The Co. Antrim Rolls give an idea of the scale of the catastrophe inflicted on the Irish People in 1922.

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1792, Return by Thomas Wren, Inspector general of Hearth Money.  Cork with over 76,000 Houses..

 

The Hearth Money Tax rolls recorder ll households by townland even where no tax was paid from c 1650s.  All were destroyed in 1922.

 

From Thomas Newenham, 1809.

 

 

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1743.  Command from Custom House, Dublin re Hearth Tax Collection.

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1737. Fragment Heart Tax Roll. Hearth Tax Rolls for Co. Antrim.

 

1812.  Cork.  Rates of Tax on Hearts and Windows, Greyhounds at £1 per annum, Miscellaneous Dogs (Hounds, Pointers, Setting Dog, Spaniel, Lurcher, Terrier), at 10 shillings, Male Servants. Lodgers, Horses, Geldings, Mares, Mules,  Carriages, Coaches, Berlins, Chariots, Galashes with 4 Wheels and Two Horse Carriages with 2 Wheels. Michael Sullivan/O’Sullivan, Hurrig Sept of O’Sullivans, Bantry, Heart Tax Collector, Alleged Descendant of O’Sullivan Bere.

 

Petty’s census 1659 for hearth tax Durrus

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