Viewing search results Browsing through a volume Consulting the other related volumes can be very useful as this can show how a geographical area has developed over a number of years, any changes in the electoral boundaries, or changes in demographics. If you search for a specific volume, you will also be shown a list of other related volumes, with your search results. The reference number you enter must be accurate or you will receive an error message. If you know the PRONI Reference number for a specific volume, this can be entered into the ‘PRONI Reference Search’ for example VAL/12/B/43/A/8. PRONI reference searching cannot be used with any of the other search functions. It is not possible to search for a parish in the drop down list, without first selecting a county. However, you can further refine your search by choosing a parish from within that county, from the parish drop down list. Be aware that by choosing a county only, you will return many search results.
You can browse through the locations of an entire county by selecting a specific county from the drop down list. This search is useful if you are unsure of an exact place name, but know the county and parish you wish to research. This search is optional, but if you know the parish, it will help to further refine your search. When you have chosen a county, you will be provided with a list of parishes within that specific county.
You can refine your search to one specific county (Antrim, Down, Londonderry, Fermanagh, Tyrone or Armagh), or to a specific county borough (Belfast or Londonderry). It is possible to refine a place name search by combining it with a ‘County’ and ‘Parish’ search. You may wish to try variants if you are not sure how a place name may have been recorded. For example, Town Parks is often recorded as Townparks, Whiteabbey as White Abbey, Albertbridge Road as Albert Bridge Road. There may be some differences throughout the volumes in how certain place names have been recorded. When searching for place names with apostrophes, for example Halliday’s Road, you may wish to search both with, and without the apostrophe as these may have been recorded differently in various volumes. You may wish to try both options if you are not sure how a word may have been recorded. Street may be recorded as St., Road as Rd., and Saint as St. When searching for words like street, road an saint be aware that there will be some differences in how these have been captured in the database. Be wary of using the wildcard search with words like Bally* or Tully* as these will return many results. Therefore, a search for Tand* will return results for both spellings. For example, Tanderagee is also recorded as Tandragee.
Many Irish townlands were spelled phonetically until the twentieth century. This is particularly useful for difficult place names. Use the wildcard when you are unsure about the spelling of a particular word. The wildcard (*) can be used in the place name search. For example, an ‘exact’ search for Ballymoney Street will return results only with that exact phrase. The ‘Exact’ word search is best used when you know the exact name of the location you are looking for. For example, if you search for Cushleake Mountain, the search results will include any references to Cushleake or Mountain, so your results may include Cushleake Mountain Middle, Cushleake Mountain North and Cushleake Mountain South, as well as Black Mountain, Carrowreagh Mountain. The ‘Any’ word search is useful when you are unsure of the exact title of a place. For example, a search for ‘Queen Street’ will return results with all of those words, including Queen Street, North Queen Street and New Queen Street. ‘All words’ is the default search option and will find all of the words you have searched for. To look for a city, town, street, townland or parish, input the search criteria into the ‘place name’ search field and press the search button.
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