‘Murdered’ Protestants of Clone, Co. Wexford 1798
Small Sources 81: When researching in Irish or other archives a hidden treasure can sometimes be uncovered. This was the case on a recent visit to the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. The RCB Library is the main repository for material generated by the Church of Ireland (Episcopalian) at a national or parish level. […]
The Irish Ancestry of President Joe Biden
Like many refugees throughout history who have made the unenviable decision to flee catastrophe in their homeland, the one million Irish men, women and children who fled the devastation wrought by the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s could not have known what their future held. The flight from Ireland persisted for decades with […]
Tenants in Moville Civil Parishes, Donegal: 1823-26
Small Sources No. 79. Rentals are the records of the landlord on the holdings and payments of their tenants. This rental lists 198 tenants of an estate in the Civil Parishes of Moville Upper and Lower, Co. Donegal. These parishes are on the eastern side of the Inishowen peninsula. The identity of the estate owner […]
Tenants of Skerries, Co. Dublin in 1823
Small Sources 78: This is a list of over 500 tenants from an 1823 rental of the estate of James Hans Hamilton (1810 – 1863) in the barony of Holmpatrick in North Co. Dublin. The original document is a single large rental book in the National Library of Ireland (Reference Ms. 6134) entitled ‘Rental of […]
Rental of Stewart Estate in Dublin city and county 1797 – 1807
Small Sources No. 77: This is a list of 97 tenants on the Dublin estate of James Stewart from 1797 to 1807. The estate consisted of a mix of urban and rural properties, including Molesworth and Kildare streets in Dublin city and 4 townlands in north county Dublin. The original documents are in the […]
Tenants of Sarsfield Estate, Cork 1817-23
easbySmall Sources No. 76. This is a list of 72 tenants of the Sarsfield Estate in Co. Cork in the period 1817-23. It is in a leather rental book among the Sarsfield estate papers in the National Library of Ireland. The specific file reference is NLI Ms 3638. The Sarsfield family were prominent in the county […]
Tenants of the Wynne estate in Sligo and Leitrim in 1798
Small Sources No. 75: This is a list of 435 tenants of the Wynne estate in Sligo and Leitrim in 1798. The original is among the Wynne Estate papers in the National Library of Ireland (reference NLI Ms. 3311). The family bought the estate, called Hazelwood, in 1722. At the time of this record in […]
Tenants of Putland Estate in Garrycloyne & Templeusque, Co. Cork 1815-25
Small Sources No. 74. This is a list of 50+ tenants of the Putland Estate in the Cork Civil parishes of Garrycloyne and Templeusque (see Fig. 1) between 1815 and 1825. They are in papers held by the National Library of Ireland (Ms. 12,768, 769 and 770) each entitled “Rental of the Estate of George […]
Cork sources on Academia.edu
Readers seeking records in County Cork will be interested in the work of Pat Crowley, who has been extracting local records and publishing them on the website www.academia.edu for many years. The Academia site is “a platform for sharing academic research” for scholars and researchers. Since its initiation in 2010 it has uploaded 40 million papers, […]
Tenants of the Palmer Estate in Rush, Co. Dublin ~1830
Small Sources 73. This is a list of 153 tenants on the estate of Sir W. H. Roger Palmer in and around the coastal town of Rush in North county Dublin. The original document is a single rental book in the National Library of Ireland entitled “A Rental of estate of Sir W. H. Roger […]
