Making a start on your family tree?

Local burial records can provide a goldmine of information on your past and now there’s even more detail available at your fingertips, thanks to Cork County Council’s Skibbereen Heritage Centre.

The Centre has uploaded another tranche of previously unavailable burial register records to its online database.

The graveyards included in the 2025 upload are Abbeyswell (Kilgobnet), Aglish, Araglen (Araglin), Ballyhea, Ballylough, Banteer, Castlemagner, Castletownroche (Kilsane/Kilsone), Clonfert, Conna, Cooline, Drishane, Holycross, St Brigid’s Buttevant, St Lachteen’s Grenagh, St Mary’s Millstreet and three Bandon graveyards, St Peter’s Ballymodan, Kilbrogan and the Old Ballymodan Graveyard.

The latest addition brings the total number of burial records now available on their website skibbheritage.com to 97,923 burials, all of which are available to access free of charge from anywhere in the world.

The records from 143 graveyards in County Cork are available to the public.

“I would like to commend the small team at Skibbereen Heritage Centre, supported by Cork County Council, who have been diligently working on this important digitisation project for several years.” said Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Joe Carroll.

“It is a huge body of work to have almost 100,000 burial records available online for people in County Cork and across the globe to discover their ancestor’s final resting place”.

The team at Skibbereen Heritage Centre hope to continue this project over the 2025/6 winter period, with the support of Cork County Council, to upload more records next spring.