We are delighted to announce the addition of 8388 new Monaghan/Clogher census substitute records dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries to our database at Roots Ireland! They are as follows:
- 361 Inquisitions for County Monaghan dating from 1591. These list the properties held by people in Monaghan upon their death.
- 1435 records from Book of Survey and Distribution for County Monaghan dating from 1641. These records list the landowners of Monaghan at the time of the outbreak of the 1641 rising.
- 833 records from Book of Survey and Distribution for County Monaghan dating from circa 1650s. These records list the landowners of Monaghan from the mid-1650s.
- 5128 records from index of wills for diocese of Clogher, dating between 1659-1857.
- 631 records from index of those who died intestate in diocese of Clogher, 1793-1821. These list people who died without leaving a will in Clogher diocese.
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