Anyone familiar with Irish genealogy knows that John Grenham’ textbook, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors, available exclusively from Genealogical.com in a hardcover Fifth Edition, is the last word on its subject. One outstanding feature of the book is its 250-page chapter on Irish county sources. Mr. Grenham divides each counties coverage, from County Antrim through County Wicklow, into the following six sections: census returns and substitutes, Internet sources, local histories, local journals, gravestone inscriptions, and estate records. The sources for any one county are vast, so if you’ve hit a brick wall in your Irish research, chances are good that this chapter contains some leads you need to follow up on. To illustrate, here is the list of census returns and key online sources for County Kerry, one of the shorter such lists in this enormous chapter. View Book Details
KERRY
Census returns and substitutes
1586 Survey of the estates of the Earl of Desmond recording leaseholders NAI M.5037
1641 Book of Survey and Distribution. NLI Ms. 970
1654 Civil Survey, Vol. 4. Dysert, Killury, Rathroe. Civil Survey, Vol. 4 (NLI 1 6551 Dublin). Online; IMA
1659 Pender’s ‘Census’ 2002. IMC: Online
1799 Petition of 300 prominent Catholics of Co. Kerry. The Dublin Evening Post, 9 June 1799
1809 List of pupils at Tarbert school. NLI Ms. 17935
1821 Some extracts for Tralee and Annagh. NAI Thrift Abstracts
1821 Parish of Kilcummin. Royal Irish Academy McSwiney papers, parcel f, no. 3. LDS film 596419
1823—38 Tithe Books. NAI: Online
1833—41 Voters, NAI OP 184/193
1834—5 Householders, parishes of Dunquin, Dunurlin, Ferriter, Killemlagh, Kilmalkedar, Kilquane, Marhin, Prior. JKAHS, 1974—5. Part online: Ballyferriter
1835 Tralee Voters. JKAHS, No. 19, 1986
1837 Marksmen (i.e. illiterate voters), Tralee. Online: EPPI
1847—51 Assisted passages Castlemaine estate, Kiltallagh parish. AH, Vol. 22, 1960
1852 Griffth’s Valuation. Indexed online: Hayes
1901 Census. Online: NAI
1911 Census. Online: NAI
Online
Askaboutireland www.askaboutireland.ie
Ballyferriter www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ mansfieldballyferriter.html
Cork City Library www.corkpastandpresent.ie
Genweb, Kerry www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/—irlker
Hayes, John www.failteromhat.com
