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Other Kildare Sources

For a more detailed list of Co. Kildare sources, including many offline sources, please see Tracing Your Kildare Ancestors, by Karel Kiely, Mario Corrigan and James Durney, Flyleaf Press or contact Kildare Genealogy.

Tithe Applotment Books 1824-1835

Griffith’s Primary Valuation 1850-1852 but if you are having difficulty locating an ancestor there is also an index for Kildare searchable at RootsIreland

1901 Census and if you are having difficulty locating an ancestor there is also an index for Kildare searchable at RootsIreland

Gravestone Inscriptions:

Transcribed gravestone inscriptions are held by Kildare Genealogy, contact us for details.

Voters Register 1835 – 1839 Qualifying Freeholders and Leaseholders

Slater’s Directory 1846

Townlands of County Kildare

Kavanagh’s Bibliography

Index to the Kildare Archaeological Journal

Groses’s Antiquities

1798 Rebellion

Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary 1837

The Great Famine in Co. Kildare

Thom’s Directories 1849 and 1854

Slaters Directory of 1881

Gordon Bennett Race 1903

World War 1 in County Kildare

 

Newspapers

The major newspapers relevant for those researching in Co. Kildare are the Leinster Express, the Kildare Observer, the Leinster Leader and the Nationalist and Leinster Times (Carlow and Kildare editions).

The Leinster Express dates from 1831.  In the absence of a Co. Kildare specific newspaper in the 1830s and 1840s, it is a useful source for those interested in the impact of the famine and emigration in the Kildare, Carlow and Laois areas.

The Kildare Observer can be accessed online at http://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/olive/apa/KCL.Edu/ or there is also a direct link from Ehistory and the KLAS website and it can be found by most search engines. It is searchable by date, phrase, name and place.  Articles can be downloaded and printed out.

KCRS has a partial index of the Leinster Leader newspaper.  This is not available on open access. Staff can search the years of the paper that are indexed on request.  For years that have not been indexed researchers will need to search microfilmed copies of the newspapers either in KCRS, Newbridge Library or the NLI.

The major locations for copies of Irish newspapers are the National Library of Ireland and the British Library in Colindale in London.

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