Title: State-Aided Emigration Schemes from Crown Estates in Ireland c. 1850
Date: c.1850
Description: Emigration schemes on the Crown Estates were carried out in the mid-1800s under the direction of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues of the Crown. Material relating to the emigration schemes is available for the following estates: Ballyckilcline, County Roscommon; Boughill, County Galway; Kilconcouse, County Offaly; Kingwilliamstown, County Cork and Castlemaine, County Kerry. For the individual migrants the data comprises name, age, family relationships, dates of departure and arrival, and personal details, such as ‘very poor’.
Source: Eilish Ellis, Analecta Hibernica, No. 22 (1960), pp. 328, 331-394
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