Irish Source Records, 1500s-1800s

This data set is made up of the images of the pages of nine titles originally published by the Genealogical Publishing Company. Approximately 190,000 individuals are referenced within this unique collection of Irish census, land, marriage and probate records.

This collection of books is especially valuable since the majority of Ireland's collection of original wills and census records were destroyed in a 1922 fire at the Public Records Office in Dublin. Much of the information compiled in this data set was thought to be lost in the fire. For example, although nearly all of Ireland's pre-1901 census records were destroyed, here you'll find extensively researched reconstructions of the 1841 and 1851 censuses as well as transcriptions of the surviving 1851 census fragments for County Cork. In addition, you'll find record of wills that were abstracted or copied before the fire.

Within the great variety of records collected here, you'll find:

• Names of family members
• Dates and details of vital events
• Location of residence (including townland, parish, and county)

Books Included in this Data Set

A Guide to Copies and Abstracts of Irish Wills
Rev. Wallace Clare

Quaker Records, Dublin, Abstracts of Wills
P. Beryl Eustace, and Olive C. Goodbody

Irish Marriages
Henry Farrar

Return of Owners of Land in Ireland 1876

County Cork, Ireland, a Collection of 1851 Census Records
Josephine Masterson

Ireland: 1841/1851 Census Abstracts (Northern Ireland)
Josephine Masterson

Ireland: 1841/1851 Census Abstracts (Republic of Ireland)
Josephine Masterson

Indexes to Irish Wills, Five Volumes
William P. W. Phillimore and Gertrude Thrift, eds.

Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland 1536-1810
Sir Arthur Vicars

Copyright information for each volume can be found on its copyright page. If you wish to cite information found in one of this data set's volumes, we recommend using the following format:
Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Book Title." Place of Publication: Publisher. Copyright Date. Page Numbers. Reproduced on Genealogy.com's Online Data Set #275 (Irish Source Records, 1500s-1800s).

For example, if you find information about John Smith on page 47 of "Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland 1536-1810," you'd want to cite that information in the following manner:
Vicars, Sir Arthur. "Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland 1536- 1810." Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., (1897), 1997. Page 47. Reproduced on Genealogy.com's Online Data Set #275 (Irish Source Records, 1500s-1800s).