WHO LIVED WHERE IN LEIXLIP, 1850-1967 Who their landlord was; the area, if any, of their land, its worth and other observations Compiled by John Colgan © 2008 johncolgan at iol.ie ‘VALUATION LISTS’ being mainly No 7, County Kildare, County Health District, Kidare, RD Celbridge No 1, ED Leixlip, aka CANCELLATION BOOKS, LEIXLIP AND ENVIRONS Compiled firstly from Griffith’s Valuation , published 1851, and the series of Cancellation Books of the Valuation Office, Dublin. Changes made after 1967 are not recorded in this document. Where the area is shown, it is rounded to the nearest whole number of acres. The valuation figure shown is usually that for the buildings alone; in most cases these comprise a house and ‘offices’ (=sheds, outside toilets, harness rooms etc). Guesstimates have been made in some instances where the exact year is unclear from the manuscript. Some cancellation books overlap a period of time. Occasionally different spellings of names may be used. In most cases where there are several checks on occupancy done in different assessments, only the starting a finishing years are shown. Where a ‘new’ occupier/lessor is shown, the previous occupier/lessor is presumed to have vacated the premises in the previous year. This need not be the case at all, as no data is available during the period between checks. It is possible for an occupier to come and go within such an interval without being detected by the valuation officer calling. The Cancellation Books were recorded by door-to-door callers, enquiring off those who were present when they called. Sometimes the successor shares the same first and second name with the first such; there is no way of separating the two. Other apparent changes appear to arise when women tenants marry and use their new surname in a subsequent year. Other ‘changes’ of tenancy arise when the caller corrects a misspelt surname or adds a missing first name. The lessors may be regarded as guesstimates by the respondents. Indeed, if they were taken at face value, some would have very long lives indeed. However, one could frequently assume that their representatives were the lessors. When houses were demolished, classified as exempt or so ruinous as to be beyond occupation, they were either classified as ‘ruins’ or simply excised from the record. Unfortunately, the officers calling sometimes caused confusion by combining Lots or separating bits, often for a workman’s house and site, from existing Lots; their methodology is inconsistent and occasionally ambiguous, as the same Lot no. may be used at a different time for a new property or, in some cases, different lot numbers are used for the same property by different callers. These records, below, include interpretations of same. Some editing has been done, eg, citing the first and last years only of references rather than all such dates. The term LAP means that ownership in fee simple of the property was acquired from the landlord under one of the Land Acquisition Acts. To use the record it is advisable that (a) all spellings of a name should be tried and (b) having found a reference here, one checks the original manuscript. Maps are available from the Valuation Office, Dublin, showing the boundaries of Lot numbers and property thereon at the time the map was compiled. In Fee - means the tenant has purchased the title to the land from the landlord and has no (further) obligations to the former landlord. RDC - Rural District Council; Leixlip was part of Celbridge No.1 RDC, which was empowered to provide houses for farm labourers. The Valuation figure in £ was the notional annual rent which would be paid to rent the property in or about 1840, if the property was unencumbered. It was the basis of local taxation (‘Rates’) for residences and remains the basis for local taxes on commercial and industrial premises. 2.4 (statute) acres is approximately one hectare (=100m x 100m). This data base was transcribed by John Colgan in Microsoft Word for Office, using Times New Roman script, between February and June, 2003. It has not been edited. The reader is advised to check the original hard-copy of the record at the Archives Section of the Valuation Office, Dublin, after having located it here. BARNHALL 1 Job Coley (1866) Thos Conolly (1866) land (1868) house offices and land [94 acres] £7 10s house (1870) > Joseph Coley (1866-76) > Reps Thos Conolly (1877-92) > John Coley (1877-83) > In fee (1901) > Charlotte Anne Coley (1884-6) > John Caldwell (1887-90) > Patk Kiernan (1891-2) > Patk Flanagan (1899) > Thos Flanagan (1900-9) > In fee (1909: LAP) > Thomas Finnegan (1909-27) £69 total (1909) > Joseph Finnegan (1928-47-67) [Now lot 1Aa, 1934] Herd’s (1934) house, offices and land £8 house (1934) House, office and land (1952) £20 house (1952) [Note that lot 1Ab, Jos Finnegan, house valued at £6, was struck out in 1952, no obs.] Jas Thos Conolly Saunders (c1855) RECHECK house and lands £23 15s > Edward Carty (1873) 1a Wm Coley (1850) Thos Conolly (1850) house offices and land £2 10s house Wm Coley (c1855-61) > Thos Conolly (c1855-61) house offices and land > James Neary (1868) > Job Coley (1866) house and office £1 10s > Vacant (1870) > Joseph & John Coley (1868) > Reps Thos Conolly (1880) house down (1870) 1b Wm Geraghty (1850) Thos Conolly (1850) garden 9s land only, no land > Bridget Geraghty (1855-8) > Thos Conolly (1858-61) > in fee (c1855-61) land (plantation) 10s land > Vacant (1866) > [Now 1c] Thos Conolly (1873-76) house down (1870) > Reps Thos Conolly (1877-84) > Thos Conolly (1892-1909) > in fee (1892-1901-28) > Capt Edward Conolly (1915-28-42) “[Increase] from Rinewade Up” 15s (1913) > Castletown Estates Co (1943-7-67) Plantation [1 acre] 15s (1927) 2 George Coley (1850) Thos Conolly (1850) house offices and land £9 house (2) 3 A+B Edward Coley (1850) Thos Conolly (1850) house, offices and land [58 acres] £9 5s buildings 3 A+B Edward Coley (1855-61) Thos Conolly(c1855-76) houses offices and land £10 house (3Aa) > Reps Edward Coley (1866) > Reps Thos Conolly (1877-84) > William Coley (1868-78) > Thos Conolly (1892) > John Edward Pollock (1879-83) > George Ronaldson (1884-5) [54 acres] > Wm Ronaldson (1886-92-1909) > In fee (1909) 2 houses offices & land [122 acres] (1892) £116 (1909) total BOOK TO 1909: 2b “on 4”. Patrick Nolan (1906) Celbridge RDC house, office and garden (1904) £1 10s house (1904) 2&3 John Edward Pollock (1879) > Reps Thos Conolly ditto [AS 2, 3 A+B] £117 3A&B Edward Coley (1850-61) Thos Conolly (1850-61) house offices and land £9 5s house 3b Patrick Malone (1850) > Edward Coley (1850) house and office 13s Lots 2 and 3 re-separated in Book ending 1928: 2 Wm Ronaldson (->1909) In fee: LAP (1909) land & house [78 acres] (1909) £9 house (1909) > Thomas Plewsman? (1910-20) > James B Plewsman? (1921-4) > Royal Bank of Ireland (1925) > Mr O’Connor (1926) > John O’Connor (1927-47-50) Land [78 acres] £68 land (1927-47) > Patrick O’Connor (1951-3) > Capt J S Sheppard (1954-67) 2a John O’Connor (1927-47) In fee, LAP (1927) house, offices, & farmyard (in common) (1927) [1acre] £12 bldgs ditto (1927-47) 2b Patrick Nolan (1904) Celbridge RDC No1 (1904-33) house, office and garden [half acre] £1 10s house (1904) > Jimmy Toole (1935-41) > Kildare Co Board of Health > Mary Toole (1942-7-58) (1934-47) > Maria O’Toole (1959) > In fee (1964?) Renamed as lot 2c Book, 1947-67. 2b Timothy O’Connor (1927-36) In fee, LAP (1927) house, offices & Farmyard (in common) (1927) [1 acre] £7 bldgs > John O’Connor (1937-47-50) ditto (1927-47) Lots 2a and 2b combined in Book 1947-67: John O’Connor (1947-50) In fee: LAP House offices & farmyard [NB one house from 1951] £24 bldgs (1951) > Patrick O’Connor (1951-3) [1 acre] £27 10s (1956) > Capt JS Sheppard (1954-67) 3 Timothy O’Connor (1927-36) In fee LAP (1927) land [48 acres] £33 land (1927) > John O’Connor (1937-47-50) > Patrick O’Connor (1951-3) > Capt JS Sheppard (1954-67) 3a John Carey (1927-34) Timothy O’Connor (1927-37) House (1927) £2 house (1927) > William Flanagan (1935-7) > John O’Connor (1938-47-50) > --- Percy (1938-40) > Patrick O’Connor (1951) > Vacant (1941) > Capt JS Sheppard (1954) > Nicholas Flynn (1942-5) > Vacant (1946-7) > Joseph Lacey (1951-5-67) 4 Wm S Mitchell (c1855-61) Thos Conolly (c1855-76) land £5 10s > Maurice Cane (1868-93) > Reps Thos Conolly (1877-92) > Captain Lane? (1894-1904) > Thos Conolly (1894-09) land (1894) > Richard Claude Cane (1905-9) Garden, (caretaker’s) house & offices (1907) £17 house (1907) > A G Dalgety (1908-9) Land (1908-9) [7 acres] £5 10s land (1908) > Captain Evans (1912-3) “1913: to Parsonstown ED Celbridge” Struck out, (1913) 4 Miss C Jameson (1850) Edward Coley (1850) house, office, and land £4 5s house 4a Richard Aylmer (1855-9) Wm Smith Mitchell (1855-61) house 10s 4a > Wm McNally (c1860-78) > Maurice Cane (1865-78) Down? ---- (1879) 4b Vacant (1855-79) Wm Smith Mitchell (1855-61) house £1 10s > Maurice Cane (1866-78) Down? ---- (1879) 4c Michael Leonard (1855-9) Wm Smith Mitchell (1855-61) house £2 5s > Matthew Cahill (c1860) > Maurice Cane (1866-78) Down? ---- (1879) > John Pembroke (1861-78) COLLINSTOWN 1 John Hackett Esq (1850) Rev JTC Saunders(1850) house and land £1 5s house > Alexr Wardrop (c1855-9) Rev JTC Saunders(1855-84) house and land [£1 5s house] £23 15s house and land > Peter Keiler (1861-72) > Edward Carty (1873) Land, mostly north of Maynooth Rd, cottage there.