The Library holds numerous genealogical sources that can be of help with family research. The list below gives a flavour of what we have available.

This includes, but not exclusively so, material on: general genealogy, family histories, surnames, Griffith’s Valuations (1849-1864), censuses, tithes, gentry, Church of Ireland clergy, 1830s Ordnance Survey maps , parish histories, and local history.

Check our main catalogue for additional resources!

Object ID Title Related people Place Date Subject keywords
Object ID Title Related people Place Date Subject keywords
0853894329 County Down I : Newry and Sout-West Down / Place-Names of Northern Ireland; Volume 1 Toner, Gregory, Author; Mainn ín, M ícheáL B. Ó, Author; Northern Ireland Place-Name Project, Publisher Belfast (UK) 1992 Genealogy; Place-names
0853894337 County Down Ii : the Ards / Place-Names of Northern Ireland; Volume 2 Hughes, A.J., Author; Hannan, R.J., Author; Northern Ireland Place-Name Project, Publisher Belfast (UK) 1992 Genealogy; Place-names
0853894485 County Down III : the Mournes / Place-Names of Northern Ireland; Volume 3 Mainn ín, M ícheáL B. Ó, Author; Northern Ireland Place-Name Project, Publisher Belfast (UK) 1993 Genealogy; Place-names
0853895694 County Antrim : the Baronies of Toome / Place-Names of Northern Ireland; Volume 4 McKay, Pat, Author; Northern Ireland Place-Name Project, Publisher Belfast (UK) 1995 Genealogy; Place-names
0853895716 County Down Iv : North-West Down/Iveagh / Place-Names of Northern Ireland; Volume 6 Muhr, Kay, Author; Northern Ireland Place-Name Project, Publisher Belfast (UK) 1996 Genealogy; Place-names
0853896135 County Derry I : the Moyola Valley / Place-Names of Northern Ireland; Volume 5 Toner, Gregory, Author; Northern Ireland Place-Name Project, Publisher Belfast (UK) 1996 Genealogy; Place-names
0853896658 County Antrim Ii : Ballycastle and North-East Antrim / Place-Names of Northern Ireland; Volume 7 Mac Gabhann, Fiachra, Author; Northern Ireland Place-Name Project, Publisher Belfast (UK) 1997 Genealogy; Place-names
0853898693 Place-Names of Northern Ireland : Volume Eight County Fermanagh I : Lisnaskea and District: the Parish of aghalurcher Ó Muraíle, Nollaig, Editor; Cló Ollscoil Na Banríona, Publisher Belfast (UK) 2004 Genealogy; Place-names
0853898960 A Dictionary of Ulster Place-Names McKay, Patrick, Author; Cló Ollscoil Na Banríona, Publisher Belfast (UK) 2007 Genealogy; Place-names
0856406023 The Book of Ulster Surnames Bell, R.E., Author; Blackstaff Press, Publisher Belfast (UK) 1988 Genealogy; Surnames
0952907100 Agherton Parish, Portstewart a Brief History Thomas, Avril, Author 1996 Genealogy; Parish Histories
0955175100 Inver Parish in History Meehan, Helen, Author Mountcharles (Ireland) 2005 Genealogy; Parish Histories
ARL DPS Drelincourt Infants' Primary School Papers Drelincourt School, Creator Armagh (UK) 1776 - 2009 Genealogy; School records
GF JAF/E1/G157 Sermon written 1942 (?), on History of Keady Parish, given in Keady Gregg, John Allen Fitzgerald, Compiler (1873 - 1961); McEndoo, Thomas James, Author (1863 - 1957 (father-in-law JAF)) [s.l.] 1942 Genealogy; Parish Histories
P000013338 Irish Families : Their Names, Arms and Origins, by Edward MacLysaght ... Illustrated by Myra Maguire ... Edward MacLysaght (Author); Hodges, Figgis & Co. (Publisher) Dublin (Ireland) 1957 Genealogy; Social History
P000151870 More Irish Families. By Edward MacLysaght ... Edward MacLysaght (Author); O'Gorman (Publisher) Galway (Ireland) 1960 Genealogy
P000191945 Burke's Irish Family Records Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd (Editor); Burke's Peerage (Publisher) London (UK) 1976 Genealogy; Ireland
P000239484 Some Anglicised Surnames In Ireland. By Padraig Mac Giolla-Domhnaigh Padraig Mac Giolla-Domhnaigh (Author); Gael Co-Operative Society (Publisher) Dublin (Ireland) 1923 Genealogy
P00024495x Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland by Sir Bernard Burke ... Edited by L.G. Pine ... Bernard Burke, Author; L.G. Pine, Editor; Burke's Peerage, Publisher London 1958 Genealogy, Heraldry*, Ireland, Gentry
P000297476 Supplement to Irish Families. By Edward MacLysaght ... Edward MacLysaght (Author); Helicon (Publisher) Dublin (Ireland) 1964 Genealogy
P000442484 A Guide to Irish Surnames. By Edward MacLysaght ... Edward MacLysaght (Author); Helicon (Publisher) Dublin (Ireland) 1964 Genealogy
P001006300 Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810. Edited by Sir Arthur Vicars, F.S.A., Ulster King of Arms Arthur Vicars (Editor); Edward Ponsonby (Publisher) Dublin (Ireland) 1897 Genealogy
P001107379 Heraldry. Ulster and North American Connections. being the Text of the Inaugural Sir Walter Scott Memorial Lecture Delivered by Conrad Swan, York Herald of Arms on 2nd December, 1968 at Belfast Conrad Swan (Author); Ulster-Scot Historical Foundation (Publisher) Belfast (UK) [1968] Genealogy
P001126462 A Help to English History; containing a Succession of all the Kings of England, the English, Saxons, and the Britons; the Kings and Princes of Wales; the Kings and Lords of Man: and the Isle of Wight. As also of all the Dukes, Marquises, Earls, and Bishops thereof. With the Descriptions of the Places from whence they had their Titles. Together with the Names and Ranks of the Viscounts, Barons, and Baronets, of England. By Peter Heylyn, D.D. Prebendary of Westminster. And since his Death continued, with great Additions, to the first Day of November, 1773. With the Coats of Arms of the Nobility, Peter Heylyn (Author); Charles Bathurst (Bookseller); John and Francis Rivington (Bookseller); John Whiston (Bookseller); Thomas Payne I (Bookseller); Thomas Davies (Bookseller); R. Horsfield (Bookseller); Mileson Hingeston (Bookseller); Richardson & Urquhart (Bookseller); John Almon (Bookseller); John Woodyer (Bookseller); Daniel Prince (Bookseller); G. Frost (Bookseller) London (UK) 1773 England; Genealogy; Nobility; Wales
P001127280 A Short View of the Families of the present English Nobility; their Marriages, Issue, and immediate Ancestors; the Posts of Honour and Profit they hold in the Government; their Arms, Mottos, and Chief Seats. With An index, Specifying the Time of their respective Creations, and Summons to Parliament; the Titles of their Eldest Sons; their Rank, Precedence, &c. By Mr. Salmon. The Second Edition, Enlarged for corrected, so as to exhibit a View of the present State of the Peerage Nathaniel Salmon (Author); William Owen (Publisher) London (UK) 1758 Early works to 1800; Genealogy; Ireland; Nobility