1820s/30s Tithe Applotment Books

Tithe was a tax on all agricultural land excepting only churchlands, glebes and urban areas. Until 1823, the tithe was paid in kind by the occupier of the land. The replacement of payment in kind by payment in cash resulted from a series of Tithe Composition Acts between 1823 and 1838. Valuations of the land had to be made by local surveyors and assessors and the results, arranged by civil parish and townland, were collected in volumes known as the Tithe Applotment Books.

The above paragraph is taken from the PRONI web site. Go to PRONI for more details on the Tithe Applotment Books.

Remember that the Tithe Applotment lists only the landholders (usually the leaseholders) in a townland. Whilst, probably the majority of people listed lived in the townland, some did not. As many of you probably know there is a database of this source available from Irish World and Ballymoney Ancestry includes some parishes for the Ballymoney area on its site.

I have databased the names for the parishes of Ballymoney and Kilraghts. Note that the entries in Excel version of the database are listed in the order that they appear within the original document for each parish. There is also a separate sheet in the Excel file where the entries are sorted by standardised surname, parish and townland. The entries in the PDF version are sorted by standardised surname, parish and townland.  Note that [where it is given] I have included the acreage of each holding in both Irish acres and English statute acres. I hope to add further parishes to this database as soon as I can.
 

1820s/1830s Tithe Applotment for the Parishes of Ballymoney and Kilraghts in North Antrim

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