Some Queen’s County farmers in 1821 and a tale of a hound
Small Sources 69: Estate papers are an intriguing mix of the myriad documents generated by a family and their staff in the management of their estate and its tenants, and in their own daily lives, often over several generations. The contents typically comprise rentals, deeds, personal and business correspondence, staff records, maps and wills. While […]
Tenants in Inch and Holycross parishes, Tipperary 1829/30
Small Sources 43. This list of 124 tenants is from a rent book of the Lidwell estate in Co. Tipperary for the period 1829-30. The document is in the National Library of Ireland (NLI Mss. 9480) and is titled “Brown, of Clonboy, Papers: Rentals of Cormackstown and Clonmore, Co. Tipperary, the estate of Robert Lidwell, 1826-33′. […]
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 […]
Tenants of Trant Estate, Dovea, Co. Tipperary 1837
Small Sources 19: This is a list of 91 tenants from the index to a rental of the Trant estate in Dovea, Co. Tipperary (Civil Parish of Inch) in 1837. The original is in National Library of Ireland Ms. 1757. Information on the Trant family and their estates is in the Landed Estates Database. The […]
