Libraries

Family History

Find out more about your Fingal family

Please see Fingal Local Studies & Archives for all information

 

Fingal Local Studies and Archives has a wide range of sources available to facilitate family research.

All researchers – beginners or experienced – are welcome to visit our reading room and have a chat with staff.

Just telephone 01-8704495 / 96 or e-mail  lo%63al.%73t%75%64ie%[email protected] " rel="nofollow"> [email protected]   /  [email protected]  to make an appointment to visit our reading room in Clonmel House, Forster Way, Swords.  

We house the following: 

  • Findmypast and Ancestry.com (Free access on Library PCs)
  • Thom’s Directories (1840s to present date)
  • Registers of Electors, Dublin County 1945-1994
  • Scans of the burial records for 33 burial grounds in Fingal 1935-2005 (some earlier), with maps.
  • Rural District Council Labourers Cottages Ledgers, containing details on the first tenants in many of these early public housing schemes 1909-1930.
  • Dublin County Rates Books 1914-1915, 1919-1920, 1921-1930
  • Local Newspaper Drogheda Independent (Fingal Independent)
  • Database of Fingal World War 1 Dead.
  • Database of Fingal Volunteers 1916.