An Introduction to County Kerry Administrative Divisions And Genealogical Records

North Kerry Reaching Out Heritage Project

7:30pm Wednesday 10 Apr 2013

The Seanchaí: Kerry Writers Museum, 24 The Square, Listowel, Co. Kerry

by Paddy Waldron

WWW version:

http://www.pwaldron.info/listowel/

Introduction

Townlands

(District) Electoral Divisions (DEDs)

Dispensary Districts or Dispensary and Registration Districts or Registrar's Districts

Poor Law Unions (PLUs) or Superintendent Registrar's Districts (or, at familysearch.org and ancestry.com, mis-described as registration districts)

Civil Parishes

Catholic Parishes

Dioceses or Areas (at irishgenealogy.ie)

Baronies

Counties

Irish Family History Foundation (IFHF) Centres

"City or Town" for "Last Permanent Residence" and/or "Place of Birth" on Ellis Island Manifests

Provinces

GAA Provinces

Catholic Provinces

Anglican Provinces

Electoral Constituencies

Telephone Area Codes

Examples

Further Reading