farmers in ireland

[flannery]

My grand father was a farmer in ireland co,cork, and I wondered if there was a way of finding
out if he was a land owner or rented? 

[ftcorkmdb]

Why don't you say who he was and when and where he lived?  Virtually any 'farmer' in Irleland before, say, 1900 leased his land from someone else.  Some leases provided almost the security of what we would nowadays call ownership, but most were subject to the tenant farmer's ability to pay his annual rent. 

[flannery]

hi there my grandfathers name was Thomas Mcgivern unsure of exact date  but his daughter
was born in 1880 does this help?

[Joaniebabe]

Hi there,

I'm in the same boat.   My gggrandfather was also a farmer.  When my ggrandmother married in 1871 at St Finbarr's South Chapel her  address was given as 'Greenmount'  and her father was named as Michael LEAHY, Farmer, deceased.

I know nothing else about her birth either. St Finn's don't have her baptism and St Finn's also cover the district of Greenmount so no clue as to where to go next.   Her name was Ellen LEAHY and we think from subsequent census' that she was born around 1850.  Age on marriage certificate is given as 'full'

I'm absolutely stumped.  Can anyone suggest anything??

I'd dearly love to break down this brick wall.


Thank you,
Joan