Dennis, Your posting suggests this could be a useful area to research. But could you spell it out a bit more clearly for those like myself, not very knowledgeable. What date range are we talking about? Does this apply to all estates in all parts of Ireland? What form does the list in the Nat. Archive take, e.g. is it indexed by parish, or by landowner etc?? Are you suggesting to look up the Nat. Arch first and then the newspaper - will the newspaper give you additional info to whats in the archive? John "Dennis Ahern" <ahern@world.std.com> wrote in message news:dhrudf$paa$1@pcls4.std.com... > > I spent some time in March going through the Landed Estate Court rental > lists at the National Archives in Dublin. They are copies of detailed > advertisements of estates that were being put up for sale. I just noticed > in an issue of the Freeman's Journal newspaper, a report of a typical > estate sale, listing the purchasers and prices. If you have found an > ancestor's rental in a list of landed estate properties, it might be worth > searching the Dublin newspapers of the period for a report if it was sold. > > -dja >