What good fortune if your ancestors came from Bandon, County Cork! A comprehensive website provides a one-stop source for Bandon family history research: http://www.bandon-genealogy.com/. The site was created for researching roots in and around Bandon. It's an impressive collection of indexes, photos, maps, census/military/church/emigrant/marriage/graveyard records, family trees, wills, and more - all free of charge to users. Townlands in the Bandon area include:

• Ballymodan
• Ballinadee
• Brinny
• Desert
• Innishannon
• Kilbrittain
• Kilbrogan
• Killowen
• Kilmoloda
• Knockavilla
• Leighmoney
• Templemartin
• Timoleague
• Rathclaren

A publication entitled The Tresilian Family of County Cork - Landowners and Bandon Merchants is summarized on the website by index and chapter titles. The Tresilians married into well-known Bandon families such as the Pophams, Sullivans, Allmans, Belchers, Bernards, Seymours, Jenkins, and Jagoes. If you have any connection to the Bandon area, take a look at this extraordinary website.