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A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland, Second Edition

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Now in an updated second edition, genealogy research expert Brian Mitchell's A New Genealogical Atlas Of Ireland is a very straightforward, accessible reference, presenting maps of each Irish county. Each county has five maps: one depicting the Church of Ireland parishes, one showing the baronies and Church of Ireland dioceses, one of the poor law unions and parishes included within probate districts, one of Roman Catholic parishes and dioceses, and a fifth set of maps for the nine counties of Northern Ireland shows Presbyterian congregations. Since civil registration for everyone in Ireland didn't begin until 1864, A New Genealogical Atlas Of Ireland is an extremely useful reference for tracing ancestors who lived prior to 1864. An invaluable contribution to genealogical reference and resource materials.

This book is just what it is called: an atlas. It does not give advice or information about irish history, genealogy, or anything of the sort (which is what I had mistakenly hoped for). It is a very, very detailed atlas of the counties, parishes, and every other conceivable subdivision of the land of Ireland over the last 200 years. It could be a valuable resource for anyone who has their genealogical research within Ireland already. If you are like me, and have traced the family to the boat ride but no further, this will not help you quite yet.

Thank you still to the author for the extensive research that must have gone into this!

Very easy to read maps, great helper when your trying to figure out Baronies, Poor Unions and Parishes for anyone whether starting or revisiting their Irish genealogy projects.

This book doesn't give me all the answers I needed, but it has been a trememdous help in getting closer to finding my Irish Ancestors. Worth adding to my bookshelf.

This book is one of the most important tools for researching in ireland as it gives a break down of the boundaries for Counties, Parishes, and Poor law unions which are a must to understand how Eire is set out. Also a great way to find Townlands/place names in your research.

This is the best book yet for research in Ireland. Ireland is not an easy place to research but the book really helps.

This book contains nothing except outlines of maps, then inside maps are various sections with numbers on them. A list follows indexing the map number to a place. Not what I thought it would be ... but will most likely prove worth the heft price for a small paperback at some point.

This publication perfectly fills my need as a tool to visually orient myself with Ireland's complicated system of local area boundaries. Invaluable when sorting through parishes, townlands, poor law unions and baronies.

I am very disappointed in this "book". I suppose I should have researched it and the publisher, but it has nothing in it that is not freely available online. Even the paper and print quality is not very well done or worth the price. Buyer Beware.