Tuesday 4 April 2023

RootsIreland adds more headstone inscriptions from East Galway

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RootsIreland's East Galway database has seen the additions of 2,785 headstone records from the following graveyards:

  • Abbey: 1,078 records
  • Ballinafad: 406 records
  • Ballygar: 714 records
  • Boyounagh: 587 records

These records join an impressive existing collection of headstone inscriptions from more than 20 burial grounds, as well as Roman Catholic church records from 40 parishes, nearly all of which run to 1900+, Church of Ireland registers from 15 parishes (most running to c1900), civil BMDs, census records including the Woodford Census of 1889, and 24,000 census substitute records from lists, directories, the Galway Emigrant Index 1828-1866, and the Productive Loan Index.

See the full line-up of RootsIreland's online records for East Galway by clicking the local centre's logo above, or start searching here.