Tithe Applotments

[rob246]

Hi

I'm wondering if anyone would know if there are Tithe Applotment books available for the townland of Drumhaggart.  It lies between the villages of Burnfoot and Muff.  The person I am looking for is John Wason.

Thanks

[rathmore]

donegal resources

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal

come down the page on the left and click on Burt
John Wason listed under Griffiths valuation

If you come down the page to the green box - search this website and type in the box, tithe applotment
will bring up information

[joemc]

The Tithe books for Donegal are online on the National Archives site:

http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/introduction-to-genealogy/

Unfortunately the tithe books are very poorly indexed on the site so confusing to say the least!

Drumhaggart townland is in the parish of Burt, Donegal but you won't find Burt parish browsing Donegal, for some reason it has been mixed up with the parish of Burry, Co. Meath, even then not all townlands are present and unfortunately I don't see Drumhaggart or similar.

Tithe books are also available on the family search site: http://tinyurl.com/lbtuelg
Again but I couldn't find townland. May take a bit of searching or perhaps the tithe books for the townland don't survive.

Regards

[joemc]

Small update for the above:

If you browse the tithe book > Meath >Burry,1834 and change to image 19 (of 135) you will see the index for Burt parish, Drumhaggart is listed as page 113. Unfortunately these page/s are missing Elaghbeg P.107 is the last townland that records are recorded, image 133, the next page has the totals for the parish.

So looks like the pages didn't survive or were not copied correctly, the same is true  for the townland of Gortcomacan

edit: sorry should have said viewing book via family search site, this link should take you to index page:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-12233-11133-44?cc=1804886&wc=M6LC-336:147766401,147812101

[rob246]

Thanks rathmore and joemc for your help.  I will look into it and see what I can find.

Regards

[rob246]

joemc,

I think I may have found what happened.  I looked up the tithe applotments for Burry Meath on the National Archives site, and on the last page there is a John Boyd with no townland beside him.  If you click on his name you find a page with the breakdown of the tithes.  Against Drumhaggart and Gortcormacan there is only untithable land, so the residents mustn't have had to pay tithes.
Thanks again, as I would never have thought it would have been under Meath.

Regards

[colinmclharr]

The records don't have the tithe applotment books for the Parish of Glencolumbkille (Co. Donegal).

Were they destroyed?

[rob246]

Apparently there are no tithe applotment books for Glencolumbkille, only the certificate giving the total value of the tithes. 

[colinmclharr]

thank you!  appreciate that.

I will be at the National Archives in Dublin in a couple of weeks.  Can you think of any line of inquiry that help explain this further?