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County of Galway and Poor Law Union of Clifden. General List of Jurors

County of Galway and Poor Law Union of Clifden. General List of Jurors

December 10, 2018 × 0 comments

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Cancelled Land Books for Errismore and Ballyconneely districts for the period 1872-1891.

Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill

December 8, 2018 × 0 comments

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Register of Dail Electors, Local Government Electors and Seanad Electors, and lists of General and Special Jurors for the year 1927-28, Clifden

Register of Dail Electors, Local Government Electors and Seanad Electors, and lists of General and Special Jurors for the year 1927-28, Clifden

Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill I am grateful to John Stanley for bringing this register to light and for allowing us publicise it. :

December 3, 2018 × 1 comment

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The 1918 Register of Electors for the Unit of Clifden and the Unit of Derrylea

The 1918 Register of Electors for the Unit of Clifden and the Unit of Derrylea

Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill The 1918 Register of Electors for Clifden town and forty-seven surrounding townlands is reproduced here by kind permission of John Stanley of Market St, Clifden. The register gives the names of those eligible to vote in general and local elections, it also gives their townland of residence and […]

December 3, 2018 × 0 comments

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Local Townlands- Online Resources

Roger Harrison / Forum Connemara

August 14, 2018 × 0 comments

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Clifden Men in the British Navy

Clifden Men in the British Navy

Clifden Rules the Waves: The story of Clifden men in the greatest Navy on earth (1872-1922) By Steven Dolan  The expansion of the British Empire in the nineteenth century owed as much to the dominance of the Royal Navy, as to perhaps any other military or indeed political factor. The […]

February 10, 2015 × 3 comments

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Tracing Your Roots in North-West Connemara

Tracing Your Roots in North-West Connemara

This resource is intended to serve as a repository of sources, and a guide to those who wish to trace their family history in the region. Sources vary from easily accessible online records, to more specialized local sources and national archival resources. Genealogical research is becoming easier and more popular […]

January 30, 2014 × 67 comments

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Genealogical sources at the National Archives of Ireland

Summary of Lecture given by Gregory O’Connor at Clifden bicentennial festival, 31 May 2012 The lecture aimed to give the audience an appreciation of the wide variety of records held by the National Archives containing genealogical information. The great loss of Irish genealogical records sustained by the burning of the […]

August 29, 2012 × 6 comments