Hearth Money Rolls Etc. and Finding Your Irish Ancestors

The Hearth Money Rolls was a tax levied on the- Kelkenny
basis of the number of hearths in each house.- Limerick
Yep – fireplaces! These rolls listed the- Meath
householders' names, as well as the number of- Tipperary
hearths.The Money Rolls are quite extensive, but- Tyrone
only remnants are still in existence.Tracing Your- Waterford
Irish Family Tree using the Hearth Money Rolls is- Wexford
available for the following Counties and lists thePenders Census - 1659:
barony, surname, forename and townland of theRecords the names of persons with title to land,
individulals liable for paying the tax.the total numbers of English and Irish living in each
- ArmaghTownland, and the principal Irish names in each
- DonegalBarony. Five counties survive and they are:
- Fermanagh- Cavan
- Londonderry- Galway
- Monaghan- Mayo
- Tyrone.- Tyrone
1630 Muster Rolls:- Wicklow
The 160 Muster Rolls are lists of the large1662 Subsidy Rolls:
landlords in Ulster and the names of all theThe 1662 Subsidy Rolls list the nobility, clergy and
able-bodied men that they could assemble to fightlaity who paid a grant in aid to the king. They
if the need arose. They are arranged by countyinclude name and parish and sometimes the
and by district within the county.amount paid and occupation of those who paid.
The 1641 Biiks of Survey and Distribution:Mainly countie in Ulster have survived.
After the wars of the mid seventeeth century,1612 Undertakers:
the English Government needed solid informationThe Undertakers lists those English and Scottish
on land ownership throughout Ireland to carry outlarge landlords granted land in the northern
it's policy of land redistribution. The Books ofcounties of Cavan, Donegal and Fermanagh.
Survey and Distribution record ownership ofCensus Remains:
property Before the Cromwellian and WilliamiteThere are a few census records available for
confiscations.1821, 1831, 1841 and 1851, but they are all just
Civil Survey 1654-1656:remnants. 1821 has only County Cavan, 1831 has
Another record of land ownership in 1640. Itnearly all the parishes in County Londonderry,
contains a great deal of descriptive information asvirtually none that I could find for 1841 and the
well as details of wills and deeds relating to land1851 census survives for a few Parishes in
title. It has survived for lonely 12 counties:County Antrim.
- CorkThere is a census return for 1766 that was
- Kerrycarried out by the Church of Ireland that still
- Donegalsurvives. It is divided up by Church of Ireland
- DublinParish - which virtually match the boundaries of
- Kildarethe civil parishes of that time.