County Galway Surname List

Compiled by quibellg@labyrinth.net.au

Page last updated: Thursday, 14 May 2009- 3,147 entries

Welcome to the County Galway Surname List. These Surnames are currently being researched in the Galway area on the West Coast of the Republic of Ireland. These surnames are listed with their researchers' e-mail or postal addresses to assist in making connections with researchers with similar interests.

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Entries added since the last update :

DONNELLAN, DOOLEY, KIRKWOOD, REA, SCARRY



Adding, changing or deleting your Galway Surname interests:

The area covered by this surname list is the County of Galway (GAL) in the Province of Connaught. The geographical location of Galway is shown on the GENUKI Ireland Administrative Regions map.

To make entries or for changes/deletions to the County Galway Surname list, please e-mail details to quibellg@labyrinth.net.au

In your e-mail subject line, please type Galway Surname Listing as this prevents your e-mail from being trashed by one of my "spam" filters. County Galway Surname listings should include information preferably in the following format:

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If you have several different Galway surnames it is advisable to submit a separate entry for each. It is advisable to list the different spelling variations that have been used for your particular surname.

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Note: The surnames list is usually updated once at least once a month and this page shows the date last updated together with the surname's added. You will also receive a confirmation e-mail that your changes (additions, changes, and deletion's) have been made. If you haven't received a confirmation e-mail and this page has been updated, please feel free to contact me again as in these day's of large volumes of "junk" e-mail, it is possible that valid e-mail's may have been accidentally deleted.

If you having persistent problems with spam e-mail I would recommend using something like MailWasher to bounce the e-mail's back to the spammers e-mail address. Any e-mails you bounce back get their senders details put on the blacklist for easy removal if they come back. You can even set it to automatically bounce and delete blacklisted e-mails, or whole domains off the server. MailWasher can use external blacklists such as ORDB, Spam Cop, VISI or you can specify your own.

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A few Galway related genealogy links (Hopefully not too much out of date!).....

The 1901 census web site has the complete 1901 census for Co. Roscommon, Co. Leitrim, Co. Mayo and Co. Sligo. http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/1901census/census.shtml now has 20% of the records for Co. Galway. The records available are all for East Galway. The following parishes are complete: Drumatemple, Killian, Taghboy, Killoscobe, Kilconnell, Kilgerrill, Killeroran, Killosolan, Fohanagh and Ahascragh. A number of other parishes are partially complete. In addition, the records for Ballinasloe town are included. More records will be added in the coming months.

The National Archives of Ireland has arranged for the digitisation, indexing and contextualisation of its most popular records, the census records for 1901 and 1911. The resulting website will contain images of the forms for each household and institution, which will be indexed by name (all names), townland/street, age and sex. There will also be illustrated information on what life was like in Ireland in the early days of the last century. The site will be free to access, with no charge to use the indexes or view the images. The first phase of the project, Dublin City and County 1911 is to be launched in Autumn 2007. http://www.nationalarchives.ie/contactus/census.html

The Galway County Council now has the 1842 ordnance survey maps online

Galway Public Library Island House Cathedral Square Galway Ireland

James Hardiman Library, National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland

Ireland’s Historical Mapping Archive

Galway Emigrant Index 1828 - 1855 - Immigration from Galway to Australia, New South Wales & Queensland.

A database of advertisements for Irish immigrants published in the Boston Pilot

British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1801-1922 are in the process of being digitized - has a few Galway entries.

www.maineirish.com (90% of Portland, Maine's West End Irish population was/is Galway Irish)

Carrowmoreknock and surroundings - Carrowmoreknock is about 12 Irish miles from Galway and six from Oughterard.

The Turloughmore History Project is a project based in Lackagh, Turloughmore, Co. Galway, which is presently researching the local history of the parish of Lackagh/Turloughmore. More information is available about the Lackagh area on the Moytura site.

Connaught Rangers - Peter Power-Hynes, info@connaughtrangers.com has a recreational interest is in collecting memorabilia connected with the Connaught Rangers, the 88th Foot (and later also embracing the 94th Foot). He researches the men whose medals he has and holds a large archive of documentation of every description. Much of this collection came originally from Regimental sources. He is always looking for new sources of information and memorabilia. Peter is willing to supply information (if he has it) from time to time to any interested party. www.Connaughtrangers.com

Roman Catholic Parish maps - Galway East and Galway West

Genealogy in Galway in the West of Ireland (Irish Family History Foundation) There are two designated family research centres serving County Galway which is located in the West of Ireland, in the Province of Connacht. The West Galway Family History Society provides a Full Service for genealogical enquirers for the western half of County Galway. The East Galway Family History Society provides a Full Service for genealogical enquirers for the eastern half of County Galway from their centre at Woodford.

Joint web site of the National Archives of Ireland and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Civil registration - Birth, Marriage and Death registration

The General Register Office (Oifig an Árd Chláraitheo) - Fee schedule

Genealogical Society of Ireland

National Library of Ireland

Irish Genealogy (A paid research group based in Ireland - IrishGen Ltd, 5 Prospect Avenue, Glasnevin, Dublin 9.)

