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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...

Your Ancestral County

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 |

ClareCLARE – 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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