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Has anyone had luck locating estate rent rolls and leases for Kilkeedy parish, Killourney townland, landowner the Marquis of Thomond (James O'Brien) until 1855, then Richard D'Arcy?

I've checked Clare Library, which has information on Kilkeedy in 1824, was hoping for something more recent. I'm surprised John got 8 years because his sister got only 3 and two other grandparents, from Mayo and Galway, got 4 and 3.

Diane

My grandfather John Fergus Kerrigan, born in Kilkeedy in 1875, reported on the 1940 US census that he had 8 years of education. He came from a poor farm family, and I wonder how common that amount of education was in the 1880s. Do others have insights into what level of education was common in this ...