Family History
Report (page 5)
The earliest available Land/Property Records
which we have for the area in which the family
lived were the Tithe Applotment Books of the mid
1820's. Tithe was a tax on all agricultural land
(originally a tenth of the produce) and it was paid
by people of all religious denominations towards
the upkeep of the Established Church of that day
(Church of Ireland). The tax aroused much
resentment on religious grounds as the country was
four-fifths Roman Catholic and the distress that
followed the Napoleonic Wars forced the replaced
payment in kind by payment in cash by local
landlords. The information differs from parish to
parish, but in most part gives the name of the
tithe payer, the acreage of his farm subject to
tithe, and the amount of tithe paid. Taken together
the Tithe Applotment Books virtually form a census
of landholders around the year 1830, a few years
before the massive emigration resulting from the
"Great Famine." These records do not include a list
of the householders in rural or urban areas, they
contain only the names of those who occupied
tithable land.
The Tithe Applotment Land Records for the old
Civil Parish of Kilmacrehy (Liscannor) are dated
1826. These list your great-great-great-grandfather
Patrick Reidy leasing/holding 2 acres of 1st
quality land, and 5 acres of 3rd quality land which
brought his total land holding at Beaghy in 1826 to
7 acres.
We are enclosing with this report the relevant
extract said land records.
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