Irish Websites (National Institute)

The following are useful websites for learning more about Ireland and Irish research, including databases:

1911 census Belfast

Archive CD Books Ireland

Belfast 1901 census index

Census Transcripts and Indexes

Church of Ireland Records

CMC Record Project

Eneclann

General Register Office (Northern Ireland)

General Register Office for Republic of Ireland (GROI)

Griffith’s Valuation transcripts

Ireland’s History in Maps

Irish Ancestral Research Association

Irish Family History Foundation

Irish Family History Society

Irish history texts

Irish Origins

Modern zoomable maps

National Archives of Ireland

National Library of Ireland

PRONI emigration exhibition

Royal Historical Society

Samuel Lewis’s 1839 maps can be viewed free

Surname histories and distribution

The Ireland Genweb Project

Townlands Database

Ulster Historical Foundation

University College of Cork’s database of historical texts

Wills Index 1016-1917

Looking for English wills after 1858

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