Browse Ireland is now in its 8th year in existence and they believe it is Ireland's busiest web directory.

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This is Your Irish Roots: www.youririshroots.com . A good browsing site. Has lots of different topics which are given a well written overview.

Carlow site - part of the IGP. Interesting with lots of look-ups.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcar2/

Doras - Directory of people and things Irish.

The Family Tree Maker site is a good one for general stuff too and could be the largest genealogical database outside the Church of Jesus Christ and the Later Day Saints at Utah.

http://www.familytreemaker.com/index.html

This is a great site from the National Archives of Ireland. This one deals with the Transportation Records and you can type in names and search the lists of people transported. For example Mary Doolan transported to Australia for 7 years for theft of a pair of boots!

http://www.kst.dit.ie/nat-arch/search01.html

This one is serious stuff. The Annals of Ulster in Gaelic. Not for the faint hearted.

http--sunsite.unc.edu-gaelic-Eire-7.8.2.html

The Society of Genealogists runs a nice little site and this shows their holdings.

http://www.sog.org.uk/index.html

Laois & Offaly Family History research Centre

http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/Geneal/LaoisOff.htm

Laois (Queen's) Ireland Genealogy

The Genealogy of

Excellent site for Laois information with great photos

http://www.rootsweb.com/~irllex/index.htm

University College Cork in CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts at http://www.ucc.ie/celt/contents/online/L100012/

The logos right link to the main pages of this academic site deserving of the highest praise for what it has achieved. They have published so many historical Irish texts, some translated and others in their original language.