Tenants of the Roebeck Estate Wicklow/Kildare 1820-’40
Small Sources 71. This is a list of 133 tenants on the estate of Baron de Roebeck on the Wicklow – Kildare border. It includes properties in 12 townlands in these counties, but particularly in Crehelp and Lemonstown in Co. Wicklow, and Ballybought and Swordlestown in Co. Kildare. The original document is a single […]
Tenants of DeVesci estate in Queen’s County (Laois) 1775-92
Small Sources 61: This is a list of 112 tenants from a ledger among the DeVesci Papers in the National Library of Ireland (NLI Ms. 34,492). The index is a long (approx 14 x 50cm) book (see picture above right) which is listed in the NLI catalogue as “a larger folio rent ledger for DeVesci […]
Servants and Tradesmen of Lord Louth, Tallanstown, Co. Louth 1801-03
Small Sources 54: This is a list of 148 servants, tradesmen and labourers employed by Thomas Oliver Plunkett, 11th Lord Louth in the period 1801-03. Their place of employment was Louth Hall in the Civil parish of Tallanstown, near Ardee, County Louth. Logically, most of these workers (and particularly the labourers) would have resided in the […]
