FindmyPast has today released a new set of records from the Irish Land Commission, which oversaw the compulsory sale of some 13.5m acres of land from large landowners to 400,000 tenant farmers between 1885 and 1920 and lent the tenants the money for their purchases. The new records provide details of all the purchases financed by the Commission between 1885 and 1920. Combined with other sources like the Griffith's valuation, the records of the Landed Estates Court and the land transactions in the Registry of Deeds, these records allow a more complete view of the history and genealogy of landowners and tenants than has been possible before.
All these sources are described in Space Irish Quaker Sources and Resources.
A description of the Land Commission and its archives was published in History Ireland in 2014.
