Roots Ireland

Find your Irish Ancestors today with the Irish Family History Foundation online research service

Login Register Subscribe

This website uses cookies

Our website uses cookies to give you a better browsing experience. We use cookies for the essential operation of the website. Our online advertising uses cookies to track performance of ads. To understand how visitors interact with our website, we use analytics which uses cookies. You can choose to accept all cookies, or control which we use by clicking 'Customise Preferences'. For more information visit our cookie policy.

Cookie Preferences

We use cookies to improve your experience on our website. Please choose which types of cookies you accept below. Learn more by reading our cookie policy.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to operate. These cookies hold key login information without which the website would not work. These do not hold any personal information and are not used for online advertisements or analytics. The essential cookies cannot be disabled.

Ad Storage

Enables storage ( cookies ) related to online advertising. We use online advertisements with Google Adwords, which uses cookies to track the performance of the ads.
Ad User Data

Sets consent for sending user data to Google for online advertising purposes. This is related to our online advertising with Google Adwords.

Ad Personalization

Sets consent for personalized advertising. This is related to our online advertising with Google Adwords.

Analytics Storage

Sets consent for cookies related to website analytics. We use Google Analytics to better understand how visitors interact with our website. This captures information such as your visit duration, what pages you interacted with etc

All Options

New Laois and Offaly Trader Records Added

By

We are delighted to announce the addition of 18,000 records of traders for County Laois and County Offaly to our Roots Ireland databases at laois.rootsireland.ie and offaly.rootsireland.ie.

The records are as follows:

  • Co. Laois Lucas’s Directory, 1788 (79 records)
  • Co. Laois Pigot’s Directory, 1824 (559 records)
  • Co. Laois Porter’s Directory, 1908 (330 records)
  • Co. Laois Slater’s Directory, 1846-1894 (7744 records)
  • Co. Offaly Birr Directory 1889 (324 records)
  • Co. Offaly Pigot’s Directory 1824 (530 records)
  • Co. Offaly Porter’s Directory 1908 (246 records)
  • Co. Offaly Slater’s Directory 1846-1894 (7475 records)
  • For an up to date list of sources for Offaly & Laois and to search these records, go to ifhf.rootsireland.ie and login or subscribe as required.