Mary Simpson <[email protected]> said: >One of the ' family stories ' repeated over and over by parents, aunts >and uncles etc., was of a dispossession, occurring in the early 1880s, >which I now believe may have been part of the Land Wars in that part of >Cork. Or even the end of a fixed lease, perhaps a Lease of Life or >similar. But the family is not happy with that, dispossession being >much more romantic. Only access to the Earl of Bandon's Estate Papers >would sort this one out. I did find the advertisement for the land >that my great grandfather purchased in early 1877 from the >Representative Body of the Church of Ireland, and perhaps the details >might be found in their archives - if they have survived..... I believe The Earl of Bandon's Estate Papers are at the Cork City and County Archives. See http://www.corkarchives.ie/ See http://www.ireland.anglican.org/library/index.html for the CofI Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. -dja