Donegal County Archives holds records which might be of assistance when undertaking family research from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries onwards:
General Valuation registers. These registers list occupiers and owners of land and property in Donegal from the 1880's (though we do not hold the actual maps, which are available in Dublin);
Electoral Register extract, West Donegal, 1919
For further information on Researching your family history and on links to useful sources please download this PDF:
Researchers Guide to Family History Sources 2023, V. 4
PowerPoint Presentation on Family History in Donegal County Archives
Archives Genealogy presentation
Contact details for Donegal County Archives Service are:
Donegal County Archives Service, Donegal County Council, Three Rivers Centre, Lifford, County Donegal. Tel: +353 74 9172490. E-Mail: [email protected]. For more information on sources check out the Website: http://www.donegalcoco.ie/archives
Donegal County Archives Service is happy to assist researchers in any way possible with their research. However the County Archives is not a genealogical institution and in general we cannot conduct detailed research for individuals. We will however carry out research for researchers in records that, for privacy reasons, cannot be made generally available to the public.