Sources For Cork
Local History
Census
and Census Substitutes
(Abbreviations: NAI - National Archives Ireland, NLI - National Library
Ireland, MS - Manuscript, JCHAS-Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological
Society, )
1641 Survey of houses in Cork city, Quit Rent Office Papers NAI
1641 Book of Survey and Distribution NLI MS 966-967
1654 Civil Survey volume 6, parishes of Aghabulloge, Aghina,
Aglish, Ballinaboy, Ballyvourney, Carnaway, Carrigrohanbeg, Clondrohid,
Currykippane, Desertmore, Donoughmore, Drishane, Garrycloyne, Granagh,
Inchigeelagh, Inniscarra, Kilbonane, Kilcolman, Kilcorney, Kilmihil, Kilmurry,
Kilnamartyra, Knockavilly, Mocloneigh, Macroom, Matehy, Moviddy, Templemichael,
Whitechurch .
1662 - 1667 Subsidy Rolls, extracts from baronies of Condons
and Clangibbons NAI M.4968
1700 - 1752 Freemen of Cork city NAI M.4693
1753 St. Nicholas parish householders, Church of Ireland registers
1756 - 1827 Biographical notices from Cork newspapers NLI MS
19,172 - 19,175
1757 List of able bodied male protestants from the parishes of
Brigown, Castletown Roche, Clonmeen, Farrihy, Glanworth, Kilshannig, Marshallstown,
Roskeen, (An Anglo-Irish Miscellany, M.D. Jephson, 1964)
1766 Religious census for parishes of Aghabullog,Aghada, Ardagh
and Clonpriest, Ballyhea, Carrigdownane, Castlelyons, Castlemartyr, Castletown
Roche, Churchtown, Clenor, Clondrohid, Clondullane, Clonfert, Clonmee,
Clonmult and Kilmahon, Cloyne and Ballintemple, Coole, Farrihy, Garrycloyne,
Glanworth, Ightermurragh, Imphrick, Inniscarra and Matehy, Kildorrery,
Killogrohanebeg, Kilnamartyra, Kilshannaig, Kilworth and Macroney, Knockmourne
and Ballynoe, Lisgoold and Ballykeary, Litter, Macroom, Magourney and Kilcolman,
Mallow, Marshalstown, Middleton, Mourne Abbey, Nathlash and Carrigdownane,
Ruskeen and Kilcummy, Templemolaga, Shandrum, Whitechurch and Grenagh,
Youghal NA1A 41 67. Rathbarry, Ringrone NA 1A 46 49. Dunbulloge JCHAS Vol.51.
Kilmichael JCHAS Vol.26.
1783 Freemen and freeholders who voted in the city of Cork election,
NL P 2054
1793 Householders in the parish od St. Anne's Shandon JCHAS Vol.
47 , 87-111
1814 Jurors, Co. Cork, Grove White Abstracts, NA M2637
1817 Freemen Cork city NL P722
1820s/30s Tithe books
1830 House owners St. Mary's Shandon JCHAS Vol. 49
1830-37 Registered householders in Cork city NL Report from committee,
Parliamentary
Papers 1837/38 Vol 13 (2), 554-557
1832-37 Voters in Cork city NL reports from Parliamentary
Papers 1837/38 Vol. 13 (1) 320/321
1834-37 Valuation of houses over £5 at Bandonbridge, Kinsale,
Youghal NL Report from committee Parliamentary Papers 1837
Vol. II (1) Appendix G
1834 Protestant parishioners in Ballymodan, Bandon NL MS 675
1834 Protestant families in Magourney NA M5118
1837 Illiterate voters in Bandonbridge, Kinsale Youghal, NL Report
from committee Parliamentary Papers 1837 Vol. II (1) Appendix A
1837 Cork city parishes list of wasre and poor NL Report from
committee Parliamentary Papers 1837/38 Vol. 13 (1) 324-334
1842 Voters list for Cork West Riding NA 1842/26 and Cork East
Riding NA 1842/23
1843-50 List of Christmas and Easter dues with names of parishioners
and children for Ballyclough NL Pos 5717
1851 Census for parishes of Kilcrumper (partial), Kilworth, Leitrim
(partial), Macrony (partial) NA m4685
1851/53 Griffith Valuation NA
1901 Census NAI
1911 Census NAI
Directories
1787 Richard Lucas,
Cork Directory, reprinted JCHAS 1967
1788 Richard Lucas, General directory of the Kingdom of Ireland
1797 John Nixon, Cork Almanack
1809 Holden's Triennal Directory
1810 William West, Directory of Cork
1812 John Connor, Cork Directory
1817 John Connor, Cork Directory
1820 J. Pigot, Commercial Directory of Ireland
1824 Pigot & Co., City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial
Directory
1826 John Connor, Cork Directory
1828 John Connor, Cork Directory
1846 Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland
1856 Slater's Royal National Directory of Ireland
1870 Slater's Directory of Ireland
1875 Francis Guy, Directory of the County and City of Cork
1881 Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Ireland
1886 Francis Guy, Postal Directory of Munster
1889 Francis Guy, City and County Cork Almanack and Directory
(issued annually from this date)
1894 Slater's Royal Commercial Directory of Ireland
Newspapers
| Title |
Other Titles |
Publication Dates |
Place of Publication |
| Cork Constitution |
Cork Morning Post (pre 1873) |
1823 - 1924 |
Cork |
| Cork Advertiser |
Constitution (post 1823) |
1799 - 1824 |
Cork |
| Cork Examiner |
Irish Examiner |
1841 - current |
Cork |
| Cork Herald |
Cork Daily Herald (post1860) |
1856 - 1901 |
Cork |
| Hibernian Chronicle |
Cork Mercantile Chronicle |
1769 - 1818 |
Cork |
| Munster Advertiser |
none |
1839 - 1841 |
Cork |
| Peoples Press & Cork Weekly Register |
none |
1834 - 1836 |
Cork |
| Skibbereen & West Carbery Eagle |
none |
1857 - 1929 |
Skibbereen |
| Southern Reporter |
Irish Daily & Southern Reporter (post 1871) |
1807 - 1873 |
Cork |
| Southern Star |
none |
1864 - current |
Skibbereen |
Books
Deasy, Liam, Towards Ireland Free, Mercier Press, Cork 1973
Grenham, John, Tracing your Irish Ancestors, Gill & Macmillan,
Dublin 1992
O'Mahony, Colman, In the Shadows, Life in Cork 1750-1930, Tower
Books, Cork 1997.
Pochin Mould, Daphne D.C., Discovering Cork, Brandon, Dingle
1991.
Ryan, James G. Irish Records, Sources for family and local history,
Ancestry, USA 1997
Journals
Cork Historical and Archaeological Society Journal
Bandon Historical Journal
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