Thursday, 9 March 2023

Tuck in to RootsIreland's glorious smorgasbord of Limerick records

RootsIreland has served up a mixed feast of more than 36,000 church records, gravestone inscriptions, will indexes, lists of freeholders, electoral registers, 18th-century lists of Catholic and Protestant heads of households, all for County Limerick.

And that's not all. There's more for dessert, as you'll see from the list below.

  • Heads of Catholic and Protestant households in various County Limerick parishes (Tuogh, Clonkeen, Nantinan, Clonagh, Rathkeale, Kilscannell, Croagh and Doondonnell) in 1766 (352 records)
  • Abbeyfeale RC baptisms 1901-1915 (1719 records)
  • Abbeyfeale RC marriages 1901-1915 (340 records)
  • Adare RC marriages 1901-June 1902 (7 records)
  • Ardagh RC baptisms 1901-1915 (609 records)
  • Ardagh RC marriages 1901-1915 (175 records)
  • Ballybricken RC baptisms 1901-1911 (199 records)
  • Ballybricken RC marriages 1901-1911 (50 records)
  • Bruff RC baptisms 1901-1915 (786 records)
  • Bruff RC marriages 1901-1915 (155 records)
  • Croom RC baptisms 1901-1915 (545 records)
  • Croom RC marriages 1901-1915 (200 records)
  • Donaghmore RC baptisms 1901-1915 (408 records)
  • Donaghmore RC marriages 1901-1915 (84 records)
  • Kilcolman & Coolcappa RC baptisms 1901-1915 (522 records)
  • Kilcolman & Coolcappa RC marriages 1901-1915 (109 records)
  • Shanagolden RC baptisms 1900-1915 (716 records)
  • Shanagolden RC marriages 1900-1915 (199 records)
  • Gravestone inscriptions St. John’s Church of Ireland (288 records)
  • Gravestone inscriptions St. Munchin’s Church of Ireland I (1378 records)
  • Gravestone inscriptions St. Molua’s, Ardagh (898 records)
  • Gravestone inscriptions Ardkilmartin, Kilmallock (190 records)
  • Index to wills of those with addresses in Limerick from Sir Arthur Vicars, Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland 1536-1810 (Dublin, 1897) (1117 records)
  • “List of Freeholders who voted in the 1760 Election in Limerick” by Noel Murphy in North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 52, (2012) taken from ‘The Freeholders of Limerick who voted in the 1760 Election with Place of Abode and Freehold Address. Monday 27th April. Thomas Vokes and Eaton Maunsell, Sheriffs’ (National Library of Ireland, MS 16092) (773 records)
  • Index to Limerick people referenced in “Information Wanted” Ads in the Irish-American, 1850-1871 from DeGrazia, Laura Murphy & Haberstroh, Diane Fitzpatrick, Irish Relatives and Friends (909 records)
  • The Burgess Roll of Burgesses of the City of Limerick of Persons Entitled to Vote at municipal elections between the 25th November 1896 and 24th November 1897 (556 records)
  • Return of National School teachers referencing Limerick as where educated or where teaching in 1905 (625 records)
  • Limerick’s evicted tenants from A List of Persons who have lodged applications with the Estates Commissioners as Evicted Tenants or as the Representatives of Evicted Tenants, and who have been noted as suitable for Holdings published by the Estates Commissioners Office in 1907 (181 records)
  • Owners of vehicles registered in county Limerick from The Irish Motor Directory and Motor Annual 1911-12 (107 records)
  • Owners of vehicles registered in county Limerick from The Irish Motor Directory and Motor Annual 1912-13 (112 records)
  • Owners of vehicles registered in county Limerick from The Irish Motor Directory and Motor Annual 1913-14 (310 records)
  • Owners of vehicles registered in county Limerick from The Irish Motor Directory and Motor Annual 1914-15 (263 records)
  • Index to Limerick’s World War I casualties (1070 records)
  • 1925-1926 Register of Electors for Limerick (19,729 records)

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