New Historic Directories of Ireland Database

Coolnabacky1873

Hi everyone,

Shanew and I have created a database of links that will allow you to access 550+ entries for Irish directories. All kinds: free, ones you have to pay for access, scanned, transcribed, ebooks, the works.

Hopefully it will be useful for genealogists and historians alike.

http://www.swilson.info/dirdb.php

L1011

Never knew about the directories on the PRONI website - nice to see some physical evidence of something long believed in the family.

Waitsian

Coolnabacky1873 wrote: »

Shanew and I have created a database of links that will allow you to access 550+ entries for Irish directories.

Outstanding work.

Thank you both so very much. Much appreciated.

L1011

The phone directory for 1913 you have linked in under Dublin also has a few regional areas available but they only seem to link it off the last page: http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/1913PhoneList13.htm

pinkypinky

Fantastic work, guys.

pedroeibar1

Superb. Wonderful asset. Many thanks.
(You do realise that you have hugely eroded Boardies' free time, most of which will now be spent clicking on the links you have thoughtfully provided!)

shanew

MYOB wrote: »

The phone directory for 1913 you have linked in under Dublin also has a few regional areas available but they only seem to link it off the last page: http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/1913PhoneList13.htm

thanks - I was wondering about that, some of the pages I looked through seemed to be just public phones, so skipped past them. A closer look shows many more exchanges in towns, some with only a handful of subscribers e.g Limavady, Magherafelt, Skerries, Navan, Youghal etc

I'll update those links and add a few new county entries

L1011

I don't see the huge collection of part-scanned Thoms that SDCC has on the Dublin list; might want to specify that its South Dublin only though: http://source.southdublinlibraries.ie/simple-search?query=thoms&submit=Go . Goes as late as the 50s.

shanew

MYOB wrote: »

I don't see the huge collection of part-scanned Thoms that SDCC has on the Dublin list; might want to specify that its South Dublin only though: http://source.southdublinlibraries.ie/simple-search?query=thoms&submit=Go . Goes as late as the 50s.

many thanks, will check those, had forgotten about them..might list the towns/areas in the description e.g. for 1881 : Clondalkin, Lucan, Palmerstown, Rathcoole, Rathfarnham, Tallaght and Templeogue

Coolnabacky1873

Yeah, if anyone finds anymore let us know and we can add them. Thanks for all the goodwill too!

shanew

first few from South Dublin Libraries are up, at least one from each decade.... link, plus one of my own for 1848 I'd forgotten about

Coolnabacky1873

Almost 650 now! Ploughing through them.