Labourers in Co. Carlow in 1793/4
Small Sources 13: Below is a list of 111 labourers employed on the Vigors Estate at Burgage, near Leighlin Bridge, Co. Carlow in 1793/94. The names are on four separate lists all apparently written by the same farm manager or foreman (based on the handwriting) and included in the Cliff – Vigors Estate Papers […]
Tenants of Quansbury Estate, Kilquain, Galway in 1777-78
Small Sources 4: This is a rental document among the estate papers of Francis Thomas FitzMaurice, 3rd Earl of Kerry, which are held in the Archives Nationales, Paris (Fonds T. Cote 451 (6)). A microfilm copy is in the National Library of Ireland No. P 7239. It shows 35 tenants of the Quansbury Estate which […]
Tipperary & Waterford tenants of the Woulfe Mansfield Estate
Small Sources No. 18: This list of 131 tenants is from the index to a rental of the Woulfe & Mansfield estate in the period 1783–1811.The Woulfe & Mansfield families had separate estates in Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary (Woulfe) and Rathgormuck, Co. Waterford (Mansfield). In 1785 Elizabeth Woulfe married John Mansfield and the estates were […]
