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

Click to access hearth_rolls_of_county_antrim.pdf

 

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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https://durrushistory.com/2017/10/29/1743-command-from-custom-house-dublin-re-hearth-tax-collection/

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/31532

https://durrushistory.com/2017/07/26/1737-fragment-heart-tax-roll/

 

https://durrushistory.com/2017/07/11/1812-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-lo/

 

https://durrushistory.com/2011/10/11/pettys-census-1659-for-hearth-tax-durrus/