Family History

Fingal Local Studies and Archives has a wide range of sources available to facilitate family research.

All researchers – beginners or experienced – are welcome to visit our reading room and have a chat with staff.

Just telephone 01-8704495 / 96 or e-mail  [email protected]   /  [email protected]  to make an appointment to visit our reading room in Clonmel House, Forster Way, Swords.  

We house the following: 

• Findmypast and Ancestry.com (Free access on Library PCs)
• Thom’s Directories (1840s to present date)
• Registers of Electors, Dublin County 1945-1994
• Scans of the burial records for 33 burial grounds in Fingal 1935-2005 (some earlier), with maps.
• Rural District Council Labourers Cottages Ledgers, containing details on the first tenants in many of these early public housing schemes 1909-1930.
• Dublin County Rates Books 1914-1915, 1919-1920, 1921-1930
• Local Newspaper Drogheda Independent (Fingal Independent)
• Database of Fingal World War 1 Dead.
• Database of Fingal Volunteers 1916.