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Local History Research


LOCAL HISTORY SOURCES

 

I have a large number of local history books/tourist guides covering various towns and counties in both Ireland and Great Britain.  So I can also undertake research on famous people, antiquities, townlands, villages, towns and cities, churches, buildings, and folklore etc.  Please contact me if you have any local history research requirements.

Co Armagh

Counties Armagh, Monaghan & Cavan Topographical Dictionary of the Parishes, Villages  and Towns of these counties in the 1830s

Co Carlow

Carlow Town Family Roots

Co Cavan

Counties Armagh, Monaghan & Cavan Topographical Dictionary of the Parishes, Villages  and Towns of these counties in the 1830s

Drumkilly - From Ardkill Mountain to Kilderry Hill - Townlands in the Parishes of Denn and Crosserlough - Info from the 1821 Census and Griffith's Valuation etc.

1821 Census Crosserlough Parish

Dublin City & County

The Heart of Dublin

Monto - Madams, Murder and Black Coddle - The Story behind Dublin's Notorious Red Light District

Dun Laoghaire Genealogical Society - Weavers and Related Trades - Dublin - 1826

Around the Banks of Pimlico

St Catherine's Parish, Dublin - 1840-1900

The Dublin Metropolitan Police - A History

The Dublin Metropolitan Police - A Short History and Genealogical Guide

Dublin Slums - 1800-1925 - A Study in Urban Geography

Dublin - The Fair City

Dublin Tenement Life - An Oral History

Dublin - An Urban Geography

Co Galway

Galway/Ballinasloe Family Roots - Kilcloony & Creagh Parish

Co Leitrim

Kiltoghert Towards The Millenium 

A history of Drumshanbo town

The Connaught Rangers 1793-1922 - A Brief History

North Leitrim in Land League Times 1880-1884

North Leitrim The Land War and the Fall of Parnell

History of Drumsna National (Primary) School and Church of Ireland School

Drumsna National (Primary) School c1921 Photograph; 1928 Photograph; 1940 Photograph; 1949 Photograph; 1954 Photograph - Pupils and teachers

History of Lisduff National (Primary) School

Lisduff National (Primary) School 1930 Girls Photograph; 1930 Boys Photograph; 1927 - Pupils and teachers

Annaduff National (Primary) School Girls c1927 Photograph; July 1990 Photograph

Co Limerick

Adare - A Short Guide to the Village

Rathkeale/Newcastle West Family Roots

Co Longford

Co Longford and Its People - Index to the Co Longford 1901 Census

Co Mayo

The Windings of the Moy - With Skreen and Tireragh

Co Monaghan

Counties Armagh, Monaghan & Cavan Topographical Dictionary of the Parishes, Villages  and Towns of these counties in the 1830s

Co Roscommon

Boyle Volume 1 - The Origins, The Buildings, The Times

Boyle Volume 2 - Its People, Its Times, Past and Present

North Roscommon Its People And Its Past

The Parish of Ardcarne

Mid Connaught

The Connaught Rangers 1793-1922 - A Brief History

Co Roscommon Historical & Archaeological Society Journal 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006

Roscommon & Leitrim Gazette 1822-1887 - A Chronicle of the 19th Century

Roscommon Before the Famine - The Parishes of Kiltoom & Cam 1749-1845

An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of Co Roscommon

Roscommon Artefacts in the National Museum of Ireland

The Kings of King House

Co Sligo

Olde Sligo

In Sligo Long Ago

A Sligo Miscellany

Worthies of Sligo

In the Shadow of Benbulben

At the Foot of Knocknarea - A Chronicle of Coolera in Bygone Days

The Streets of Sligo - Urban Evolution Over The Course of Seven Centuries

Power, Politics and Land - Early Modern Sligo 1568-1688

Killoran and Coolaney - A Local History

The Parishes of Ballisodare and Kilvarnet

Drumcliffe

Inishmurray - Gale, Stone and Fire - Portrait of a Fabled Island

Echoes of a Savage Land

Wood Marin's History of Sligo - Three Volumes

A Hidden Church - The Diocese of Achonry 1689-1818

In Their Own Words - The Famine in North Connaught 1845-1849

Sligo Men in the Great War

Inishcrone and O'Dubhda Country

Ballymote and the Parish of Emlaghfad

Aspects of Geevagh and Highwood

In the Shadow of Carran Hill

Gurteen, Co. Sligo - Its People and Its Past

Sligo Medical Care in the Past

National Schools of Co Sligo

Collooney and Its Environs

Ballindoon Abbey - 1507-2007

Down Memory Line - Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway

Keash & Culfadda

Land of Yeats Desire

The Riverstown Story

The Windings of the Moy - With Skreen and Tireragh

Inishmurray - Ancient Monastic Island

Memory Harbour - The Port of Sligo

Skreen and Dromard - History & Heritage

The Corran Herald 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008

The Sligo Champion Sesquicentenary 1836-1986

Down Gallows Hill - An Illustrated History of Sligo from 1245 to 1995

Vintage Day Riverstown 2002 Brochure

Co Sligo Famine Commemoration 1847-1997

A Living History - Castlebaldwin & Ballyrush

Just Us - True Story - The Connolly Street Kellys

Ballymote - Aspects Through Time

Historical Aspects of Collooney

A Guide to the Carrowkeel/Keshcorrigan Megalithic Complex

The Connaught Rangers 1793-1922 - A Brief History

An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of Co Sligo

The Moytura Record

Co Wicklow

Dun Laoghaire Genealogical Society - Corn Growers, Carriers & Traders 1788/1789/1790

All-Ireland

Church of Ireland Directory 1993, 1997 and 2001 - Diocese, Parishes and Clergy

The Medieval Irish Annals

A History of Medieval Ireland

The Conspiracy of Mellifont, 1216-1231

Tudor and Stuart Ireland

The Penal Laws, 1691-1760

The Irish Parliament in the Eighteenth Century

Old Days Old Ways - An Illustrated Folk History of Ireland

The Irish Faction Fighters of the 19th Century

Ireland Since the Famine

Ireland in the Twentieth Century

Guide to the National and Historic Monuments of Ireland

Great Britain

A History of British Surnames

England

A Dictionary of English Surnames

Old England and Early Britain

Guide to Truro Cathedral

The Old Bailey

Guide to Cornwall

A Pictoral Guide to Historic Plymouth

The History and Treasures of Hatfield House, Hertfordshire

Colchester Castle, A History, Description and Guide

A Guide to Essex Churches

Essex County Standard - Celebrating 175 Years - 1831-2006

Colchester - The Essex County Standard Official Guide

The English Village - History, Physical, Industrial, Administartive, Religious & Human Elements

Local History in England

Scotland

Official Guide to Stirling Castle

Guide to the Western Highlands

Official Guide to Callander

The City of Edinburgh

Pictoral Guide to Perthshire

Wales

Llandudno Great Orme Nature Trail

Penrhyn Castle

The Royal Welch Fusiliers

The Age of Conquest - Wales 1063-1415

A History of Wales

Around Llandudno in Old Photographs

Llandudno - Queen of the Welsh Resorts

Penrhynside - Historical and Social Survey

Penrhynside - Houses and Families Parts 1 and 2

(C) Lorna Peel 2008