Finding Locations for the Hearth Tax Lists of 1665-7 UPDATED
Finding Locations for Hingerty References in the Tipperary Hearth Tax Lists of 1665-7
The Hearth Rolls of 1667 for Tipperary were originally compiled to enable the collection of a tax on every hearth (fireplace) in Ireland by the English Crown five years after the return of Charles II as "a convenient instrument for extracting the last farthing from a defeated race" (Editor's Preface by Thomas Laffan in the transcribed lists published in 1911).
The Introduction written by Bishop Thomas Fennelly and the Editor's Preface written by Thomas Laffan leave us in no doubt as to the political viewpoints of these two gentlemen. Well worth a read.
Hearth Money Records 1665-6-7 Tipperary
The actual lists include a few Hingerty name variants;
Hingerty, Hingorty, Hingortye, Hingurtie, Hingirdill, Hingerville......... showing us that families were 'creative' in their adoption of spelling variations as they anglicised their Gaelic surname.
The Hearth Rolls of Tipperary (and the later Tithe Applotment Lists and Griffith's Valuations of the 1800s) raise a geographic question for us.
If John Hingerty/Harrington was in Cork in 1577 and later Hingertys are in Tipperary in 1665-7 what caused the move from Cork to Tipperary? See later posts for a possible hypothesis.
Update: Many thanks to TM, a Harrington/Hingerty researcher in the UK who has reworked the original map supplying modern names and locations for many more of the Hingerdill places named in the Hearth Tax Lists.
His maps have replaced my earlier incomplete map. The additional information supplied by TM has been added in italics to the list below.
Side note: Having always thought of the Hingertys as being from north Tipperary, it has been an interesting exercise to map them in the more southerly Cashel area in the mid 1600s.
Just when you think you have it all worked out, the ancestors throw another spanner in the works and keep us guessing......and researching......
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