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Who was their landlord?

Does the term ‘immediate lessor’ on the Griffith’s Valuation ‘Primary Valuation of Tenements’necessarily  identify the owner of the land? I wondered whether my ancestors were evicted in the mid-19th century and decided to investigate the landlord for clues.  The ‘immediate lessor’ of my family’s home was a James Kickham, who I am thinking may have been the James Kickham Esq who was chairman of the Tenants Protection Society and, therefore, unlikely to have thrown them out.  I am aware that the Kickhams were generally ‘Fenians’. So perhaps James Kickham was leasing the land from someone else. How might I found out who the owner was? The lived on Fethard Street, Mullinahone, Tipperary at the time of Griffith’s Valuation

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Hazel,

Griffiths simply tells you who the immediate superior landlord was. There’s no easy way of knowing whether that person owned the land or was themselves a tenant. Nor was it obligatory to record land ownership details anywhere until much more recent times.

You can follow the records forward from Griffiths Primary Valuation, using the revaluation records in the Valuation Office in Dublin. These are not on-line at present but if you and view them, they record changes of tenants and landlord, as well as any changes to the property, right through to around 1929. So you can see when your ancestor vacated the property, and sometimes it’ll indicate why eg if the records change to “reps of” you know that the person had died recently.

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