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, […]