Tenants of O’Hara Estate, Sligo 1796
Small Sources 65: This is a list of 212 tenants from a rental ledger among the O’Hara Papers in the National Library of Ireland (NLI Ms. 36,318). It is titled ‘A rental of Chas. O’Hara Esq’s Estate in the county of Sligo for the half-year ended 1st November 1796’. The extensive O’Hara estate papers in […]
Tenants of Lord Doneraile in Cork and Waterford 1765
Small Sources 60A: This is a list of 100 tenants of Lord Doneraile on parts of his Cork and Waterford estates in 1765. More specifically it lists 60 tenants on his estate in the Manor of Doneraile; and a further 40 in his Kilmeaden estate, barony of Middlethird, Co. Waterford. These rentals are among […]
Tenants of DeVesci estate in Queen’s County (Laois) 1775-92
Small Sources 61: This is a list of 112 tenants from a ledger among the DeVesci Papers in the National Library of Ireland (NLI Ms. 34,492). The index is a long (approx 14 x 50cm) book (see picture above right) which is listed in the NLI catalogue as “a larger folio rent ledger for DeVesci […]
Marriages in Killanerin and Gorey, Wexford 1800-1807
Small Sources No. 31: This is a list of 144 Catholic marriages from 1800-1807 in the Parish of Kilanerin, Co. Wexford that have survived in a priest’s notebook found in the Franciscan Library, Killiney, Co.Dublin (Reference Ms.C104 – Marriages). The Catholic records of Wexford in the early 1800s are particularly poor, mainly due to […]
Kilkenny Women Flax-spinners in 1827
Small Sources 26. Evidence of women in Irish genealogical sources is unfortunately sparse, and those that do occur are often listed only as e.g. ‘Widow Murphy’. We list here 83 women receiving payments in 1827 for spinning and weaving of flax. The documents are in the Bessborough papers in the National Library of Ireland Ms […]
Tenants of Prittie Estate, Tipperary & Offaly 1826.
Small Sources 17. This document lists tenants of 57 holdings on the estates of Hon. Francis A. Prittie during March and May 1826. It lists 71 names as several are in joint tenancies. It indicates the townland, rent and arrears for each. Only the rent amount is shown here as an indication of the holding […]
