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Records in this collection
- Ardagh Wills 1690-1857
- Betham Prerogative Marriage Licences Abstracts, 1629-1810
- Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead
- Clonfert Marriage Bonds 1663-1857
- Clonfert Wills and Administrations 1663-1857
- Crossle Genealogical Abstracts
- Deputy Keeper of Ireland, Index to the Act or Grant Books, and to Original Wills, of the Diocese of Dublin 1272-1858 (26th, 30th and 31st Reports, 1894, 1899)
- Donegal cemetery records
- Farrar's Index to Irish Marriages 1771-1812
- Fermanagh cemetery records
- Fermanagh parish registers baptisms
- Fermanagh parish registers burials
- Fermanagh parish registers marriages
- Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858
- Ireland BillionGraves Cemetery Index
- Ireland Calendars Of Wills & Administrations 1858-1965
- Ireland civil birth registers index
- Ireland civil marriage registers index
- Ireland Deaths 1864-1870
- Ireland Down Anaghlone Presbyterian baptisms 1839-1913
- Ireland Down Anaghlone Presbyterian marriages 1845-1913
- Ireland Down Annaclone (COI) baptisms 1877-1900
- Ireland Down Annaclone (COI) burials 1877-1900
- Ireland Down Annaclone (COI) marriages 1845-1900
- Ireland Down Ballyroney Presbyterian baptisms 1819-1913
- Ireland Down Ballyroney Presbyterian marriages 1831-1906
- Ireland Down St Colmans Annaclone (RC) baptisms 1834-1913
- Ireland Down St Colmans Annaclone (RC) burials 1851-1913
- Ireland Down St Colmans Annaclone (RC) marriages 1851-1913
- Ireland memorial and burial register, 1618-2005
- Ireland Memorial Inscriptions
- Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms
- Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Burials
- Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Congregational Records
- Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Marriages
- Ireland Roscommon Kiltullagh cemeteries
- Ireland, Dublin Church of Ireland Baptisms
- Ireland, Dublin Church of Ireland burials
- Ireland, Dublin Church of Ireland marriages
- Ireland, Gravestone Records
- Ireland, Inland Revenue Wills & Administrations 1828-1879
- Ireland, Non-conformist marriages
- Ireland, original will registers 1858-1920
- Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) births
- Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) deaths
- Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) marriages
- Irish Births 1864-1958
- Irish Death Notices In American Newspapers
- Irish Deaths 1864-1958
- Irish Marriage Notices in American Newspapers
- Irish Marriages 1845-1958
- Kiltullagh Parish (RC) Baptisms
- Kiltullagh Parish (RC) Marriages
- Leighlin Administrations 1700-1857
- Limerick non-conformist baptisms
- Limerick non-conformist congregational records 1911-1945
- Lincolnshire marriages
- Marriage Licence Bonds; Diocese of Cloyne 1630-1800
- Memorials of the Dead: Galway & Mayo
- Quakers Annual Monitor 1849
- Raphoe Marriage Bonds 1710-55 and 1817-30
- Register of Derry Cathedral Baptisms 1642-1703
- Registers of the French Non-Conformist Churches Dublin 1701-1831
- Registers of the French non-conformist churches Dublin 1702-1731
- Sir Arthur Vicars, Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536 - 1810
- The Parish Register Society of Dublin, The Registers of St. Patrick, Dublin, 1677-1800, 1907
- The Register of Derry Cathedral Burials 1642-1703
- The Register of Derry Cathedral Marriages 1642-1703
- Thomas Philip Le Fanu, Registers of the French Church of Portarlington, Ireland, 1694-1816
- Thrift Genealogical Abstracts
- Tipperary Clans Archive
- Tyrone Cemetery Records
- W.P.W. Phillimore & Gertrude Thrift, Indexes to Irish Wills 1536-1858
- Wicklow cemetery records
- WW1 Irish Soldiers Wills, 1914-1920
Find your ancestors in Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead
Brian J. Cantwell (1914-92) was probably the best known and most industrious transcriber of gravestones and church memorials in Ireland. During the last 20 years or so of his life he transcribed and then printed 11 volumes of graveyard and church memorial transcriptions. These volumes were a comprehensive treatment for Counties Wicklow and Wexford, and also covered a large proportion of south County Dublin. Other transcripts by him were either published in journals (Galway and Kildare) or remained unpublished (Clare, Cork and Sligo) until 2005 when they were published on CD by Eneclann. They are now available here.
This dataset includes:
- Scanned images of all Cantwell’s original transcripts
- 24,392 memorials
- 60,790 names
Cantwell’s transcriptions included all visible and legible gravestones or memorials in graveyards with a date of 1880 or before, and all surviving interior church memorials.
Geographic coverage
The data is complete and comprehensive for Counties Wexford and Wicklow, and for those locations visited in the other counties listed below.
Structure of the Transcripts
Each of the 11 printed volumes has the following components:
1. Location map based on an OS map for the region. This is useful as it shows the precise place for each graveyard or church.
2. Indexes
3. Introduction
4. Transcripts
The transcripts for each location are grouped together and begin with an introduction to that place. This is often important as it explains the history and physical condition of the monuments. The memorials for each section (either a church and/or graveyard) are organized in alphabetical order using the lead surname, which appears in capital letters. Users should note that not all the names on a memorial will have the same surname as the lead Surname.
County |
Names |
Clare |
1,571 |
Cork |
215 |
Dublin |
3,151 |
Galway |
235 |
Kildare |
387 |
Sligo |
61 |
Wexford |
36,990 |
Wicklow |
18,180 |
Total |
60,790 |