Newtown townland, Kilkeedy civil parish, county Limerick
Valuation Office
Griffith's Valuation
Newtown is on Pages 29-33 in the printed version and images 168039-43 at Irish Origins.
Maps
Map dated 1905 and Map dated 1930.
Valuation Books
This collection of pages photographed in the Valuation Office on 21
October 2014 lists the occupiers of the townland of Newtown up
to 1971.
Some of these images could be more clearly focussed. Apologies.
There is a gap of eight years between Griffith's Valuation in 1850
and the first manuscript volume dated 1858. Wholesale renumbering of
plots took place during this period, increasing the total number of
holdings in Newtown from 58 to 67. One manuscript book for Newtown for
an unspecified period of years was officially recorded as missing.
Valuation Office staff said on 21 October 2014 that the missing book
had been found.
(1858-1862)
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Nos. 1-2d
Nos. 1-2d (retaken)
Nos. 2e-6 (O'Brien)
Nos. 6 (subtenants)-8b
Nos. 8c-11
Nos. 12-15
Nos. 16-20
Nos. 21-7
Nos. 28-30 (Creggaun 1-3)
Nos. 30 (Creggaun 4-16)
Nos. 31-2
Nos. 33-8
Nos. 39-43Ee
Nos. 43Ef-45
Nos. 46-48a
Nos. 48b-51
Nos. 52-4
Nos. 55-58d
Nos. 58e-58o
Nos. 58p-59 (start)
Nos. 59 (end)-63
Nos. 64-67
Totals
(1862-4)
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Nos. 1-2
Nos. 3-6Aa (page skipped)
Nos. 6Ab-8b
Nos. 8c-11
Nos. 12-15 (page skipped)
Nos. 16-20
Nos. 21-27Ab
Nos. 27Ac-30 (Creggaun 1-5)
Nos. 30 (Creggaun 6-16)
Nos. 31-2
Nos. 33-38 (plus new 68)
Nos. 39-43Ee
Nos. 43Ef-45
Nos. 46-48a
Nos. 48b-51
Nos. 52-4
Nos. 55-58d
Nos. 58e-58o
Nos. 58p-59 (start)
Nos. 59 (end)-63
Nos. 64-7
Totals
(1864-76)
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Nos. 1-4
Nos. 4a-6Cc
Nos. 6Cd-8
Nos. 9-14
Nos. 15-17
Nos. 18-24
Nos. 25-8
Nos. 29-30 (Creggaun 1-7)
Nos. 30 (Creggaun 8-16)-31
Nos. 32-5
Nos. 36-41
Nos. 42-3
Nos. 44-5
Nos. 46-48b
Nos. 48c-52
Nos. 53-5
Nos. 56-58d
Nos. 58e-58o
Nos. 58p-59
Nos. 60-63
Nos. 64-8
Totals
(1876-82)
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Nos. 1-4
Nos. 5-6
Nos. 7-12
Nos. 13-16
Nos. 17-20
Nos. 21-6
Nos. 27-9
Nos. 30-1
Nos. 32-6
Nos. 37-42
Nos. 43-45c (no 45d)
Nos. 45e-47b
Nos. 47a-50
Nos. 51-4
Nos. 55-58d (no 58e or 58f)
Nos. 58g-59
Nos. 60-1 (no 62)
Nos. 63-8
Tervoe Nos. 1-2
Tervoe Nos. 3-6
(1882-9)
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Nos. 1-4
Nos. 5-6
Nos. 7-12
Nos. 13-16
Nos. 17-20
Nos. 21-6
Nos. 27-9
Nos. 30-1
Nos. 32-5
Nos. 36-9
Nos. 40-45c (no 45d)
Nos. 45e-46
Nos. 47-50
Nos. 51-3
Nos. 54-7
Nos. 58a-58h
Nos. 58i-59
Nos. 60-61 (no 62)
Nos. 63-8
(1889-1906)
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Nos. 1-4
Nos. 5-6F
Nos. 6e-9
Nos. 10-14
Nos. 15-17
Nos. 18-21AB
Nos. 21Ba-26
Nos. 27-9
Nos. 30-1
Nos. 31a-34
Nos. 35-8
Nos. 39-43
Nos. 44-5
Nos. 46-8
Nos. 48a-50B
Nos. 50Aa-52
Nos. 53a-56a (no 56b)
Nos. 56c-58d
Nos. 58e-58n
Nos. 58o-60B
Nos. 60Ac-64
Nos. 65-8
(1906-17)
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Carrigogunnell Nos. 1-6
Newtown Nos. 1-3
Nos. 4-6BCa (Churchfield)
Nos. 6E-8
Nos. 9-13ABa
Nos. 13Bb-16
Nos. 17-20
Nos. 21-6
Nos. 27-9
No. 30 (Creggaun 1-13)
No. 30 (Creggaun 14-16)
No. 31
Nos. 32-4
Nos. 35-8
Nos. 39-44
Nos. 45-47a
Nos. 47b-50Aa
Nos. 50Ab-51
Nos. 52-3
Nos. 54-5
Nos. 56-58d
Nos. 58e-59
Nos. 60-1 (no 62)
Nos. 63-67
No. 68
(1917-33)
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Nos. 1-4
Nos. 5-6F
Nos. 6G-9
Nos. 10-15
Nos. 16-19
Nos. 20-5
Nos. 26-29
No. 30 (Creggaun 1-16)
No. 31
Nos. 32-36A
Nos. 36B-41
Nos. 42-45a
