Egan/Lynch

Hi Therese,

Thank you for your message.

Unfortunately, it may be difficult to find information without a more specific place of origin. Most Irish record sources- church records, land records, census records- are based on specific locations. Until you know a specific location within Ireland, preferably a parish or placename, it may be difficult to do anything more with these records.

Do you have any documentation pertaining to the family that mentions any place names in Cork and Clare at all? This can include wills, marriage/death records,census records, letters, diary entries etc.

There are some places where you can search online, however these websites do not have complete collections:

www.familysearch.org has a huge database of genealogical records including some church records for Ireland.

www.rootsireland.ie have a large collection of Irish Church records, however you have to pay to use this site.

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/ have begun a project to upload Irish church records to their site free of charge. However so far only Counties Dublin, Kerry, Carlow and parts of Cork have been covered.

There were 22 Patrick Egan?s recorded in CO. Clare in Griffith?s Valuation. This is a property valuation survey carried out in Ireland 1848-64.

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=31&Submit.y=15&Submit=Submit&familyname=egan&firstname=patrick&baronyname=&countyname=CLARE&unionname=&parishname=

There were 20 Daniel Lynch?s recorded:

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=58&Submit.y=8&Submit=Submit&familyname=lynch&firstname=daniel&baronyname=&countyname=CLARE&unionname=&parishname=

Perhaps if you cross-reference the parishes from the above two links you may be able narrow down some possible parishes.

Some other websites that you may find useful are:

The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/

The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx

Genealogy Links: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/index.html

From Ireland: www.from-ireland.net

Clare Library: http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/genealog.htm

Failte Romhat: www.failteromhat.com

Cork Past and Present: www.corkpastandpresent.ie

Kind regards,

Genealogy Support

Hi Emma

Thank you. You have given me a lot of places to look :)