Ancient Genealogy and Manuscripts

Highlights

• Most Manuscripts deal mainly with the male line of the family and refer to females as the mother of and the daughter of.
• Reconstruction of ancient genealogy through Manuscripts from 800 to 1800.
• Large volumes of ancient manuscripts are unused in the national repositories.
• 1500 & 1600 documents are now in the Manuscripts department.
• Fiants give further links to sources.
• O'Maelechlainn, King o Meath, links with the Gaelic period.
• It should be noted that the majority of Irish people would find it hard to link up with the ancient Irish in these manuscripts, but you never know.
• Books
  • Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae Vol 1, M.A. O'Brien
  • Analecta Hibernica No. 18
  • The O'Clery Book of Genealogies, editor Seamus Pender
  • Extents of Irish Monastic Possessions 1540-41, White