Vandeleurs of Kilrush, County Clare, a comprehensive history of the most prominent landlord family in West Clare, has recently been added to Donated Family Histories on the library website. Using a wide variety of sources, it covers the early years of the family in Kilrush, their involvement with the development of the town and its harbours, the family’s relationship with their tenants during the Famine and the later evictions and their departure from Kilrush in the late nineteenth century. The publication also contains transcriptions of many Vandeleur leases dating from 1785 and a complete transcription of the memorials in the Church of Ireland graveyard in Kilrush. Clare County Library is grateful to Senan Scanlan for donating this work and allowing it to be published online.
The photo above, taken in 1860, shows the stables at Kilrush House, with Johnny Byrnes holding a horse and Col Crofton Moore Vandeleur on the right.
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See Also:
Vandeleur Photographic Collection
Vandeleur Eviction Photographs
Inhabitants of Scattery Island, by Senan Scanlan
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