Place:Ireland

NameIreland
Alt namesIresource: WeRelate abbreviation
TypeCountry
Coordinates53.3°N 7.38°W
Also located inUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland    
See alsoNorthern IrelandIreland divided around 1922
Republic of IrelandIreland divided around 1922
Contained Places
Country
Kingdom of Ireland
County
County Antrim ( - 1922 )
County Armagh ( - 1922 )
County Carlow ( - 1922 )
County Cavan ( 1584 - 1922 )
County Clare ( 1558 - 1922 )
County Cork ( - 1922 )
County Donegal ( 1585 - 1922 )
County Down ( - 1922 )
County Fermanagh ( - 1922 )
County Galway ( - 1922 )
County Kerry ( - 1922 )
County Kildare ( 1296 - 1922 )
County Kilkenny ( 1210 - 1922 )
County Laois ( 1556 - 1922 )
County Leitrim ( 1800 - 1922 )
County Limerick ( - 1922 )
County Londonderry ( - 1922 )
County Longford ( 1586 - 1922 )
County Louth ( - 1922 )
County Mayo ( - 1922 )
County Meath ( 1200 - 1922 )
County Monaghan ( - 1922 )
County Offaly ( 1556 - 1922 )
County Roscommon ( - 1922 )
County Sligo ( 1579 - 1922 )
County Tyrone ( 1300 - 1922 )
County Waterford ( - 1922 )
County Westmeath ( 1541 - 1922 )
County Wexford ( - 1922 )
County Wicklow ( - 1922 )
Dunnygal
North Tipperary ( 1898 - 1922 )
South Tipperary ( 1898 - 1922 )
Former county
Coleraine ( 1585 - 1613 )
County Dublin ( 1190 - 1922 )
County Tipperary ( - 1898 )
Desmond ( - 1606 )
Queen’s County ( 1556 - 1922 )
Modern county
County Tipperary ( - 1898 )
Province
Armagh (ecclesiastical province) ( - 1922 )
Cashel (ecclesiastical province) ( - 1833 )
Connacht ( - 1922 )
Dublin (ecclesiastical province) ( - 1922 )
Leinster ( - 1922 )
Munster ( - 1922 )
Tuam (ecclesiastical province) ( - 1833 )
Ulster ( - 1922 )
Townland
Ballynahowen ( ? - 1922 )
Camas ( - 1922 )
Creeve
source: Family History Library Catalog
Image:Modern Counties of Ireland.jpg


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Ireland ( ;  ; Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth.

Geopolitically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. In 2011, the population of Ireland was about 6.6 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. As of 2016, 4.8 million lived in the Republic of Ireland, and 1.8 million in Northern Ireland.

The geography of Ireland comprises relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain, with several navigable rivers extending inland. Its lush vegetation is a product of its mild but changeable climate which is free of extremes in temperature. Much of Ireland was woodland until the end of the Middle Ages. Today, woodland makes up about 10% of the island, compared with a European average of over 33%, and most of it is non-native conifer plantations. There are twenty-six extant land mammal species native to Ireland.[1] The Irish climate is influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and thus very moderate, and winters are milder than expected for such a northerly area, although summers are cooler than those in continental Europe. Rainfall and cloud cover are abundant.

Gaelic Ireland had emerged by the 1st century AD. The island was Christianised from the 5th century onwards. Following the 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion, England claimed sovereignty. However, English rule did not extend over the whole island until the 16th–17th century Tudor conquest, which led to colonisation by settlers from Britain. In the 1690s, a system of Protestant English rule was designed to materially disadvantage the Catholic majority and Protestant dissenters, and was extended during the 18th century. With the Acts of Union in 1801, Ireland became a part of the United Kingdom. A war of independence in the early 20th century was followed by the partition of the island, thus creating the Irish Free State, which became increasingly sovereign over the following decades, and Northern Ireland, which remained a part of the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland saw much civil unrest from the late 1960s until the 1990s. This subsided following the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. In 1973, the Republic of Ireland joined the European Economic Community while the United Kingdom, and Northern Ireland, as part of it, did the same. In 2020, the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland included, left what was by then the European Union (EU).

Irish culture has had a significant influence on other cultures, especially in the field of literature. Alongside mainstream Western culture, a strong indigenous culture exists, as expressed through Gaelic games, Irish music, Irish language, and Irish dance. The island's culture shares many features with that of Great Britain, including the English language, and sports such as association football, rugby, horse racing, golf, and boxing.

How places in Ireland are organized

Ireland was divided into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland around 1922. The standard at WeRelate is to title Irish place pages according to their current country. Please see Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland for more information.

All places in Ireland

Research Tips

  • When using RootsIreland.ie to search for birth information, it is important to distinguish between the church baptismal records and the civil birth registration records. Parents were required to report a birth within twenty-one days or face a fine. If they missed the twenty-one day cut-off, they would often adjust the reported birthdate so that it fell within the twenty-one day period. The baptismal record should be considered the more accurate one.
  • Another issue is the fact that Catholic baptismal records were written in Latin, with the Latin form of the name. So one should be aware of all possible English forms. For example, 'Owen' and 'Eugene' are both English equivalents of the Latin 'Eugenius'.
  • Ancestry's "Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911" has to be used with care. As an example, the abstract for Peter Kilcommons (b. 7 February 1868) states that he was born and baptized in Williamstown, County Galway. Neither of these facts is correct. His birth was merely registered in Williamstown. Information on this site should be checked against the information on the RootsIreland site.
  • The Irish Genealogy News blog reports that GRO Ireland has placed historical civil registers of birth, marriage and death on the free state-run IrishGenealogy.ie. The are some omissions of images and an embargo period. Read the details at Irish Genealogy News (as of 7 Sep 2016)
  • Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS). The marriage database was the first established, in 2014, with an initial 40,000 names. Since then the Society has launched two corresponding additional databases, one for births and another for deaths. All three have been regularly updated, with the latest bringing the total record count, collectively, to a quarter of a million names. More information at Genealogical Research Society (as of Jan 2017)
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