Clare Genealogy Tours
My Ireland Heritage finds your ancestors and exact house location from the 1700s to the late 1800s, and all available records in Ireland. We are an Irish family business dedicated to assisting you in your Irish Genealogy research for your roots and records of your family history of past generations in Clare, as well as providing you with a once in a lifetime Irish Genealogy research and tour experience to visit your families original family house and Walk in the Footsteps of your Irish Ancestors. Book an Ireland genealogy tour today!
Sean and the Team at My Ireland Heritage are a Government certified & approved Genealogy & Touring Company, and will personally guide you on the journey into your Irish ancestry to any County in Ireland.
Many companies are genealogy research only, many companies are touring companies only, we at My Ireland Family Heritage are proud to be able to encompass your research and tour together enabling us to work with you throughout the process to customize your tour with you and for you. To achieve a full genealogy tour experience consider adding one of our one-day historical tours.
Our Tours
Our Ancestral Townland Experience Tours
County Clare’s dramatic landscape, from the limestone expanse of the Burren to the Atlantic cliffs at Moher, was also a hard landscape to farm, and it sent enormous numbers of emigrants abroad during and after the Great Famine. For many families researching Clare roots today, that emigration story is the whole reason they’re looking, a great-grandparent who left a small holding near Ennis, Kilrush or the Burren’s edge and never spoke much about home again.
Clare’s parish records can be scattered and, in places, incomplete, which makes patient, on-the-ground research especially valuable here. We start from whatever record survives, a baptism entry, a ship’s manifest, a family story, and work to confirm the actual parish and townland behind it, since Clare’s civil parishes often cover several separate church congregations. From there we identify the graveyard your family used, which in a county this rural is often still standing much as it was in the 1800s.
A tour through Clare brings you from Ennis out along stone-walled boreens to the townland itself, with time to see the wider landscape, the Burren’s grey hills, the wild coastline and the market towns which shaped your family’s life before they ever set foot on an emigrant ship.
- Clare has 11 Baronies
- Clare has 81 Civil Parishes
- Clare has 154 Electoral Divisions
- Clare has 2253 Townlands
- Clare has 16 sub townlands
County Clare, in the Mid-West Region and the province of Munster. Clare is north-west of the River Shannon covering a total area of 3,400 square kilometres Clare was founded by the noble Luke Fitzgerald. Clare is the 7th largest of Ireland’s 32 traditional counties in area and the 19th largest in terms of population.
The Cliffs of Moher are located at the edge of the Burren region in County Clare, They rise 390 ft above the Atlantic Ocean at Hag’s Head and reach their maximum height of 702 ft just north of O’Brien’s Tower. Formally a river Bed they are 280 million years old. (see our The Burren & Cliffs of Moher Tour)
The Irish Celtic Tribes By Ptolemy 1st Century 500BC-500AD
- County Clare- The Ganganoi Family
Dynasties 1500-1600 AD
- Irish – O’Loughlin,McMahon,O’Dea,O’Connor, Fitzpatrick
- Norman-None
- Scottish -None
- Viking – None
County Clare – Things to do and may be possible to include within your Ancestral Townland Experience Tour
- Wild Atlantic Way
- Clare Museum and Genealogy records
- The Cliffs of Moher
- The Burren geological park
- Lemanagh Castle
- Bunratty Castle
- Alwee and Doolin Caves
- Poulnabrone Dolmen
- Quinn Abbey
- Knappogue Castle
- Ennis Friary
Frequently Asked Questions
My Clare ancestors emigrated during the Famine, are there still records from that period?
Some are patchy from that exact era, but surviving parish registers, gravestones, Griffith’s Valuation and later census returns often let us reconstruct a family’s location even when direct Famine-era records are thin.
Can you find a homestead near the Burren or the Cliffs of Moher?
Yes, we regularly research families from this part of Clare and can guide you to the actual townland alongside these landmarks.
How long does a typical Clare ancestral tour take?
This depends on how many locations we’re covering, but most Clare tours run a full day, with research completed in advance of your visit.
