Forfeiting Proprietors, in Ireland under the Cromwellian Settlement

 “To his Highness the Lord Protectors Councell for the Affaires of Ireland.

  May it please yor, Lordsps,

In pursuance of your Lops (Lordships) Order of the 14 October last, requiring mee forthwith to prepare a List containing the names, sirnames, places of abode, and addition of Title, of all Proprioters of Lands or any ways entitled to Lands forfeited to the Commonwealth by the late horrible Rebellion, and returned in the Books of Civil Survey, or otherwise extant upon Record, and certify the same unto your Lops. I humbly present the ensuing List containing the names of all the Papist Proprietors within the counties of Dublin, Lowth, Kildare, Longford, Kilkenny, and Wexford, in the Province of Leinster; in thr counties of Cork and Kerry in the Province of Munster; in the counties of Ffermanagh, Tyrone, Cavan, Donegall, Monaghan, and Londonderry, in the Province of Ulster; and in the counties of Sligo, and in part of the county of Mayo, in the Province of Connaught.

I further humbly certify, that several persons in the respective counties above mentioned, whose qualifications are not distinguished in the Books of Survey, whether Papist or Protestants; as also all such Irish Papists whose estates have been by order of your Lops. excepted from present disposure to the Adventurers, Souldiers, or others,are, notwithstanding, inserted in this List, with a Noate nevertheless against each such name, signifying either the said defect or suspicion; that likewise severall persons are inserted whose places of abode, or of which they are called, are not mentioned in  the Books of Survey; by reason of which it is to be feared one and the same person is several times named in this List; neither doth it appear before mee how many of the persons inserted in this List have proved their constant good affections before the Court for adjudication of the Qualifications of the Irish, or have been admitted to composition for their Estates, in pursuance of the Ordinances of his Highness the Lord Protector [Oliver Cromwell], of the 2nd of September, 1654.

I further humbly certify, that noe Surveys being as yet returned, of the Civil Surveys of the Counties of Catherlogh (Carlow) and Wicklow, in the Province of Leinster; nor of the County of Clare, in the Province of Munster; nor of the Counties in the Province of Connaught; I find not myself capable of certifying your Lops.the names of the forfeited Proprietors in any of the said counties.

All which is humbly submitted to your Lops.
 

Signed by appointment of the Surveyor-Generall.

       CHRISTOP.  GOUGH.

Dublin, 27th January 1656.

This letter was followed by lists of the Forfeiting Proprietors.

English and Scotch Planters in Ireland.

According to Sir Richard Cox and the Carew Manuscript the following were Planters in Ireland in those regions in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and James the First.
      In Wexford - Sir James Carroll - see THE O’CARROLL FAMILY of Co. Wexford

Barony of Killmacrenan  (Forfeiting Proprietors in Ireland)
 Mullrany O’Carroll     -    Total of 34 Confiscations in the Barony of Killmacrenan.
 
Enrolments of the Decrees of Innocents under the Commonwealth Rule, in Ireland

According to the Records of Ireland (Marked 1821-1825) the following are the names mentioned in these Inrolments.
    Carroll,  Amy
     Anthony
     Elizabeth
     James
     Sir James
     Jane
     John
     Sarah
     Thomas

Persons Transplanted in Ireland

Persons’ names to whom Transplanters Certificates were granted in the following counties namely:
     Thady Carroll, Ballyknockane}
     Donnagh Carroll, Rathmore   }
Total 38 Persons Transplanted from the King’s County.
 
     Patrick Carroll, Millestown
Total 19 Persons Transplanted from the Co. Louth -
 
     Mulrony Carroll, Beagh}
     Daniel Carroll, Keillahy}
Total 220 persons Transplanted from the Co. Tipperary   [O’Hart Pedigrees]
 
 

Connaught Certificate

Transplanters AD1653 - 1654

Inrolment of the Certificate of the Commission appointed for hearing and determining the claims of Transplanted Persons in the Province of Connaught and County Clare, preserved in the office of the Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Dublin - see the records of Ireland made 1821-1825

Carroll,            
    Daniel
    Donnogh
    Donogh
    John
    Keane
    Mahony
    Owen

The “Forty-nine” Officers

Inrolments in the Ajudications in favour of the (AD) 1649 officers (formerly denominated  “The 49 Lots”) Preserved in the offices of the Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer Dublin - see Records of Dublin marked 1821-1825 pp 610-637

     Daniel Carroll,

Restorees of Charles II
The following are the names of the persons mentioned by Charles II in his famous Declaration, who came to be restored to their former estates in Ireland.
     (Captain)   John Carroll
     (Captain)   Teige Carroll                            Note: Charles II reigned from 1660 to 1685
     (Lieutenant)  Thurlogh Carroll
     (Ensign) Teige Carroll
     (Ensign)  William Carroll
 
Instruction of Charles the Second To His Commissioners  

13/11/1660

...That Maurice Keating Esq son and heir of Edmond Keating of Norraghmore, in the County of Kildare, Esq shall have and may have hold and enjoy to him and his heirs all and every of the Manors Town, Village, Land Tenements and Heredilaments in this King’s County, purchased by or in trust for his said faither before the 23rd October 1641 from John Carroll, Esq.
 
Names of Persons in the Grants

 Under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation
     Donagh Carroll
     John Carroll

Forfeiting Proprietors in Ireland

 Under the Williamite Confiscations
Names of Proprietors whose estates were confiscated and sold at Chichester House, Dublin in 1702 and 1703.
     John O’Carroll,
     Owen O’Carroll,                                             [O’Hart Pedigrees]

 
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