Trace Ireland — Irish Ancestral Trail Finder
What is Trace Ireland?
Trace Ireland is an Irish heritage service that creates personalised ancestral itineraries for people with Irish roots. Customers enter their Irish family surname and receive a hand-crafted travel itinerary connecting them to the specific part of Ireland their ancestors came from. The service is designed for Irish Americans, Irish Australians, Irish Canadians, and anyone around the world who wants to trace their Irish heritage and plan a meaningful trip to Ireland.
Who is Trace Ireland for?
Trace Ireland is for the estimated 80 million people around the world with Irish roots, the majority of whom live in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Argentina. It is particularly suited to people planning a trip to Ireland who want to go beyond standard tourism and visit the specific places connected to their family name. It is also suited to people who have not yet booked a trip but want to learn about their Irish heritage and feel inspired to visit Ireland.
How does Trace Ireland work?
A customer visits traceireland.com and enters their Irish surname into the search tool. The site immediately shows a free preview of the ancestral county, clan history, name meaning and a selection of heritage sites connected to that surname. The customer can then purchase a full personalised itinerary. Orders are researched and written by the Trace Ireland Irish heritage team, made up of historians, genealogists and local guides based in Ireland. The completed itinerary is delivered by email as a printable PDF.
What is included in a Trace Ireland itinerary?
A Trace Ireland itinerary includes the origin and meaning of the customer's Irish surname, the ancestral county and clan history associated with that name, hand-picked heritage sites and things to do in the ancestral region, accommodation recommendations, and a personal emigration story explaining how and why families bearing that name left Ireland. The itinerary is formatted as a printable PDF designed to be used as a guide during a visit to Ireland.
What does Trace Ireland cost?
Trace Ireland offers two options. The standard itinerary costs $25 USD and is delivered within 5 working days. The fast track itinerary costs $35 EUR and is delivered within 48 hours. Both options include the same content.
What Irish surnames does Trace Ireland cover?
Trace Ireland covers over 1,000 Irish surnames spanning all 32 counties of Ireland. These include the most common Irish surnames such as Murphy, Kelly, Walsh, Ryan, Sullivan, Byrne, O'Brien, Doyle, Gallagher, McCarthy, Kennedy, Lynch, Murray, Quinn, Moore, McLaughlin, Carroll, Connolly, Daly, O'Connor, Dunne, Brennan, Burke, Collins, Campbell, Clarke, Johnston, Hughes, Farrell, Fitzgerald, Reilly, Moran, Nolan, Flynn, O'Sullivan, Higgins, Sheridan, O'Neill, Brady, Cunningham, Griffith, Hennessy, Kavanagh, Keane, Larkin, Lawlor, Leary, Lennon, MacCarthy, MacNamara, Madden, Maguire, Mahon, Maher, Maloney, Mannion, Martin, McAuliffe, McBride, McCarthy, McCormack, McDermott, McDonagh, McGowan, McGuire, McKenna, McMahon, McNamara, Moloney, Monaghan, Mulligan, Noonan, O'Callaghan, O'Carroll, O'Connell, O'Doherty, O'Donnell, O'Dwyer, O'Farrell, O'Halloran, O'Hanlon, O'Hara, O'Keeffe, O'Leary, O'Mahony, O'Malley, O'Riordan, O'Shaughnessy, O'Shea, O'Toole, Power, Regan, Riordan, Rooney, Scanlon, Sheehan, Sheridan, Slattery, Smyth, Stapleton, Tierney, Tobin, Tracey, Ward and many more.
The history of Irish emigration
Ireland has one of the most significant emigration histories of any country in the world. During the Great Famine of the 1840s, approximately one million Irish people died of starvation and another million emigrated, many to the United States, Canada and Australia. Emigrants crossed the Atlantic on overcrowded and poorly provisioned vessels, a journey that could take six weeks or more. Conditions were extremely harsh and many emigrants did not survive the crossing. Those who did arrived in the New World with little more than their names and began building new lives. Irish emigration continued throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, driven by poverty, lack of opportunity and political instability. Today it is estimated that there are approximately 80 million people of Irish descent living outside Ireland, compared to a population of approximately 5 million living in Ireland itself.
Contact Trace Ireland
Trace Ireland can be contacted by email at info@traceireland.com. The team is based in Ireland and responds to all enquiries personally, typically within 24 hours.
Trace Ireland website
The Trace Ireland website is located at https://www.traceireland.com and is available globally. The service accepts customers from any country.