The Tipperary Antiquarian: Heart Money Rolls- Carrigatogher

Monday, 24 March 2025

Heart Money Rolls- Carrigatogher

In the Hearth Money Rolls 1665
The following names were recorded in Carrigatogher townland (Carrigatohir).
Edm. Walsh Esq
Teige Hogane

By rights that should be it for Carrigatogher, however from analysing the returns I found an entry with “Townland illegible” in the 1666-7 return. That seems to be from when Laffan was transcribing the returns in 1911 and the first person named in that entry is

Edmund Welsh Esq

So I think that this illegible townland is Carrigatogher – the 2nd entry is also Teige Hogane so I am fairly certain.

So this entry in total is

Edmund	Welsh	Esq.
Teige	O'Hogane
Edward	O'Hogane
Dermott	O'Hogane
William	Glissane
Teige	O'Heidhie
James	Butler
John	Powre
Teige	Carroll
Donnogh	Hogane

Generally the first name in a townland seems to be the most important landowner. At least that is my impression and seems to be confirmed here. In this case in the 2nd return Edmund Welsh Esq is recorded as having 5 fireplaces.

Edmund Walsh is the only Esquire recorded in the Hearth Money Rolls for the half-barony so must have been an important and high-status person in the area. There was a Lewis Walsh of Thurles recorded as owning a share in Monroe and some other places in the Civil Survey of 1654-56 Lewis Walsh was the son in law of Mortough Mac-I-brien married to his daughter Honora.

Teige Hogane appears in the two returns and we find O’Heidhie which may be Hynes or more likely Hayden, Gleeson and Carroll as well, all Gaelic Irish names. Power and Butler probably Gaelicised Anglo-Normans.

The next available "Census" for the area is the Tithe Appointment Books 1824 but I haven’t been able to find a return for it.

In the later Griffiths valuation

There are a large number of people recorded, there are still Hogans, Gleesons, Carrolls but interestingly no-longer any Walshs / Welshs. So we don’t know at the moment what happened to that family.

There were also no Butlers, Powers or Haydens / Hynes that I could see.