Hearth Money Rolls - Castletown

 

 

In the Hearth Money Rolls 1665
The following names were recorded in Castletown townland (Castletowne / Liskelly ).

Humphry	Dymock
Robert	Dymock
Donnogh	O'Tuohy
Dermott	O'Tuohy
Wm	O'Tuogh
Robert	Droghane
James	Walsh
John	Oultagh
Connor	O'Tuohy

Also in the Hearth Money Rolls is a location called Liskelly and this actually was part of the modern day Castletown townland so we will include here as well.

Recorded in 1665 are

Henry	Felton
Wm	Fox
Dermott	O'Shanaghane
Edmond	O'Glessine
Hugh	O'Neill
Willm	Sumer
John	Harris

And in 1666/67

Henry	Felton
William	Haske
Dermott	Shinahane
John	Broughane
Hugh	Neale
Edmund	Glisheene
William	Summer
Ellice	Harris

 

Generally the first name in a townland seems to be the most important landowner. At least that is my impression.

In Castletown we have two Dymocks? I’m not sure of the origin of this name, I’d imagine it is a settler name. Then we have Gaelic or Gaelicised Anglo-Normans such as Tuohy and Walsh. There is also Droghane which I’d say is Gaelic and Oultagh which may refer to an Ulsterman.

In the Liskelly part we have

Henry Felton – he was an ancestor of the Watson-O’Briens who were large landowners in Garrykennedy. See Mikie Joy Archive - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GuwSg71hm8r_T45PzqljGW9V9i-c3lKX/view

 

Dermot Shanahan, Edmund Gleeson, William Summer & Hugh O’Neill are common to both. There is a John Harris in 65 and an Ellice Harris in 66-67.

One suggestion is that Summer could be Seymour? There is also a Haske, Fox and Broughane (could that be linked to Droghane in the Castletown record?)

The next available "Census" for the area is the Tithe Appointment Books 1824 – I only have a scan of this from the Mikie Joy archive.

Clifford & partners

Daniel Molony

? Molony

Patt Carney

Conor McCormack

Mary Quigley

Conor Sullivan & partners

Conor Sullivan & Dunlea

A Parker Esq Plantation

? near Tomlough

Daniel Slattery

Judy? Toohy

Martin McMahon

Michael Sullivan

Mrs Toohy

William Ralph

? McMahon

? ? Gabbett

William Hogan

Anthony Parker Esq

Hill division

Anthony Parker Esq

Lower division

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16ghvJk9x432Zy6zSD3p_0bxT5SC8BtpB/view

Of the Hearth names – only Touhy seems to still be in place in the townland. Could they be descendants of the 1660s Touhys?

In the later Griffiths valuation; Brohan reappears in the townland and Tuohy continues from the Hearth Money Rolls.

See the 1901 census

https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tipperary/Castletownarra/Gastletown/
And 1911 census
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Tipperary/Castletown/Castletown/

Unfortunately the Brohans & Tuohys don’t carry on into these two censuses but if you can trace back to the Griffiths valuation you may have a possible link back to the Hearth Money Rolls.

My own analysis of the rolls highlighting the Arra records.
https://thetipperaryantiquarian.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-hearth-money-rolls-in-half-barony.html?