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Mary Casteleyn

• Burke’s Colonial Gentry. 2 vols. 1895
• A Great Sacrifice: Cork Servicemen who died in the Great War, edited by White and O’Shea, Cork. 2010.
• Forgotten Heroes: Galway Soldiers of the Great War 1914-1918 by William Henry, Cork 2007.
• The Carlow War Dead: a history of the casualties of the Great War. Burnell.2011
• The Tipperary War Dead: a history of the casualties of the First World War. Burnell. 2008
• The Waterford War Dead: a history of the casualties of the Great War. Burnell. 2010.
• The Irish Dames of Ypres. Rev Dom Patrick Nolan. 1908.
• The Irish Nuns at Ypres: an episode of the War. By D.M.C. 1915.
• Biographical notices from the Provincial Newspapers of Ennis, Limerick, Clonmel and Waterford 1758-1821, compiled by Rosemary ffolliott
• Biographical notices from the Cork Newspapers 1754-1827, compiled by Rosemary ffollliott

Peter. R.B. Davies

• Piggott’s 1824 Provincial Directory of Ireland
• Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, plus maps, 1837.
• Index of Townlands, Parishes and Baronies, 1851
• An Irish Alamanac of Notable Events in Ireland from 1014-1993
• The Land and the People of 19th century Cork. James Donnelly. 1975.
• The Parish of Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. Rev Patrick Egan. 1960 (1994 reprint)
• Hardiman’s History of Galway. 1820.
• The Pooles of Mayfield. Rosemary ffolliott. Dublin. 1958.
• Seventy years young: memories of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall. 1991.

David Hope

• Register of the Cathedral of St Patrick, Dublin 1677-1869
• Register of the Parish of St Nicholas, Galway 1792-1840
• The History of the Church of Ireland 1691-2001. Alan Acheson.
• The Clergy of Dublin and Glendalough. 1899-1951. Canon Leslie (Church of Ireland).
• A table of the Church of Ireland Parochial Records held at The Representative Church Body Library, Braemor, Dublin.
• Soupers and Jumpers – the Protestant Missions in Connemara 1848-1937. Miriam Moffitt.
• Landowners in Ireland 1876. Return of the owners of land of one acre and upwards.
• Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Fourth Series. Vol 111.
• The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry. 2 vols. John O’Hart.
• Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland 1536-1810. Compiled by Arthur Vicars. 1897.
• Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Vol 1. Ireland. 1978. Compiled by Mark Bence-Jones,
• The Twilight of the Ascendancy. Mark Bence-Jones. (Landowning families towards the end of the 19th century). London. 1987.
• The Houses of Ireland. Brian de Breffny and Rosemary ffolliott. 1975.
• The Vanishing Houses of Ireland. Randall MacDonell. 2002.
• The Noble Dwellings of Ireland. John Fitzmaurice Mills. 1987.
• The Landed Gentry and Aristocracy of Co Meath. Vol 1. Art Kavanagh. 2005.
• The Landed Gentry and Aristocracy of Co. Wicklow. Vol 1. Turtle Bunbury. 2005.
• The Tipperary Gentry. Vol 1. William Hayes and Art Kavanagh. 2003.
• Memorials of the Dead. Vol 1 Counties Galway and Mayo (Western Seaboard). Ian Cantwell.
• Alumni Dublinenses. Burtchaell and Sadlier. 1924.
• Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Vols 1-55. 1900=2003.
• Journal of the Butler Society. Vol 2. No 2.
• Recusant History (Journal of Research in Reformation and Post Catholic History in the British Isles). Vol 25 No 4 2001.
• Index to Irish Marriages 1771-1821. Henry Farrar
• The Guinness Family Tree. Compiled by Henry Seymour Guinness and Brian Guinness. Arranged by M. Galway. 1953.
• St Anne’s: the story of a Guinness Estate. Joan Ussher Sharkey. 2002.
• History of the O’Maddens of Hy-Many. Gerard Madden. 2004.
• For God or King: history of Mountshannon, Co Clare, Edited by Gerard Madden. 1993.
• Beyond the Twelve Bens: a history of Clifden and District 1860-1923. Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill. 2000.
• Patience Endurance: The Great Famine in Connemara. Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill. 1997.
• History of Kylemore Castle and Abbey. Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill. 2002.

Samuel Fannin

• Irish in the Spanish Archives
• Names of townlands, baronies and parishes in Ireland

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