Irish Databases

• Irish Freeholders, Freemen, and Voting Registers (1234-1978) - It's Here!
  
  Search this inventory for the availability and location of records for the county, town or city of your ancestors, which is compiled from more than a dozen different resources.
  
  Search the Irish Freeholders Database now.
  
  Inventories records from the Armagh County Museum, Genealogical Office, National Library of Ireland, National Archives of Ireland, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, University College Galway's James Hardiman Library, the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and some repositories in England.
  
  Voters, Poll, Freemen and Freeholders Records are lists of individuals entitled to vote, or actually voting at elections. They are usually arranged on a county, city or borough basis. Freeholders were substantial farmers of the Irish counties who had the right to vote based on the type of tenure by which they held their land and the value of the land. Freemen or free citizens of cities and boroughs had votes in the elections of those cities and boroughs. In cities, freeholders who qualified through their land as well as freemen who qualified through their trade voted in elections, but usually borough elections only involved freemen.
  
  Read more about the records in Kyle J. Betit's Article "Irish Freeholders, Freemen and Voting Registers," reprinted from The Irish At Home and Abroad journal. 
• Church of Ireland Parish Registers and Vestry Minutes at the RCBL in Dublin - 
  
  The Representative Church Body Library (RCBL) is the official repository for Church of Ireland records in the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland. An inventory of the parish registers (of baptism, marriage and burial) and the parish vestry minutes preserved at the RCBL is hosted here with permission of the library.
  
  The inventory is searchable by county and parish.
  
  Read more about Irish Church Records in this informative article.