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Rentals as a resource for Irish family history

This article deals with rentals, which are the records of the landlord on tenants, their holdings,  and their payments.  Although these might appear to be purely business records,  many contain rich family information.  They may be particularly valuable source of family history information for the the 18th and early 19th centuries when other records are […]

Labourers in Doneraile, Cork in 1839/40

Small Sources 29.   This list shows Labourers on the Doneraile Estate in Cork in 1839/40. It includes 21 men, 2 boys and 1 woman.    The names were extracted from a document among the Doneraile Papers  in the National Library of Ireland entitled “Workmen’s accounts book, 18 May 1839 -25 Apr. 1840”  (Ms. 19,726) which shows the dates worked and […]

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