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Guide to Irish Family History sources (NLI website): https://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx
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RC parish records (not indexed, best used in conjunction with free FindMyPast index): https://registers.nli.ie/
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IrishGenealogy.ie source of civil registration records (all island up to 1921) and information on other sources (read about what is available and what time-frames are covered): https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/.../irish.../civil-records
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National Archives of Ireland genealogy links: https://genealogy.nationalarchives.ie/ Including the census, will calendars from 1858 (read the guide to testamentary records), and many other useful genealogy sources.
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Swilson.info contains directories, maps, and how to work out which civil parish or registration district an RC parish is in and vice versa. https://www.swilson.info/
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LibraryIreland: Various sources including many town and county directories (not all at Swilson) and some useful sources (Matheson) on surnames and first name variations in the registrations https://www.libraryireland.com/Genealogy.php
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AskAboutIreland: includes some Thoms Directories but most importantly the Griffiths Land Valuations: https://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith.../index.xml...
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For places (townlands, electoral districts, civil parishes - important info for census and civil registration) see https://www.townlands.ie/
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For Ordnance Survey maps see https://osi.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html...
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Transportation Records to Australia: https://www.nationalarchives.ie/.../penal.../....
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Chief Secretary's Office Papers (CSORP): https://csorp.nationalarchives.ie/context/index.html sometimes you'll find information about appeals related to transportation or requests for appointments, or transfers to other parts of what were then the British colonies.
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Linked to both transportation and CSORP papers are the proclamations giving details of offences and the persons sought in conjunction with them (weirdly, these are published on the website of the Law Reform Commission as these Acts need to be repealed!) https://www.lawreform.ie/.../all-ireland-and-general.993...
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Dúchas Schools Folklore Collection. A project organised by the Irish government in the 1930s, folklore including stories about local people gathered by primary schools around what's now the Republic of Ireland https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes
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Registry of Deeds Index Project: Mostly deeds/mortgages related to land, some marriage articles/settlements and wills: https://irishdeedsindex.net/ This is an ongoing project to index and transcribe documents dating from the 1700s The collection is imaged but not indexed here: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/185720?availability=Family%20History%20Library
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Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland (No clan tartans - not an Irish thing!) - if a specific ancestor and his descendants were issued a coat of arms you may find the details here of the pedigree that they presented https://www.nli.ie/en/heraldry-introduction.aspx
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Irish Manuscripts Commission - a variety of sources including King's Inn's Admission papers for anyone with a lawyer in their family tree, Registry of Deeds and abstracts of wills from about 1708-1830, Guide to Irish Quaker Records, Books of Survey and Distribution, etc etc https://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/pro.../imc-digital-editions/
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Virtual Treasury - a new collaboration and work in progress to try to reconstruct some of the sources lost during the fire in the Public Records Office in 1922, including some of the sources mentioned in previous links e.g. Irish Manuscripts Commission: https://virtualtreasury.ie/
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I almost forgot about the Memorials for the Dead, a collection of journals publishing (notable) memorial inscriptions, sometimes on graves that no longer exist or are now illegible. Several volumes available at Archive.org - this is just one. https://archive.org/.../journalforyea.../page/n4/mode/1up...
