Census Substitutes for Co. Kildare including trade directories and voters’ lists now online
Commercial and trade directories are an invaluable source of information for family history research for the late eighteenth to the twentieth century in Ireland. They list professional services, gentry, police, clergy, public officials, and military personnel, and often include outlying areas and smaller towns, offering a snapshot of commercial, private, and administrative life. Provincial and
Recent Articles
1921 Curragh Internment Camp Autograph Book of Tom Smyth, Grangebeg, Gilltown, Co. Kildare
The Clongownian
The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is open for applications
One Village, Three Schools
Launch of two new volumes of local history
The Allen Mass Rock
Launch of Special Powers: Civil War Internment at Newbridge Barracks and Tintown Camp
Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography including photographs of Co. Kildare available online
Burial Grounds
Genealogical Resources
Kildare County Archives & Local Studies
Kildare County Archives holds the records of local government, along with some private papers and manuscript material relating to County Kildare. Kildare Local Studies holds an extensive collection of books, periodicals, maps, photographs and newspapers relating to the history and heritage of County Kildare, as well as Irish archaeology, history and heritage.
Online Resources
Archives
Grand Jury
Poor Law Unions
Kildare County Council Minutes
Naas Urban District Council Minutes
Burial Grounds
Local Studies
Kildare Observer Newspaper (1880-1935)
Journals of the County Kildare Archaeological Society (1891-2006)
Resources Available at County Archives
Find My Past
British Newspaper Archive
Resources Available in Library Branches
Irish Newspaper Archive
Radical Newspapers Archive