Land, Landowners & Property
Articles of land records, land owners, registry of deeds, surviving property and land deeds will all feature here.
A list of men from Carlow and Laois involved in the Irish National Volunteers in 1914, discovered by a local historian.
Ulster Ancestry is a series of free pages which you can use for your research purposes. These have been sorted by date and detail the document type for your convenience.
Over 100,000 names that appear in the memorial books at the registry of deeds. The Registry of Deeds is located in Henrietta Street, Dublin, Ireland and is a reposity of records of wills, land transactions in Ireland and other deeds from 1709.
Name of every land owner in Ireland 1876 who had at least one acre of land.
"Adventurers for land in Ireland." From "Irish Pedigrees" by John O'Hart, Vol. 2.
Because of the destruction of nineteenth century census returns, surviving land and property records from the period have acquired a somewhat unnatural importance. Irish Times discussion.
Free resource for Irish ancestry, genealogy and family history information. Tens of thousands of free available records online.
Records Ireland is a genealogy service based in Dublin, Ireland. Our services range from single record searching to tracing of your family history.
Undertook the research for, and the publication of, a comprehensive and integrated resource guide to landed estates and historic houses in Connacht and Munster, c. 1700-1914. The aim of the guide is to assist and support researchers working on the social, economic, political and cultural history of these provinces from c.1700 to 1914.
The following individuals owned one acre or more of land in Co. Westmeath, Ireland, the latter part of the 1870s. Of course, many more Irish owned less or none at all, and their names would not appear on this list. Some owned property in Co. Westmeath but lived elsewhere.
A general resource place for all things Waterford genealogy, including censuses, gravestone transcriptions, land records, military records, church records, and newspaper extracts.
The Property Registration Authority (PRA) was established on 4 November 2006 under the provisions of the Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006.
Freeholders' records are lists of people entitled to vote, or of people who voted, at elections. A freeholder was a man who owned his land outright (in fee) or who held it by lease which could be for one or more lives (for example, his own life or for the lives of other people named in the lease).
Genealogy is the study of family ancestry or history. Genealogical records have existed since ancient times. Egyptian hieroglyphics provide records of pharaohs, and the Bible contains numerous genealogy lists including the genealogy of Christ.
The Property Registration Authority (PRA) was established on 4 November 2006 under the provisions of the Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006.
The purpose of this project is to index all of the names that appear in the memorial books at the registry of deeds. The Registry of Deeds is located in Henrietta Street, Dublin, Ireland and is a reposity of records of wills, land transactions in Ireland and other deeds from 1709.
The core business of the Registry of Deeds involves recording the existence of Deeds and conveyances affecting property. A deed recorded in the Registry of Deeds has priority over an unrecorded deed. Priority is fixed in order of the Serial Number allocated on the date of lodgement.
The following individuals owned one acre or more of land in Co. Armagh, Ireland, the latter part of the 1870s. Of course, many more Irish owned less or none at all, and their names would not appear on this list. Some owned property in Co. Armagh but lived elsewhere.
The land survey was actually completed in 1876 and first published in a London book that same year. It only represents those who owned one acre or more. Some owned property in Co. Kilkenny but lived elsewhere.
Welcome to the Landed Estates Web site, a searchable, online database of all Landed Estates in Connacht and Munster, maintained by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway. The Landed Estates Database provides a comprehensive and integrated resource guide to landed estates and historic houses in Connacht and Munster, c. 1700-1914. The aim of this guide is to assist and support researchers working on the social, economic, political and cultural history of Connacht and Munster from c.1700 to 1914.
The following is taken from the Londonderry Standard of 10 April 1861. They tell the story of Derryveagh better than anything I could write. However should you be interested in the evictions that took place a number of books are available which go into much more detail.
Prior to the Cromellian plantations of the latter 17th century, the landowners in County Kilkenny largely consisted of the Old English families who arrived in the wake of the Cambro-Norman invasion in the late 12th and 13th centuries. A third of the lands were in the hands of the Butler dynasty which included the Earl of Ormond.
Contains records that have been transcribed from various churches, parishes and other sources throughout Galway by various volunteers and other sources.
From Coote, C. Sir Statistical survey of the County of Cavan, with observations on the means of improvement drawn up in the year 1801, for the consideration, and under the direction of The Dublin Society, Dublin, Graisberry and Campbell, 1802.
Many of our Irish ancestors were tenant farmers who leased or rented their land directly from a landowner or indirectly from a "middleman." Only a small percentage of people in Ireland owned their land outright (this was called holding your land "in fee.").
Many newcomers to Irish family research find the area of land division in the country to be confusing, to say the least.
Although most of us tend to think of the famine in Ireland as occurring about 1848, contributing factors began long before that date.
