Whether you are Irish by birth, ancestry or desire, it goes without saying that county connections run deep.
Know your "home" county? Here are some handy starting points for you to reconnect from...
A
Antrim | Find your ANTRIM parish |Pre-Famine Antrim |
Armagh | Find your ARMAGH parish | Pre-Famine Armagh |
C
Carlow | Find your CARLOW parish | Pre-Famine Carlow |
Cavan | CAVAN – in focus | Find your CAVAN Parish | Pre-Famine Cavan | Cavan Worldwide |
Clare | CLARE – in focus | Find your CLARE parish | Pre-Famine Clare |
Cork | Cork - in focus | Find your Cork Parish | Pre-Famine Cork |
D
Derry ~ Londonderry | Derry in focus | | Find your Derry Parish |Pre-Famine Derry |
Donegal |DONEGAL – in focus | Find your Donegal parish | Pre-Famine Donegal |
Down | Find your Down parish |Pre-Famine Down |
Dublin | Find your Dublin parish| Pre-Famine Dublin |
F
Fermanagh | | Find your Fermanagh Parish | Pre-Famine Fermanagh
G
GALWAY – in focus | | Find your Galway Parish | Pre-Famine Galway
K
Kerry | Find your Kerry Parish | KERRY in focus|Pre-Famine Kerry
Kildare | Find your Kildare Parish | Pre-Famine Kildare | Kildare Worldwide
Kilkenny | Find your Kilkenny Parish | Pre-Famine Kerry | Kilkenny Worldwide
King's County | Find your Offaly Parish | Pre-Famine King's County now OFFALY
L
Laois | Find your Laois parish | Pre-Famine Laois then Queen's County
LEITRIM – in focus | Find your Leitrim Parish | | Pre-Famine Leitrim
LIMERICK – in focus |Find your Limerick Parish | Pre-Famine Limerick
Longford | LONGFORD - in focus | Find your Longford Parish | Pre-Famine Longford
Louth | Find your Louth Parish | Pre-Famine Louth
M
MAYO - in focus | Find your Mayo parish |Your MAYO parish before the Famine
Meath | Find your Meath parish | Pre-Famine Meath
Monaghan |Find your Monaghan parish |Pre-Famine Monaghan
O
Offaly | Find your Offaly parish |Pre-Famine Offaly then King's County
Q
Queen's County | Pre-Famine Queen's County now LAOIS
R
Roscommon | Find your ROSCOMMON Parish | Roscommon in focus| Pre-Famine Roscommon | Your ROSCOMMON parish before the Famine
S
SLIGO – in focus > Find your SLIGO Parish > Pre-Famine Sligo > From Sligo to Scotland
T
Tipperary | TIPPERARY in focus | Find your Tipperary parish |
Tyrone | Find your Tyrone parish |
W
Waterford | WATERFORD in focus| Find your Waterford parish | Waterford Worldwide
Westmeath | WESTMEATH in focus | Find your Westmeath parish |
Wexford | Find your Wexford parish |
Wicklow | Find your Wicklow parish |
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