Nos. 45b-48c
Nos. 48A-50Ba
Nos. 51-3
Nos. 54-57ABa
Nos. 58a-58g (no 58h)
Nos. 58i-61 (no 62)
Nos. 63-67
No. 68
(1933-71)
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Nos. 1-4
Nos. 5-6F
Nos. 6G-9Aa
Nos. 9Ba-14
Nos. 15-16
Nos. 17-19
Nos. 20-24
Nos. 25-29
No. 30
No. 31
Nos. 32-36A
Nos. 36B-41
Nos. 42-45a
Nos. 45e-48
Nos. 49-51A
Nos. 51B-53A
Nos. 54-56a
Nos. 57-59B
Nos. 59C-60
Nos. 61-65
Nos. 66-7
Totals
Registry of Deeds
On 24 Feb 1904, George Taylor and many of his tenants sold their
interests in sites in Newtown for council houses to Limerick no. 1
Rural District Council. Some or all of these transactions may
have merely been increasing the sizes of the gardens attached to
existing council houses.
The sales are registered in the Registry of Deeds (1904 Book 12 Deeds
21 to 31), where Deed 21 is an overall arrangement concerning the new
accomodation road built in Newtown at the same time, and deeds 22 to 31
are involve single tenants.
Deed 21 reads as follows:
O'Brien & ors. to O'Brien & ors.
To the registrar appointed by act of Parliament for registering deeds wills leases and so forth in Ireland:
a memorial of an indenture made the 20th day of February one thousand
nine hundred and four between Michael O'Brien, James Garvey, Daniel
Bresnihan, George Roberts, Patrick Garvey, John Garvey, Thomas
McNamara, Patrick McNamara, Fergus Massy, John McNamara, Patrick
Byrnes, farmers, Margaret O'Dea, widow, all of Newtown in the county of
Limerick, Thomas Dundon of Barnakyle, Edward Dundon of Ballinvealla and
James Dundon of Prospect Hall, all in the said county of Limerick,
farmers, of the first part, George Taylor of Holly Park in the said
county Esquire of the second part and the said Michael O'Brien, Patrick
Byrnes, Thomas Dundon, Michael O'Dea and George Roberts junior of
Newtown aforesaid and the said Edward Dundon of Ballinvealla aforesaid
farmer therein and hereinafter called the said Trustees of the third
part whereby after reciting as therein said indenture of which this is
a memorial witnessed that in consideration of the sum of one hundred
pounds then paid by the said George Taylor to the said trustees they
the said Michael O'Brien, James Garvey, Daniel Bresnihan, George
Roberts, Patrick Garvey, John Garvey, Thomas McNamara, Patrick
McNamara, Fergus Massy, John McNamara, Patrick Byrnes, Margaret O'Dea,
Thomas Dundon, Edward Dundon and James Dundon parties thereto of the
first part did thereby severally each for himself or herself and so far
as related to the acts or defaults of himself or herself and his or her
own heirs executors administrators and assigns only and not further or
otherwise covenant with the said Michael O'Brien, Patrick Byrnes,
Thomas Dundon, Michael O'Dea, George Roberts junior and Edward Dundon,
the said trustees to pay to them the said trustees or the survivors of
survivor of them or other the trustees or trustee of said presents for
the time being yearly and every year forever so long as all or any of
the tenancies then severally held by them the said covenantors should
subsist and also in the event of all or any of the said tenancies being
purchased by the said several covenantors under the Land Purchase Acts
the several and respective sums set opposite their names in the
schedule therein (and hereunto) annexed the first payments of said
several sums to be made on or before the first day of January in the
year one thousand nine hundred and five with an equal payment to be
made on or before the same date in each and every year thereafter
