Servants of CastleDurrow, Queen’s County (Laois) 1720-48

Small Sources 59A: This list contains 126 servants employed by the Flower estate at Durrow, Co. Laois (previously Queen’s County) from 1720 to 1748. The records are on loose-leaf pages within the Flower Estate papers in the National Library of Ireland (NLI Ms 11,461). It can be presumed that there were also farm-hands […]
Catholic Records of Rathangan, Wexford 1807-1811.

Small Sources No. 59A. This is a significant blog as it sets out the Catholic Church records of Rathangan, Co. Wexford for the period from December 1807 to September 1811. The records for this parish which are already known to exist start in 1803, but there are none between June 1806 and 1813. These […]
Servants and Tradesmen of Lord Louth, Tallanstown, Co. Louth 1801-03

Small Sources 54: This is a list of 148 servants, tradesmen and labourers employed by Thomas Oliver Plunkett, 11th Lord Louth in the period 1801-03. Their place of employment was Louth Hall in the Civil parish of Tallanstown, near Ardee, County Louth. Logically, most of these workers (and particularly the labourers) would have resided in the […]
Poor list in Killinick, Co. Wexford in 1813-20

Small Sources 10: This is a list of payments made by the Church of Ireland to the poor in the parish register of Killinick, Co. Wexford. The list is in the Register of Killinick Parish which is in the National Archives of Ireland (ref M 5063). The lists are for Killinick and the neighbouring parishes […]