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Servants of CastleDurrow, Queen’s County (Laois) 1720-48

Small Sources 59A: This list contains 126 servants employed by the Flower estate at  Durrow, Co. Laois  (previously Queen’s County) from 1720 to 1748.     The records are on loose-leaf pages within the Flower Estate papers  in the National Library  of Ireland  (NLI Ms 11,461).    It can be presumed that there were also farm-hands […]

Flax Growers in Shanagolden, Limerick. 1808

Small Sources 16: This list is of 26 persons who purchased flax seed from the Monteagle estate in the Shanagolden area of county Limerick in 1808.  The estate was owned by the Spring-Rice family whose titles included Lord Monteagle.  This list is from the correspondence of Stephen Edward Rice and the original is in the […]

Labourers in Shanagolden, Co. Limerick 1808.

Small Sources 3:  This is a list of 86 labourers working on the Spring-Rice Estate, Mount Trenchard, Limerick (Shanagolden area) on 5 dates from April to July 1808.  The Spring-Rice family held the title Lord Monteagle,  and their Limerick estate was in the barony of Shanid where they held land in the parishes of Kilmoylan, […]

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