Category Archives: Irish History

Duplicate Place names, Detached Parishes and Half Baronies

Posted on 23 November 2024 by Shane

(published March 2015, updated Dec 2022, Nov 2024) There are a number of complications to finding exactly where a particular place of interest is located, even when the name is known. The first is often the spelling which can vary … Continue reading →

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Catholic Parishes and Chapels in Dublin city – 1818

Posted on 25 July 2023 by Shane

Extract from “History of the City of Dublin from the earliest accounts to the present time” by the late J. Warburton (Deputy keeper of records in Birmingham tower)the late Rev. J. Whitelaw M.R.I.A., vicar of St. Catherine’sand the Rev. Robert … Continue reading →

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Introduction ‘Guide to the County of Wicklow’ Rev. G.N. Wright 1822

Posted on 1 April 2021 by Shane

by the Rev G.N. Wright, illustrated after the designs of George Petrie esq., printed for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, Pasternoster Row, London 1822 see page images and index to contents below – and also the map from this guide The county … Continue reading →

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Show list of all towns in Registration District (or P.L.U.)

Posted on 24 February 2016 by Shane

The new townland explorer may be used to show a list of all the town within any Superintendents Registrar’s District, more usually referred to as Registration Districts. Civil records are indexed by Registration districts and these appear in the original National GRO … Continue reading →

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Milners’ Safes Advert – 1917

Posted on 14 December 2015 by Shane

from Thom’s 1917, advertisement for Milners’ Safes with testimonials from Hamilton Long, Apothecary & Chemists, J. Gaynor & Son Merchants and mention of a safe retrieved with contents intact from the ruins of the G.P.O. (see transcript below) Milners’ Safes … Continue reading →

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