The Tipperary Antiquarian

Here is a transcription of a portion of the Rent Roll from the estate of Anthony Parker dated May 1776.  It gives a snap-shot of some of the people living in the area. The original is housed in the National Library in Dublin and a copy of it was kindly shown to me my Arra descendant John Murray.  If anyone needs a high res version of the scan I can email them one for research purposes only. Click below HERE  

  We nearly all know the story about the Fourcourts being burned down during the Civil War in 1922 and the priceless loss of records. However in Tipperary we are extremely fortunate in that in 1911 Dr. Thomas Laffan made a copy of one such record that was destroyed in 1922 - known now as the Hearth Money Records - 1665-6-7. It records a tax that was imposed on every fireplace in the country and was "payable by practically all the householders in the country. The exemptions, applicable only to the poorest of the people, were granted too freely which led to amending the Act of 1665. Copies of the rolls have been wholly or partially preserved for eleven counties in the north and east of the country and for Co. Sligo, but for the rest of Ireland there are none extant except those for Co. Tipperary". ( MacLysaght, North Munster Studies, 533). So this record will include a far larger number of people in it than the Civil Survey circa 1654 or the Pender Census of 1659. It is...