provided always and it was thereby covenanted and declared by and
between the parties thereto for themselves and their assigns as follows:
1. that the existing trustees of said indenture or the survivors or
survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor
shall have from time to time as may be necessary and required the power
of appointing new trustees of said indenture such appointment to be
made in writing under the hand of the persons or person for the time
being entitled to make such appoointment
2. that the receipt of any one of the trustees for the time being of
said indenture shall be a legal discharge for the payments of any money
so to be paid under the said indenture as aforesaid
3. that the said trustees in their discretion shall apply the said sum
of one hundred pounds in the proper and sufficient repair of the said
accommodation road as aforesaid and if the said sum of one hundred
pounts shall not be sufficient for the said purpose it shall be lawful
for the said trustees to apply the said yearly sums so to be paid as
aforesaid until the said accommodation road has been well and
sufficiently repaired through its entire length and if there shall
remain any balance of the said sum of one hundred pounds in the hands
of the said trustees after the said road has been put into such repair
then the said trustees shall apply the same in manner provided in the
next paragraph for the appreciation of the annual sums to be received
by the said trustees
4. that the said trustees shall in their discretion apply the annual
sums received by them for defraying the expenses of the maintenance and
upkeep of the said accommodation road and if at any time hereafter the
maintenances and upkeep of said accommodation road shall not in any one
year cost the whole sum set out in the said schedule (namely the sum of
eleven pounds seventeen shillings) then it shall be lawful for the said
trustees to abate proportionately for the next ensuing year the several
sums set out in the said schedule and together amounting to the said
sum according to the actual expenditure in the repair of said
accommodation road in any such one year in which the said expenditure
shall be less than the said sum of eleven pounds seventeen shillings.
5. The said trustees shall not be called upon to account for or vouch
in any way the expenditure of the said sum of one hundred pounds or
said whole yearly sum of eleven pounds and seventeen shillings.
And as to the due execution of said deed by said Michael O'Brien same
is witnessed by John Dundon solicitor Limerick and Denis O'Loughlin
solicitor's clerk, Limerick and as to the due execution of said deed
and this memorial respectively by the said Thomas Dundon same are
witnessed by said John Dundon and said Denis O'Loughlin and as to the
due execution of said James Garvey, Daniel Bresnihan, George Roberts
and Patrick Garvey, same is witnessed by Michael O'Brien, farmer,
Newtown, county Limerick and as to the due execution of said John
Garvey, Thomas McNamara, Patrick McNamara, Fergus Massy, John McNamara,
Patrick Byrnes, Margaret O'Dea, Michael O'Dea and George Roberts
junior, same is witnessed by said Michael O'Brien and Thomas Dundon,
farmer, Barnakyle, and as to the execution of said deed by Edward
Dundon, same is witnessed by said Thomas Dundon
Thomas Dundon Seal
Signed and sealed in presence of by the said Thomas Dundon, John
Dundon, solicitor, Limerick, Denis O'Loughlin, solicitor's clerk,
Limerick.
