Small Sources No. 42. This is a list of 104 tenants on the Hart estate in Kilderry on the Inishowen Peninsula, Donegal in the period from the 1750s to 1780s. The estate is mainly within the Civil parish of Muff, which is also the name of the main local town. A view of the local landscape is shown above. The list is from the index to part of the rental. However, the index pages for the letters T-Z are missing. Names beginning with these letters are therefore not included. The original document is in the National Library of Ireland (NLI Ms. 7885). The index is a loose document within a single large rental book that is highly disorganised and in bad condition. The rental also contains further loose documents (receipts, notes, lists of tenants etc.). The index would appear to cover only the latter half of the 18th century, whereas the full rental book also covers a later period. The index (see above) refers to the page within the rental on which the accounts for each tenant are recorded over a period of years. As example, the illustration below shows part of the rent records of Patrick Barr in the townland of Craig from 1758-1767. As is usual in this style of rental, the rent due is on the left page and the payments on the right page. Only the top of the left page is shown below. This information is available for all of those tenants listed below, and also further tenants not included in this index.
