to-access databases. It brings the number of records in the Main Index to 629,064, transcribed from 64,636 memorials of deeds.
The Townland Index has also grown during May. It now holds 703,835 entries, while the Grantor Index now tots up to 52,757 entries.
My Irish Genealogy News blog was published from April 2011 to July 2024. It proved extremely popular and for many genealogists - ever eager to keep abreast of the latest record releases, events, discounts, book launches and other developments - "Claire Santry's blog" was the day's first online stop.
The decision to close it was difficult but, in the end, pretty much forced upon me due to family and other commitments. Its content will remain online, with no further updates, and will do so for the foreseeable future.
In the meantime, I still have writing commitments to fulfil this year so I need to keep up-to-date with what's going on in Irish genealogy. I'll be keeping notes, and I may as well share them. They'll be brief - very brief - and, unlike my blogposts, these news snippets won't provide details or opinion/comment and they definitely won't be daily!
Please feel free to bookmark this temporary and very-much honed-down version of Irish Genealogy News.
30 August 2024
