Thank you all so much for your help and info. I find the Irish records are not always straightforward. Im a lot further on now from where I was stuck. Now I just need to find what happened to all the land with the farmhouse. It appears it is still owned by the Quinn family but my mother-in-law was the last of her siblings to die and the land was in her name. It was shared between the 8 children on the understanding it would pass to the remaining ones if one died. My mother in law was the last to die and we know the land was in her name only but it appears a nephew of hers offered to look after the land as he lived nearby. Somehow he persuaded her to sign it over to him and now she has died he has built mansions on it for his children and sold some of it off. No-one knows the circumstances of how he got it as she had dementia in her final years and wouldnt have had any idea what she was signing. Plus, there were no records in her paperwork of her signing anything. We just know she owned the land and suddenly her nephew owns it but no contract is to be found
