Irish John Smith Children, William's 65th Birthday, 1947
Complete Tithe Records
Aghabog Civil Parish
County Monaghan
Smith Family Genealogy
Introduction
Ireland began collecting census records in the early part of the nineteenth century. Unfortunately for us most of the nineteenth century records were destroyed or burned in a fire. Genealogists use other records such as Tithe Applotment records and Griffith Valuation surveys as census substitutes. Previously we published a small portion of the Aghabog Tithe records as recorded in 1833. This document includes the full tithe list for this parish, including everyone who paid this tithe. We have written about this parish before. This is where “Irish” John Smith and his family lived.
There was no standardization for spelling surnames or locations. The spelling you see is as it appeared in the tithe lists. In the list that follows please remember that the column labeled ‘Denominations’ refers to Townlands.
Aghabog Civil Parish
Lewis’s 1837 Description
AGHABOG, a parish, in the barony of DARTRY, county of MONAGHAN, and province of ULSTER, 1 mile (W.) from Newbliss, on the road from Clones to Ballybay; containing 7442 inhabitants.
It comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 11,543½ statute acres, of which 222½ are covered with water, and 10,484 are arable and pasture land, applotted under the tithe act ; there are also from 16 to 20 acres of woodland, and about 243 of bog. The soil is a rich but shallow loam on a deep, stiff, and retentive clay, which renders it wet unless drained and manured with lime and marl, but it produces naturally an abundant herbage: the inhabitants are nearly all engaged in the linen manufacture. Within the limits of the parish are five lakes, of which that near Leysborough demesne is the largest. Drumbrain is the neat residence of T. Phillips, Esq.
The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Clogher, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £331.3s. 3d. The church is a plain edifice, built in 1775, for which purpose the late Board of First Fruits gave £390. There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 40 acres.
In the Roman Catholic divisions this parish forms part of the union of Killeevan : the chapel is a neat modern building, situated on the townland of Lathnamard.
At Drumkeen there is a Presbyterian meeting-house, in connection with the Seceding Synod, and of the second class. There are seven public and two private schools in the parish. James Woodwright, Esq., of Gola, bequeathed £10 per ann. for the poor.
What is the Tithe Applotment?
While the Irish census began in
1810, most records were lost in a fire. The Tithe Applotment records from
1823-1837 are therefore extremely important.
The Composition Act of 1823 specified that tithes
due to the Established Church (Church of Ireland), which before had been payable
in kind should now be paid in money. As a result, it was necessary to carry
out a valuation of the entire country, civil parish by civil parish, to
determine how much would be payable by each landholder. This continued for 15
years before ending in 1838. No one was exempt and the tithe was required
payable by Catholics and Protestants alike. As the British took control
of Ireland the Church of Ireland began to push in on the Catholic Church which
had held sway in Ireland for centuries. The Church of Ireland wanted landholders
to pay tithes to the church, and worked on this applotment in order to ensure
that everyone paid.
A book still exists for almost every civil parish in Ireland. It lists the land
in that parish, how it is broken down, who is on each plot of land, and the
amount of money owed. Anyone who leased land had to pay the tithe. Catholics
and non-Anglicans hated the tithe; however, many paid it to maintain their
leasehold.
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Source: FHL BRITISH Film 256560 No. _______________ RECORDS IRISH LAND COMMISSION APPLOTMENT BOOK. Parish of Aughabog, Aghabog Diocese of Clogher County of Monaghan We deliver the above as our applotment and valuation for the Tithe Composition of the Parish of Aughabog to take effect from the first day of November for part given in bonds, this 8 day of May 1833. Thos. Phillips James Moorhead Commissioners. |
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