O'Doherty
Heritage
Below are some links to well-used resources online which may be helpful for Irish historical and genealogical research, some specifically for the O'Doherty Family, County Donegal, or greater Ireland and the descendants of Conn of the Hundred Battles.
SURNAMES
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Woulfe’s Irish Surnames (Library Ireland)
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MacLysaght Surnames, Irish Familes, More Irish Familes
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Barry Griffin's Irish Surname Maps (1901 & 1911)
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John Grenham's Surname Maps
Y-DNA STUDIES
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FamilyTreeDNA Groups: Doherty | Sons of Aodh
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Facebook: O'Dochartaigh Y-DNA | Dál Cuinn Group
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Ancient DNA Samples (hoplogroup.info)
GENEALOGIES
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Bart Jaski’s Genealogical Tables (Genelach Dál Cuinn)
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O'Clery Book of Genealogies (Analecta Hibernica JSTOR)
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O’Hart's Irish Pedigrees (Archive.org)
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Woulfe’s Index to Irish Clan Names (Library Ireland)
TOPONYMS
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Onomasticon Goedelicum (Hogan) (UCC)
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Logainm.ie (Placenames Database of Ireland)
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Meitheal Logainm.ie (Crowdsourced Minor Placenames Database)
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Townlands.ie (Irish Townlands)
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PlacenamesNI.org (NI Place-Name Project at QUB)
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Ulster Place-Name Society (QUB) (see "Other projects" menu)
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The Number of Tuaths in Tirconnell: CSPI & Flight of the Earls
LANGUAGE
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Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla (Ó Dónaill’s Irish-English Dictionary)
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eDIL (Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language)
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Index of Names in Irish Annals (Medieval Scotland)
LEGAL
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The Brehond Laws-A Legal Handbook (Laurence Ginnell)
MANUSCRIPTS
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NLI Manuscripts (McAnlis index at bottom)
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Bardic Poetry Database (TCD)
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Annals of Clonmacnoise (Archive.org)
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Book of Ballymote: Genelach Dál Cuinn | Oocities
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Book of Fenagh (Archive.org)
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Lebor na cert (The Book of rights) (Archive.org)
HISTORICAL RECORDS
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McLaughlin of Dún na nGall (Wayback Machine) / Earlier Version
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Bill Macafee's Website (Census Substitites)
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Alan Milliken’s “Annals and Miscellaneous Resources”
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Pender’s “Census of Ireland circa 1659” (IrishManuscripts.ie)
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Chancery rolls (medievalgenealogy.org.uk)
MAPS, ARCHAEOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT
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Historic Environment Viewer (Archaeology) | Definitions
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County Donegal Maps (CoTyroneIreland.com)
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Ireland’s History in Maps (Dennis Walsh)
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Landscape Character Assessment (County Donegal)
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Inishowen Coast Marine Chart (GPSNauticalCharts)
HISTORY REFERENCE
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“Northern Uí Neill” at Ireland’s History in Maps (Dennis Walsh)
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Cineál Eoghain (Facebook)
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Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Summer School (Facebook)
FOLKLORE
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Dúchas (National Folklore Collection UCD Digitization Project)
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Ordnance Survey of Ireland: Letters (AskAboutIreland)
ACADEMIC SOURCES (BOOKS & JOURNALS)
OTHER RESOURCES
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Irish chronicles and their chronology (Dan McCarthy, TCD)
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The Castles of Inishowen (Davies & Swan) (JSTOR)
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Cartlann (archive of Irish literary works)