|
Rate per acre |
Yearly amount |
| Names of occupying tenants |
L. |
s. |
d. |
L. |
s. |
d. |
| Michael O'Brien |
|
1 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Thomas Dundon |
|
1 |
3 |
2 |
7 |
6 |
| James Garvey |
|
1 |
3 |
|
5 |
0 |
| Daniel Bresnihan |
|
1 |
3 |
|
3 |
3 |
| Margaret O'Dea |
|
1 |
1.5 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
| George Roberts |
|
1 |
0 |
|
9 |
0 |
| Edward Dundon |
|
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| James Dundon |
|
1 |
0 |
|
10 |
0 |
| Daniel Bresnihan |
|
1 |
0 |
|
1 |
0 |
| Daniel Bresnihan |
|
|
6 |
|
1 |
6 |
| Patrick Garvey |
|
|
6 |
|
3 |
6 |
| John Garvey |
|
|
6 |
|
3 |
6 |
| Thomas McNamara |
|
|
6 |
|
1 |
9 |
| Patrick McNamara |
|
|
6 |
|
2 |
3 |
| Michael O'Brien |
|
|
6 |
|
15 |
0 |
| Fergus Massy |
|
|
6 |
|
3 |
6 |
| George Roberts |
|
|
6 |
|
4 |
6 |
| John McNamara |
|
|
3 |
|
1 |
7.5 |
| George Roberts |
|
|
3 |
|
6 |
6 |
| Fergus Massy |
|
|
3 |
|
4 |
4.5 |
| Michael O'Brien |
|
|
3 |
|
7 |
6 |
| Patrick Byrnes |
|
|
3 |
|
4 |
6 |
| Daniel Bresnihan |
|
|
3 |
|
1 |
0 |
|
Total |
11 |
17 |
0 |
[The total is out by one pound, so one of the figures in the pounds column under yearly amount must have been mistranscribed.]
The above named Denis O'Loughlin maketh oath and saith that he is a
subscribing witness to the deed of which the above writing is a
memorial and to said memorial also and saith that he was present and
saw said deed and memorial respectively duly executed by the above
named Thomas Dundon and that the same Denis O'Loughlin subscribed to
said deed and memorial respectively as a witness thereunto is this
deponent's proper name and handwriting
Denis O'Loughlin
sworn before me this twenty-second day of February 1904 at William
Street in the city of Limerick a justice of the peace for said city and
I know deponent John Clune J.P.
A true copy. Nineteen folios. [illegible signature].
Deed 28, for example, is Margaret O'Dea's individual deed:
To the registrar appointed by act of Parliament for registering deeds wills and so forth in Ireland:
a memorial of a receipt bearing date of thirtieth day of January 1904
and signed by George Taylor of Holly Park, Clarina in the County of
Limerick Esquire and Margaret O'Dea of Newtown, Clarina, in the county
of Limerick, widow, whereby the said George Taylor and the said
Margaret O'Dea acknowledged that they had received from the Limerick
No. 1 Rural District Council the sum of ten pounds sixteen shillings
and six pounds respectively as the price of all their respective
estates and interests in all that parcel of the townland of Newtown in
the Barony of Pubblebrien in the county of Limerick containing two
roods statute measure or thereabouts and which receipt is stated
therein to have been given for the purpose of granting releasing and
conveying all their respective estates and interests and the estates
and interests of all parties claiming under or through them in the said
parcel of land to the said Council in pursuance of the provisions in
that behalf contained in the Labourers (Ireland) Acts 1893 to 1896 and
the acts incorporated therewith. And the execution of said
receipt by the said George Taylor is witnessed by Francis Jones of
Norton Garth Tidmouth Devonshire England Gentleman and the execution of
said receipt and this memorial respectively by the said Margaret O'Dea
is witnessed by Matthew McCoy of 100 George Street in the city of
Limerick solicitor and Michael O'Sullivan of Thomondgate in said city
Law Clerk.
Margaret O'Dea (seal).
Signed and sealed by the said Margaret O'Dea in presence of:
Matthew McCoy
Michael O'Sullivan
I the within named Michael O'Sullivan make oath and say that I am a
subscribing witness to the receipt within mentioned and also to the
within memorial and that I was present and saw the said receipt duly
executed by the within named Margaret O'Dea and that I was present and
saw the within memorial duly executed by the said Margaret O'Dea and I
say that the name Michael O'Sullivan subscribed as witness to the
execution of said receipt and said memorial respectively is my proper
name and handwriting
Michael O'Sullivan
Sworn before me this 20th day of February 1904 at Glentworth Street in
the City of Limerick, a justice of the peace for said city and I know
the deponent
John Guinane.
Valuation office records show that the Limerick Board of Guardians
first acquired half an acre in plot 21B from Margaret O'Dea in 1889 and
that the occupier of the house and offices built on this site was Denis
Gavan. The second half acre acquired under the 1904 deed doubled
the size of Gavan's holding.
