Cemeteries

Ruins of Clonmacnois, King's County [Ireland:
scenery, character &c; Volume II; page 192]

Key Resources

Findmypast Ireland - available in the State Library building
Findmypast Ireland has gravestone and memorial transcriptions including those collected by Brian J Cantwell and his son, Ian Cantwell. See entry below for more details.

Brian J Cantwell's memorials of the dead
Brian Cantwell was a prolific transcriber of gravestones and memorials in Ireland. This CD-ROM includes over 24,000 memorials and over 60,000 names.

Brian J Cantwell's memorials of the dead
This website has indexes to Cantwell's memorials including a Graveyard index, Surname index, Placename index and Occupation index.

Old Irish graveyards
This series of books covers the counties of

• Cavan
• Fermanagh
• Leitrim
• Monaghan
• Sligo
  

Other cemetery records available at the State Library

For other cemetery records, try searching our catalogue under keyword using one of the following headings plus the name of the geographic area e.g.cemeteries mayo

• Cemeteries
• Epitaphs
• Inscriptions
• Memorials
  
• Sepulchral monuments
• Tombs

Other online sources

Use our SLWA Family History Bookmarks to find other websites with Irish cemetery information. Try general headings such as ireland-cemeteries or look under more specific areas e.g. northern.ireland-antrim.