Estate Records for the Irish Famine

By

Andres Eiriksson and Cormac O Grada

Irish Famine Network

Department of Modern History

Trinity College

Dublin 2

Ireland

 

Landlord

Year

Type of record

Library

Manuscript

Arran

1720-1869

6L

NL

MS 14087

Arran

1837-56

2P, 5D, 7L

T

MSS 7604-13

Arran

1837-56

8D, 9R

T

MSS 7604-13

Arran

1840-49

3SV

NL

MSS 14075-9

Arran

1850

6L

NL

MS 14089

Arran

1850-52

3V

NL

MS 14086

Blake

1772-1863

6D

NL

O 16847-98

Blake

1851

4

NL

16F.1

Blosse

1844

1, 3SV

NL

MS 2725

Dillon

1842-75

4T

NL

16M.4-6

Domville

1833-51

1

NL

MS 11816

Erne

18-20c

6D

P

D 1939/12

Erne

1834-1910

1

P

D 1939/10

Kirwan

1842

6D

NL

MS 4585

Kirwan

1852

4

NA

1078/2/3

Knox

1845-46

1

NL

MS 3077

Lindsay

1848-55

1

NL

MS 5814

Lynch-Blosse

1844

3S

NL

MS 2725

O’Donel

1775-1869

2M

NL

MS 5738

O’Donel

1855

1

NL

MS 5740

O’Malley

1845

3SV

NA

M 1457

O’Malley

1852

1

NA

M 3442

Palmer

1840-49

3V , 4

NL

MSS 14075-9

Palmer

1849

4

NA

1174/3/1-4

Explanation of Record types

Code

Type of record

1

Rent rolls giving names of tenants with rent for year or half year, often with supplementary information.

2M

Tenancy returns. Mode of tenancy whether yearly, at will etc.

2P

Petitions

3S

Surveys and reports , descriptions of estates

3V

Valuations descriptions of estates

4

Maps

4T

Maps with names of tenants

5D

Domestic and Farm accounts

6D

Deeds

6L

Leases

7L

Correspondence from landlords

8D

Diaries and Memoranda, farms and demesnes.

9R

Information on relief work and relief committees.

Libraries

Code

Type of record

NA

National Archives

NL

National Library

P

Public Records Office for Northern Ireland

T

Trinity College.