Language & Translation Center English-Irish Dictionary

List of County Galway Parish names

From Ireland County Galway site

Galway County World Gen Web Project - This Ireland World Gen Web Project site has many interesting Galway/Ireland links as well as a section on Galway County Ireland Queries for those who wish to post a surname or related query message. There is also a section for County Galway lookups. County Galway Surname Roster

County Galway, Ireland Genealogy Links & Chat

Other days - A commercial site by a former contributor to the Galway local.ie site.

Richard J. O'Donnell 's - Galway

Galway Directories for 1824, 1846 and a few other transcripts

IrelandGenWeb Passenger Lists Also, Irish Genealogical Society, Int'l (IGSI) - Passenger List of Ship Clarence from Port of Galway, 19 May 1846

The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG), one of the several hosted volunteer projects at RootsWeb, announces the addition of maritime news articles excerpted from Irish newspapers, dating from 1700-1912. These articles have been contributed primarily to ISTG by Dennis Ahern, with some contributions by Cathy Joynt Labath and Alison Causton. The names of ships and surnames mentioned in the articles are indexed.

Additional maritime newspaper articles, dating from the 1700s to 1940 and listed by year, ship name, or article subject.

Colleen Gilligan's - Irish Genealogy of Connacht Clans

FIANNA Study Group - Surname Research Guide: Galway

Local Names Ireland - A noticeboard/forum for people sharing information about their Irish family names.

Go Ireland Genealogy Site - A general surname search site useful for variations of surnames, history and locations.

Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives

Irish Surname origins

The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA) See also TIARA's Irish Heritage Centre Customer Satisfaction Survey

Doras Directory - Irish Family Surname search. Learning Gaelic - The Gaelic Homepage

http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/translation/

Ireland history in maps Mapquest - Online map tool useful for locating major cities and towns.

A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland

Expedia Maps (County Galway)

Maps of County Galway

County maps from Samuel Lewis 1837 (Also has explanations of placenames from P.W. Joyce's 'Origin and History of placenames, 1869-1870'.)

Transcriptions from Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837 (Has descriptions of places, with history etc.)

On-line Irish photo gallery (has a few photo's, backgrounds, etc of Galway) Irish photography

Online phone numbers for Ireland

Irish directory/People finder

IRLGEN Genealogical Guide to Ireland Information sources also available for all the counties of Connaught or just the county of Galway

IrishGenealogy.com - Has a valuable definitions section about Irish subdivisions (County, Barony, Townland, etc.) as well as a lot of other interesting information.

BIFHS-USA

National University of Ireland, Galway (James Hardiman Library) - Including Special Collections that consist of Books, Manuscripts , Newspapers, etc. The Manuscript Collection consists of hand-written and unique textual material held by the Library. Among the most important collections are: Galway's Civic Records or The Corporation Manuscripts, 1485 - 1818; 1836 - 1922. The Eyre Deeds, a collection of legal records relating to Galway 1720 - 1857. The Hyde Mss Collection, containing volumes of prose, poetry and various tracts penned by scribes from the 18th century and including miscellaneous manuscripts of Douglas Hyde.

James Hardiman's History of Galway James Hardiman's History of Galway Map

The Illustrated London News, 25th June 1842 - The Galway Starvation Riots

12th August 1843 - Ireland and the Irish

Galway Books - A few books or Journals I have come across in my research...more to be added shortly.

Parish History Book List website

Old Ireland - Historical site with some good pictures. Includes history of Connacht province

The Galway Advertiser newspaper. Galway Online Abstracts from Ireland Old News

Ordnance Survey Parish List from the National Archives of Ireland - List of Parishes and Reference Numbers

The Irish State web-site Irish History on the Web

Irish Times -Irish Ancestors Placename Search Engine; also a good section on Trade Directories

University of Texas (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection) - Ireland

Irish History on the Web The myth of the Black Irish: Spanish syntagonism and prethetical salvation

Castle Lambert, Athenry Ireland

Kenny's Bookshop, Galway

County Galway rural development

Clydagh is a rural area south-west of Headford town in Co. Galway on on the north-eastern shore of Lough Corrib.

Loughrea Chamber of Commerce website - Includes a section on the heritage and history of Loughrea

Shrule is on the Mayo side of the Mayo-Galway border about 25km from Galway city

Tuam (Tuam is situated approximately 20 miles from Galway City). Also includes a section on the history of Tuam

Tuam family histories

Woodford Parish, Co. Galway, Baptismal Records - Register Of Baptisms In Woodford/Looscaune Parish (Roman Catholic) 21 April 1865 - Sep 1889


A few mailing lists.......

Galway mailing list. To subscribe in digest mode just send the command "subscribe" to the following email address: IRL-GALWAY-request@rootsweb.com

Aran Islands in County Galway. To subscribe in digest mode just send the command "subscribe" to the following email address: IRL-ARAN-ISLANDS-request@rootsweb.com

A broader mailing list is the Ireland mailing list. To subscribe in digest mode, send a message to IRELAND-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command "subscribe" and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use subscribe in the subject, too.

Irish-American list for all those who have Irish ancestors who emigrated to the US. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Ethnic-Irish/IRISH-AMERICAN.html

Another broad-based list is the Shamrock mailing list. To subscribe in digest mode, send a message to SHAMROCK-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command "subscribe" and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use subscribe in the subject, too.

Another broad-based list that recently started is run by Jane Lyons http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ireland_Genealogy (Full instructions available on this page.)


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