Longford 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 Longford, 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 Longford is one of Ireland’s smaller and quieter midlands counties, a place of small farms, lakes and market towns that saw significant emigration relative to its size, particularly through the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its parish records reflect small, close farming communities, often centred on Longford town itself, where the same families can be traced across multiple generations before economic pressure sent later descendants abroad.
Because Longford’s population has always been relatively small, its surviving parish and graveyard records, while not always extensive, tend to be manageable to work through thoroughly once we’ve confirmed the correct church congregation for your family. As with every county, the civil parish printed on an old record isn’t always the parish your family actually used for baptisms, marriages and burials, and we take the time to establish that distinction before proposing a tour.
A Longford tour takes in quiet midlands scenery and small market towns, arriving at your family’s specific townland, often a genuinely peaceful, rural setting that has changed comparatively little since your ancestors farmed it. For many families, a smaller, quieter county like Longford makes for a particularly personal, unhurried day of discovery.
- Longford has 6 Baronies
- Longford has 26 Civil Parishes
- Longford has 55 Electoral Divisions
- Longford has 910 Townlands
- Longford has 18 Sub Townlands
Longford has a population of 10,310 according to the 2016 census. The town is built on the banks of the River Camlin which is a tributary of the River Shannon. The name Longford is an Anglicisation of the Irish Longphort, from long (meaning “ship”) and port. This name was applied to many Irish settlements of Viking origin and eventually came to mean fort or camp in the Irish language
Rathcline takes its name from the townland and parish of Rathcline. It is located in southwest County Longford, to the east of Lough Ree and north of the River Inny. Rathcline barony was formed from the territories of The Callow, Lanesboro to Ballymahon) and the territory of Clanconnor .Rathcline Castle was built around the 9th Century by the Ó Cuinn (O’Quinn) clan. Later it was fought for and taken by the Uí Fhearghail (O’Farrell) clan and subsequently taken over by the Normans around the end of the 12th Century.
The Corlea Iron Age bog road which was built in 148 BC across the boglands in proximity to the River Shannon. The oak road is the largest of its kind to have been uncovered in Europe and can be seen at the Visitor Centre (Keenagh).
Family Dynasties 1500-1600 AD
- • Irish = O’Farrell, Quinn
- Norman – Calvert, Mortimer, Tuite, Dalton
- Scottish – None
- Viking – None
County Limerick – Things to do and may be possible to include within your Ancestral Townland Experience Tour
- St Mel’s Cathedral
- Corlea Trackway Visitor Centre (Keenagh)
- Irelands Ancient East
- Ardagh Heritage and Creativity Centre (Longford)
- Quaker Island, Lough Ree, Ireland
- Casey’s Sculptures (Newtown Cashel)
- The Mall (Longford)
- Longford Castle
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Longford a smaller county to research compared to somewhere like Cork or Galway?
In terms of scale, yes, though this often makes it easier to work through the surviving records thoroughly once we’ve confirmed your family’s correct parish.
My ancestors are simply listed as "Longford", can you find the specific parish?
In most cases, yes, working from whatever detail is available in the original record, cross-referenced with surviving local church and graveyard records.
What's a typical Longford tour like?
A quiet, rural day through market towns and countryside, ending at your family’s specific townland, with research completed in advance of your visit.
