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Title: An infirm property ?
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 10 July 21 05:16 BST (UK)
Can anyone make out what this says about John Thompson s property
I read it as information but it could be a farm
In 1875

Are the amounts sale price or a valuation
Title: Re: An infirm property ?
Post by: mckha489 on Saturday 10 July 21 05:37 BST (UK)
First three columns

A= Acre
R = Roods
p = Perches

So bottom line is I think.  -  Waste of road and river  -  2 acres

So the land that can’t be used effectively and has no value while the 26 acres 1 rood and 12 perches is valued at 2 shillings and sixpence per acre.   (Well, that’s my interpretation anyway)

Working on the other bit.
It is “part rough” So the rest must be descriptive.
Title: Re: An infirm property ?
Post by: Kay99 on Saturday 10 July 21 05:49 BST (UK)
After John Thompson could it be *Very inferior"??

Kay
Title: Re: An infirm property ?
Post by: mckha489 on Saturday 10 July 21 05:54 BST (UK)
Very inferior*  poor steep
……. ……..  and part rough
Swampy ** pasture lies very
steep and inconvenient.


*Thanks to Kay
** “ Shanreagh
Title: Re: An infirm property ?
Post by: mckha489 on Saturday 10 July 21 05:57 BST (UK)
Quote from: Kay99 on Saturday 10 July 21 05:49 BST (UK)
After John Thompson could it be *Very inferior"??

Kay

Think you are right
Title: Re: An infirm property ?
Post by: mckha489 on Saturday 10 July 21 06:01 BST (UK)
Word before pasture looks like scrampy

colloquial Irish term ??
Title: Re: An infirm property ?
Post by: shanreagh on Saturday 10 July 21 06:35 BST (UK)
Quote from: mckha489 on Saturday 10 July 21 06:01 BST (UK)
Word before pasture looks like scrampy

colloquial Irish term ??
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?action=post;quote=7183650;topic=850789.0;last_msg=7183650

'Swampy' perhaps?
Title: Re: An infirm property ?
Post by: mckha489 on Saturday 10 July 21 06:52 BST (UK)
 ;D ;D ;D

Swampy, not colloquial Irish at all! 
Title: Re: An infirm property ?
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 10 July 21 07:36 BST (UK)
Thanks all
Yes i can see
Very inferior now doesnt sound very appealing does it ?

I wonder if the price was low and if he sold it .
The family were slaters for many generations but his second wife turns up as widowed farmer in 1911
If it's the right john Thompson
Title: Re: An infirm property ?
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 10 July 21 07:40 BST (UK)
No idea what the words that look like
Looky hour ....could be

Not sure if this document is a valuation for how much he should be taxed .

Its in kilcornan county Wicklow Ireland
Title: Re: An infirm property ?
Post by: josey on Saturday 10 July 21 09:06 BST (UK)
Perhaps 'rocky how' meaning a rocky mound? As in Maeshowe in Orkney - 'meadow mound'
Title: Re: An infirm property ?
Post by: conahy calling on Saturday 10 July 21 11:38 BST (UK)
or could it be "Rockey brow" (brow being top part of a hill)
Title: Re: An infirm property ?
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 10 July 21 13:59 BST (UK)
Looks more like rocky how ..I feel I've heard that term before somewhere.

It certainly doesn't sound like a desirable plot