Gravestone records, Gravestone photographs, 1901 Census records, 1911 Census records, 1931 Trade Directory records, Birth records, Marriage records, Death records, Lewis' Topographical records, Griffith's Valuation records, and much more.
Gravestone records, Gravestone photographs, 1901 Census records, 1911 Census records, 1931 Trade Directory records, Birth records, Marriage records, Death records, Lewis' Topographical records, Griffith's Valuation records, and much more.
Gravestone records, Gravestone photographs, 1901 Census records, 1911 Census records, 1931 Trade Directory records, Birth records, Marriage records, Death records, Lewis' Topographical records, Griffith's Valuation records, and much more.
Gravestone records, Gravestone photographs, 1901 Census records, 1911 Census records, 1931 Trade Directory records, Birth records, Marriage records, Death records, Lewis' Topographical records, Griffith's Valuation records, and much more.
Gravestone records, Gravestone photographs, 1901 Census records, 1911 Census records, 1931 Trade Directory records, Birth records, Marriage records, Death records, Lewis' Topographical records, Griffith's Valuation records, and much more.
A good deal of prominence was given in 'The Nation' to the report of an "Aggregate Meeting" held in the Music Hall, Lower Abbey Street, on the 20th November 1849, and called on the requisition of "80 dignitaries and 110 curates of the Catholic Church; 22 members of the regular clergy; 120 magistrates; landed proprietors, corporators, and poor law guardians; 200 members of the learned professions; 700 land-owners,and farmers, and 900 merchants, traders and artizans.
At the beginning of 1850 Lucas at length transferred the 'Tablet' to Dublin. At that time the local Tenant Societies, founded by the Callan curates, were spreading over Munster, and a Tenant Protection Society had existed for four years in the North under the auspices of Sharman Crawford, with my old friend Dr. M'Knight for secretary.
The following account of the ancient land laws of Ireland, which has been compiled chiefly from the Brehon Laws, is corroborated in some of its main features by those early English writers who described the native Irish customs from personal observation. It throws much light on the Irish land question of modern times.
On Saturday, August the 7th, 1852, we landed at Kingstown Harbour, and about 11pm, found ourselves on Irish ground for the first time.
In a large folio MS. in the British Museum, press marked, “Additional 4820” are contained copies of several hundred Irish funeral entries. This MS, was apparently transcribed sometime early in the last (18th) century.
This paper is concerned with the story of one of the lesser-known Greens of Dublin. We are all fairly familiar with the more notable ones, such as Oxmantown Green, College Green and St. Stephen's Green, of which the latter alone retains its verdant claim. There was another Green, small, it is true, and aptly called the Little Green, of which no trace now remains except the perpetuation of its name in two unpretentious city streets.
An inquisition taken before the Sheriff of the Co. of Waterford, the Mayor of the City of Waterford, Richard Power and James Bryver, Esqs, the 25th of Sept., 1661, at Waterford aforesaid, upon the oaths of honest and good men.
The names of the people who leased property in Barragh Civil Parish, Co. Carlow are listed alphabetically below, with the name of the townland. The TAB for this parish is reasonably easy to read, you will see some questionmarks as to spellings.
The following are lists of estate records that exist for Co. Clare. There are a few 'categories' of records, rent rolls or leases are probably the most useful for any family history researcher or maps that include tenants names.
The following list is copied from a primary manuscript source, 'Valuation Office House Books (misc.), reference 5.3734' in the National Archives of Ireland (NAI). It includes the names of those householders in Dundalk who had a property value of five pounds and over.
The Tenants of Lord Roden list below has been transcribed from: The Roden Title. Statement of Title of The Right Hon. Robert Earl of Roden to the Manor, Town, and Lands of Dundalk and Other Lands in The County of Louth, in Ireland with The Opinion of the Right Hon. Thomas Lefroy Thereon, Hodges and Smith. Dublin. No Date.
Published in Seanchas Ardmhaca – Journal of the Armagh Dioscescan Society, 1958, Vol. 3, No. 1
Granted to John Heron July 23 (??? ) and omitted by Carew. We have no knowledge of events on the lands comprising the above two proportions previous to 1619. In that year Pynnar found that two small bawns of earth with a pallazado upon them and a ditch about them had been built and near to each a number of houses inhabited with English tenants, 13 families in all able to make 26 men with arms.
Including: 1870s Longford Landowners Griffith's Cancelled Books for Ballymahon Union 1861 Tenants of Hon. L.H. King Harman Assorted Tithe Applotments - Killoe Parish Griffith's Primary Valuation - 1854 Lanesborough 1780
OUTH, Rentals of The Estate of William Meade Smythe Esqre From Sept & Nov 1855-Sept & Nov 1856.
CENSUS SUBSTITUTES: Town of County: DROGHEDA County Town of: Alphabetical List of Landowners in 1870's - Names & Addresses Only -All.