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 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 Cloonclare and Killasnet Parishes in Leitrim 1829-36.
Small Sources No.50. This is a list of 173 tenants on the Earl of Leitrim’s Manorhamilton estate in the period 1829-36. The original document (NLI Ms. 16,978) is in the National Library of Ireland among the extensive Leitrim Papers, which contain the records of the Clements family (Earls of Leitrim) from 1749 to 1946. Other rentals […]
Labourers in Lismore, Waterford in 1850.
Small Sources 24. This small list shows 30 Labourers on the Devonshire Estate, Lismore, Co. Waterford in 1850. Lists of workmen are useful as they tend to be difficult to find in the records. The list below is a composite of names extracted from several related documents in a file of accounts of the Devonshire […]
