This section contains both original and curated content.
Cemeteries is a collection of County Cork cemetery maps. Cemeteries are listed by district.
Within a district, cemeteries are generally organized by civil parishes or civil parish groups. Links are provided to references in online cemetery databases.
At the top of each district section is a link to a Google map for that district. The Google district cemetery maps are hyperlinked to each other.
On a cemetery map page, you'll see a bar on the left showing the District Name and its pinned cemeteries. The section called Adjacent Districts shows icons with crosses. The cross icons lead to adjacent district cemetery maps.
• When you click on a cross icon, the left sidebar will open a description with the URL link to that district Google map page.
• When you click THAT link, you'll get a Redirect Notice saying that your browser is about to go somewhere else. The URL of the map you want to hop to has been shortened with a URL shortener, but should contain a recognizable district name.
• Click AGAIN to hop to the next district map.
So it takes three clicks to make the hop to an adjacent district. I would not have done it that way had there been an easy way to do otherwise.
Unfortunately, the implementation of customized Google maps does not provide the features needed in order to Suggest a Cemetery to Cork Gen for that map. This is REALLY annoying. Again, Google's implementation is not my choice.
Cork Ancestors is the work of Jean Prendergast and others. It is a valuable resource. Those pages are best viewed on a wide screen computer.
There are plenty of great Ireland and Cork genealogy websites in existence. The ones I use most frequently are on the HOME page for easy access. You'll find lots more under LINKS, under which there are direct links to other websites. There are also mini-linksets on this website, including such items as Census & Survey; History; and Military.
Surnames is a collection of pages on common County Cork surnames and were put in place to support the TAB pages (below) with the remodel of 2020.
Many of the families with more common surnames used secondary names.
A TAB page footnote might say See: [name] where [name] is a surname for which there is a dedicated page. The surname page may discuss or illustrate the TAB reference in more detail.
These pages are under continual development, being expanded with verifiable examples of secondary name usage, taken from land valuation books; civil registration, and church records.
Tithe Book Interpretations is a collection of Tithe Applotment Book interpretations done by Cork Gen. They are called interpretations rather than transcriptions because a transcription is something different in the eyes of a professional genealogist. A transcription is a letter-for-letter, punctuation mark-for-punctuation mark copy of what one sees on an original source. My interpretations are my own opinion of what I think I see in those sources, annotated with additional notes. My opinion may not necessarily be right, and it may be subject to change. The earliest interpretations were done without the acccessibility of additional resources that are now online. Someday I have to go back and revisit those earliest interpretations, to see if my opinion on them has changed.
The TABs contain interpretations and indexes by civil parish. The TAB interpretations mimic the original source images in terms of enumeration order and spelling. Seeing the context in which a person was named can be important. It's good to know who the immediate neighbors were.
TAB returns of a given parish may not appear to follow any particular order or grouping, but there often is. If the parish was split across more than one barony, results might be grouped by barony. More than one person may have been the receiver of the assessments collected in a parish. If so, the enumerations may have grouped townlands according to who was entitled to those payments.
There are also indexes by Poor Law Union, though keep in mind that the bulk of the enumerations were done before the Poor Law Unions even came into existence (1838). However, if your ancestor left Ireland before 1838, chances are that if they named their origins in records where they settled, they might have named a local market town. Districts usually developed around these towns. Your ancestors may have left relatives behind, enumerated in the District.
The TAB Table of Contents (TOC) by surname is a single page showing ALL the various spellings of surnames encountered so far in the TABs. Search it with Control-F or the search function on your computer. You may see variations of spellings of names starting with K versus C, etc. Search the TOC first so you know where to look on the alphabetized pages.
The alphabetized pages cover names starting with a letter of the alphabet (or cover certain consecutive letters, such as IJ.) If you are looking for Collins, you would look at the page covering names starting with C after verifying in the TOC that Collins has no strange spellings that would compel its tabulation under another letter. If you were looking for Keadigan, you would learn from searching the TOC that Keadigan is not under K but is instead indexed under Cadogan, so you would look on the page for names starting with C.