Latest Irish additions to FamilySearch

The following additions to Irish records collections have been made this week on FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org):

Ireland, Ashe's Limerick and Clare Directory, 1891-1892 (11,559 records added)
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/3736264
The Directory of the City of Limerick & County Clare, 1891-1892, was published by H. & E. Ashe and is one of the few directories for Limerick City and County Clare that was published before the end of the 19th Century. The directory includes a brief history of the city, business listings, and an extensive street directory of the city's residents. All the major towns and villages in Limerick are covered, with details of the professionals, large farmers, traders, merchants, and gentlemen. This collection was provided in coordination with FindMyPast.

Ireland, T. George H. Green, Index to the Marriage License Bonds of the Diocese of Cloyne, 1630-1800; 1899-1900 (15,316 records added)
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/3736257
This collection is an index of marriage license bonds for Counties Cork and Ross created by Herbert Webb Gillman from 1896-1898. It was later added to by Thomas George Hennis Green until the Public Record Office in Dublin was destroyed in 1922. This publication is the only surviving index for these records. This collection was provided in coordination with FindMyPast.

Northern Ireland, Tithe Applotment Books, 1822-1837 (496 records added)
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2729531
Tithe Applotment books for Northern Ireland are something of land survey taken by Church of Ireland in order to determine the value of land and possible corresponding tithe. The records span 1822-1837 and were originally filmed at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast. These records are beneficial to researchers because they are somewhat like a pre-famine census.

Comment: Someone is a bit geographically confused, because although the majority of records in the Northern Irish tithes records set are from what is now Northern ireland, I'm getting returns from Cork, Mayo and Donegal in the mix! Confusingly, one of the search boxes is for birthplace - ignore that (it's meaningless), use the Any box to input place.

This is only an index, and there is no actual valuation information, but the Northern Irish returns are available through the catalogue on PRONI (see https://britishgenes.blogspot.com/2019/11/proni-uploads-digitised-ni-tithe-books.html) and those for the south at http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp.

For further releases on FamilySearch this week (including significant updates to Isle of Wight and Lincolnshire parish records in England) visit https://media.familysearch.org/new-free-historical-records-on-familysearch-week-of-27-april-2020/.

Chris

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