Ireland: Land Valuation Records of the 1800s
By Sherry Irvine, CGRS, FSA Scot
To understand what is going on in 19th century Ireland with respect to land valuation, it is necessary to begin with a few details about taxation before change was legislated. Two taxes were collected, the tithe and the cess. The tithe was collected for the maintenance of the Established Church, the Church of Ireland. Until legislation in the 1820s the tithe was collected in kind, one tenth of the produce of the land; e.g., the tenth piglet or the tenth bushel. 
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Irish Chiefs
By Sean J Murphy
In 1999 it emerged publicly that one Terence MacCarthy of Belfast and Morocco, who claimed to be an Irish Chief, 'The MacCarthy Mór, Prince of Desmond', was in fact an impostor.
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The O'Neills of Ulster - A Turbulent History
By Sarah Powell
"...the reed-fringed and bird-haunted silences of that vast lake, Lough Neagh" belie Ulster's, and Ireland's turbulent history. On the north-east shore, the ruins of Shanes Castle, home of the O'Neill family for hundreds of years, provide some inkling.
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The Knight of Glin
By Sarah Powell
Tales of heroic knights riding into battle, courtly romance and adventure abound in mediaeval Arthurian legend and chansons de geste, inspired by and embroidering a European history of holy wars, regional feuds, family allegiance and popular ideals of chivalry. For the Fitzgeralds of Glin, one of Ireland’s great landed gentry families, a captivating castle home in a 500-acre wooded demesne serves as a constant reminder of some 900 years of history, shaped by the exploits of Norman adventurers and the creation of a great Irish lordship in the province of South Munster.
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Scottish and Irish Chiefs
By Hugh Peskett
Scottish and Irish Chiefs are appearing in Burke's Peerage & Baronetage for the first time, apart from those who have been listed before because they have also been peers or baronets. However, they represent an ancient aristocracy, part Gael, part Norse and part Fleming or Norman, and are generally of longer pedigree than the peers and baronets they are joining. Moreover most ancestors of the chiefs who are also peers or baronets were chiefs long before they acquired their other titles.
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