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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 the Sandes estate in North Kerry 1797 – 1828.

Small Sources No. 57:  This is a list of 240 tenants from the index to a rental of the Sandes Estate in North Kerry for the period 1797 to 1828. The original document is in the National Library of Ireland (NLI Ms. 1792).  It is a large ledger which, in addition to the index below,  […]

Tenants of Earl of Leitrim in Carrigallen Parish, Co. Leitrim in 1829.

Small Sources No. 40. This is a list of 137 tenants on the Earl of Leitrim’s Bohey estate in 1829.  An extract from the listing is in Fig 1. The circumstance would appear to be the appointment of a new land agent, Berry Norris, who compiled a statement of what was owed by tenants when […]

Tenants of the Trant Estate in Dingle, Co. Kerry in 1791

Small Sources 27.   This rental of 63 tenants in the Dingle area of County Kerry is extracted from the Trant Papers in the National Library of Ireland collection.   The Trant family were originally from this area of Co. Kerry but moved in the early 1800s to an estate in Dovea, Co. Tipperary (see below). They […]

Tenants in Pudding Lane, Thurles, Co. Tipperary 1816/17

Small Sources 21:  These 33 people were tenants of Thomas Lenegan in Pudding Lane, Thurles, Co. Tipperary  in 1816/17.  This is one of the main streets in the town of Thurles and is marked with a red dot in the above map.   The street  has since been renamed as ‘O’Donovan Rossa Street’.  It is unclear if […]

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