Cork Genealogy Tours
My Ireland Heritage find your Ancestors and exact house location from the 1700’s to the late 1800’s, 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 Cork, as well as providing you with a once in a lifetime Irish Genealogy tour experience to visit your families original family house and Walk in the Footsteps of your Irish Ancestors.
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 Cork is the largest county in Ireland by area, and its family history reflects that scale, from the city itself to the fishing villages of the west Cork coast and the farmland stretching toward the Kerry border. Cork also holds a unique place in Irish emigration history: the port of Cobh, then called Queenstown, was for decades the departure point for huge numbers of Irish emigrants heading to North America, and was the Titanic’s final port of call in 1912. If your family left Ireland by ship, there’s a real chance Cork was their last sight of home, whatever county they started in.
Because Cork is so large, research here depends heavily on narrowing down the right parish within the right barony before we ever discuss graveyards or townlands, a mistake at that first step can send research in entirely the wrong direction. We take the time to confirm the specific parish your family used, cross-checking against neighbouring surnames and known family locations, before identifying the actual church and burial ground.
A Cork tour can range from the city’s genealogical archives out to a remote west Cork townland, or include a visit to Cobh’s emigration heritage sites, a fitting way to trace both where your family came from and how they left.
- Cork has 24 Baronies
- Cork has 138 Civil Parishes
- Cork has 390 Electoral Divisions
- Cork has 5416 Townlands
- Cork has 233 sub townlands
Cork meaning marsh is located in the South-West Region, in the province of Munster. It has a population of 125,622 and it is the largest County in Ireland with the second largest city in the state and the third most populous on the island of Ireland.
West Cork was one of the most devastated counties in Ireland at the time of the Great Famine such place as Skibbereen , Clonakility (Home of Michael Collins) and Rosscarbey which had endured an enormous fluctuation , and emigration in the population at that time 1845-50. (see About Emmigration and the Famine)
The Irish Celtic Tribes By Ptolemy 1st Century 500BC-500AD
- County Cork- The Usdiai and The Iwernoi
Family Dynasties 1500-1600 AD
- Irish – O’Leary, McCarthy, O’Driscoll, O’Mahoney, O’Sullivan, O’Donovan
- Norman – De Courcey, Barry, Coppinger, Fitzgerald,Long
- Scottish – McSweeney
- Viking – Coppinger ,Cotter
County Cork – Things to do and may be possible to include within your Ancestral Townland Experience Tour
- Wild Atlantic way
- Fota Wild Park
- Blarney Castle & Gardens
- Cork City Gaol
- Mizen Head Penninsula and Visitor’s Center
- Cobh Heritage Center ( Last stop of the Titanic)
- Skibbereen Famine Heritage Center
- Kinsale and Charles Fort
- Beal Na Bláth assassination point of Michael Collins
- Choctaw Native American Monument (The Choctaw presented Ireland with Famine relief at the height of the great Famine 1847)
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it true my ancestors may have left from Cork even if they weren't originally from there?
Yes, this is very common. Cobh (Queenstown) was one of Ireland’s principal emigration ports, so many emigrants from other counties departed from Cork even though their family homestead was elsewhere.
Cork is a huge county, how do you know where to start?
We begin with whatever record or family story you have, confirm the correct parish and barony, and narrow down from there. Cork’s size means this first step is especially important.
Can a Cork tour include both city archives and a rural homestead visit?
Yes, many of our Cork itineraries combine research at city-based archives with a visit to the actual townland, giving a fuller picture of your family’s story.
