Irish family history advice

[BerfyTigot]

Hi, I'm looking for some help researching my mum's dad who unfortunately died when she was a child. She is in her 80's now and would dearly love to know more about his early life in Kinsale/ Cork area.

I have some basic info (full name, DOB and parents names) but nothing more. I know that he moved to the UK as a young man where he married my grandmother.

Can anyone point me in the right direction - websites or a genealogist in the Cork area.

Thanks for your help!

Your best starting point is the government Irish genealogy site https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ where you can see births deaths and marriages as well as the 1901 and 1911 census. Irish records can be tricky. Any uk based genealogist should have experience in Irish searching. The best Irish company I have worked with is Dublin based but have experts in all parts of the island of Ireland. https://www.irishfamilyhistorycentre.com/

@GulesMeansRed thank you , I’ve just used your link and found my maternal grandfather !

It’s a brilliant resource which shows you the original documents free of charge.

@GulesMeansRed thanks very much for the link. Sadly I still can't find him.

Good to see it's useful for other people.

Is there any unusual surname amongst your family? Trying to find Thomas O'Sullivan is harder than Theodore Daunt for example.
I think Ancestry still has a months free trial and you can sort of filter by Irish records.
Is the family Catholic or Church of Ireland...I think Kinsale had a small Methodist community too.

Thanks for everyone's help and I have to say that the link posted by @GulesMeansRed has turned out to be fab! We've now found various other relatives - and all for free!!

@BerfyTigot
If your grand father had an O' name - eg O' Sullivan it might be on the Census as Sullivan. Sometimes they dropped the O' sometimes they added them
Kinsale is a lovely part of the world and well worth a visit. Who knows what you might discover.

@LadyEloise1 it's a Mc name - but sometimes Mac or both on the same document!!
I think we're going to visit next summer! Thanks for the info

Fuzzy searching is your friend for all records and can work well on the Irish databases. If you have a name like Sullivan when you're not sure if it's O'Sullivan, then you can use asterisks to act as wildcards - hard to show this on MN as asterisks bold the content but something like asterisk ulli asterisk and that will return all the Sullivans and O'Sullivans, but also the Mulligans and similar. Worth having a play around as sometimes stuff has been wrongly transcribed or indexed.

Give me a shout if you want help with your visit or any recommendations people to speak to. From Kinsale originally 😉

I was going to add to my post that it equally applied to a Mc or Mac name.

Ah thanks everyone, sorry for the late reply, I've been on holiday and had very patchy internet.

Particular thanks to @LadyEloise1 and @MustIthough. I'm going to have another look at it today🤞