WILLS
Information
Given.
Testamentary
Authority before 1857.
Consistorial
Wills and Administrations.
Prerogative
Wills and Administrations.
Prerogative
Wills: Betham Abstracts.
Testamentary
Authority after 1857.
Calendars
of Wills and Administrations.
Abstracts and Transcripts.
Will Abstracts:
Inland Revenue Records.
Will Abstracts:
Land Commission Records.
Wills in
the Registry of Deeds.
Will Abstracts
in the Genealogical Office.
Will Abstracts
and Transcripts: Other Sources.
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Will Abstracts: Land Commission Records
Under the provisions of the Land Purchase Acts, which subsidized the purchase of smallholdings by the tenants who occupied them, it was necessary for those wishing to sell to produce evidence of their ownership to the Irish Land Commission. As a result, over 10,000 wills were deposited with the Commission, the majority from the nineteenth century, but many earlier. The National Library holds a card index to the testators. The original documents are currently in the process of being transferred to the National Archives.
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