Archive & Library Resources for Donegal Records
The following Section commenced 26 Apr 2007 (thanks to Stanley!) and forms part of the Donegal Genealogy Resources Website
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Last Updated 10 Aug 2019
Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Dúchas National Folklore Collection of Ireland - The School's Collection (Co Donegal) (folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s)
- Family Research 2016 (created by the National Archives of Ireland to help you find your ancestors online)
Historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths of the General Register Office (free, online, many digitized)
Donegal County Archives Service
Donegal County Library
LDS Family History Centres
Donegal Resources (complete listing including film numbers)
Main Search (Civil Registrations of BMDs, Passengers Lists, Wills, Regional
Library Council (Ask About Ireland)
Grifith's Valuation (complete, searchable, map overlay of historic & modern maps)
Library Ireland
1862 Donegal County Directory (Thom's Almanac and Official Directory)
Irish Local names Explained (P. W. Joyce, LL.D., M.R.I.A.)
On An Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara (1902, full book)
Principal Families of Ulster: Tirconnell (Irish Pedigrees; or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation" by John O'Hart, Fifth Edition, 1892)
Ulster Towns Directory (Belfast and Ulster Towns Directory 1910)
National Archives of Ireland - Website
1824 – 1856 Valuation Office house, field, tenure and quarto books
1841 & 1851 Census Search Forms / Old Age Pension Applications
National Library of Ireland - Website
Catholic Parish Registers (free to view/download)
Photographs Catalogue (view old and new photographs online)
Ordnance Survey Ireland
Historic 6" to Modern Maps (view and searchable online, free)
Presbyterian Church
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland - Website
Deputy Keeper's Reports (Co Donegal References)
Freeholders' Records (Poll book for Donegal 1761 - 75)
Wills Calendars (Proved in Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry from 1858 to c.1900 (plenty for Donegal in the Derry Registry!))
Representative Church Body (Church of Ireland)
Taughboyne Union Church Registers (Baptisms, Marriage, Burials for Taughboyne, Killea, All Saints & Craigadooish - free online)
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