1820's 12 Page Farmer Book With List Of Irish Tenant Names From King's County Ireland- Ancestry Information

Circa 1820’s, A 12-page book of recorded fees for pastures, grain, and animal rearing by the towns people in Offaly, Ireland of Potato crops and other grains harvested. List’s locations, names of individuals and amounts paid to the landlord for the use of the land. Staining, fading, and toning but most names are legible. The date would be somewhere in the early 19th to late 18th Century. Paper is watermarked with a Mermaid holding a trident with a cross above the surround. Lined and 18th century. 6.6 by 4 inches.
Estimate: $75-$100
Reference: 204-55

Ballycumber Town in County Offaly, Ireland; County Offaly (Irish: Contae Uíbh Fhailí) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Midlands Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Uí Failghe and was formerly known as King's County. Offaly County Council is the local authority for the county. The population of the county is 78,003 according to the 2016 census. One of the earliest known settlements in County Offaly is at Boora bog which dates to the Mesolithic era. An excavation here provides evidence of a temporary settlement as no structures were found at the site. Stone axes, arrow heads and blades were discovered which date to between 6,800 – 6,000 BCE. The Dowris Hoard dating from the Late Bronze Age was found in a bog at Dowris, Whigsborough near Birr. It is the largest collection of Bronze Age objects ever found in Ireland. It includes more than 200 items of which roughly 190 are extant, 111 in the National Museum of Ireland and 79 in the British Museum. Forty-four spearheads were found, forty-three axes, twenty-four trumpets, and forty-four crotals (a kind of bell or chime instrument, unique to Ireland). A bronze bucket was also found, it was constructed of sheets of bronze riveted together, this item is an imported item, two other buckets were also found, and these are presumed to be native copies. After Christianization, the monastic complex of Clonmacnoise was erected at the River Shannon near Shannon bridge. It is today a significant tourist destination. The county itself was formed following the Tudor plantations of Laois and Offaly in an attempt by the English Crown to expand its sphere of influence in Ireland which had declined following the Norman Conquest of Ireland. Both Laois (Leix) and Offaly (Uí Failghe) were petty kingdoms in Gaelic Ireland located just outside the Pale (a region around Dublin and the mid-east of Ireland that remained loyal to the English Crown following the Norman Conquest). The older kingdoms of Leix and Uí Failghe are not coterminous with the present-day counties that were formed. The Kingdom of Uí Failghe from which the name Offaly is derived, was ruled by the Ó Conchobhair Failghe (anglicized as: O'Conor Faly) whose territory extended from the east of the county into north Kildare. The Kingdom of Firceall ruled by the O'Molloy clan constituted much of the centre of the county. The Kingdom of Firceall was part of the Kingdom of Meath while Uí Failghe was part of the Kingdom of Leinster. Much of the south of the present-day county (as well as northern County Tipperary) was ruled by Ó Cearbhaill of Éile (anglicized as: O'Carroll Ely). Ely formed part of the Kingdom of Munster. These petty kingdoms were swept aside by the Tudor plantations. In 1556, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland created "King's County", named after Philip, the then King of Ireland. This replaced the old Kingdoms with Baronies and the present-day County System. Despite the county's name being upheld as Offaly through the 2001 Local Government Act, no legislation was ever enacted after independence explicitly changing the name from King's County, the name formally established under the 1898 Local Government Act which continued to have legal effect. Science: George Johnstone Stoney from Birr introduced the term electron in 1891.
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Notes: See photos, toned, stained, faded portions, but names are legible

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