• Book list
• Newspapers
  • The Armagh Guardian commenced publication in December, 1844. News of court sessions were featured regularly. See the oldirelandnews web site, an ongoing, volunteer project to transcribe 18th & 19th century Irish newspapers
• Records held by the PRONI
  • Grand Jury Records
    • Grand Jury, County Armagh - lists, PRONI ref. T/647
  • List of non-departmental Government records, Courts and Local Authorities
  • Solicitors' archives
  • The O'Hagan papers

General Information

“The Irish court system was based on the English system of law. The Four Courts of Equity were the Exchequer, Chancery, Common Pleas, and King’s/Queen’s Bench. The destruction of the Public Record Office in 1922 significantly impacted the record availability for these courts. Of the four courts, only a small collection of original records for the court of Chancery survive. There are however, a number of indexes, abstracts, and transcripts that are available. “ Read the full article from Familysearch

Individual Court proceedings were widely reported in local and national newspapers

Online Resources

• Calendar of the justiciary rolls  on Familysearch (Free)
• Deserted Children Dublin on Findmypast (££/€€/$$)
• Irish Prison Registers 1790-1924 on Findmypast (££/€€/$$)
• Ireland Dog Licence Registers on Findmypast (££/€€/$$)
• Ireland, Petty Sessions Court Registers on Findmypast (££/€€/$$)
• Ireland, Catholic Qualification & Convert Rolls 1701-1845 on Findmypast (££/€€/$$)
• Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary History & Directories on Findmypast (££/€€/$$)
• Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary Pensions 1826-1925 on Findmypast (££/€€/$$)
• Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary Service Records 1816-1922 on Findmypast (££/€€/$$)
• Ireland, Intelligence Profiles, 1914-1922 on Ancestry (££/€€/$$)
• Ireland, Police Gazettes, 1861-1893 on Ancestry (££/€€/$$)
• Ireland, Courts Martial Files, 1916-1922 on Ancestry (££/€€/$$)
• Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1870 on Ancestry (££/€€/$$)

Publications

• Margaret Falley, Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research provides a good description of court records and lists repositories and published inventories of court records. Many of the published inventories she notes are available at the Family History Library.

• The TNA has numerous Research Guides pertaining to Courts of Law.
• Many coroners' inquests were subsequently reported in local newspapers  
• The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640 - "The aim of the site is to make available to scholars, researchers, local historians and genealogists the records of the Court of Chivalry during its heyday between 1634 and 1640. Over this period the court dealt with well over a thousand cases of which it has been possible to recover details of 738. These cover a wide variety of topics relating to the social, political and cultural history of the period, from ship money and the Bishops' Wars to pew disputes and duelling, from heralds visitations and grants of arms to brawls in the street and quarrels at race meetings."
• An Introduction to Quarter Sessions Records (archived copy), by Richard Ratcliffe.