Researching in Ireland

Name, location, and date are the keys to finding your Irish ancestors.  It's a daunting task to find the records of an Irish ancestor without most of that information.  To begin search documents from their home country, anything from obituaries to wills could hold keys to their origins.  

The information could include the town they were born in or a piece of land they own in Ireland.  Once you have that information it's much simpler to search the Irish records to find birth certificates and the census records.