Why I wrote this history |
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A synopsis of my search for the Grant roots |
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An overview of the Grant line in Ireland |
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From the Geraldines to today in a straight line |
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A chart of the spread of the Irish Grants |
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Thoughts on my Y-DNA |
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The Grants in England before the invasion of Ireland in 1169 |
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Almost an accident, and unplanned by the English |
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The 5 Barons of Iverk, before the Grants lost the title |
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Mayhem in the Middle Ages |
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Ireland from 1320 (sale of the Barony) until 1640 (Cromwell) |
It is important to understand what was happening in Ireland |
Butler rent records help to track the family |
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A complicated period with different armies in Ireland |
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Momentous happenings in Ireland |
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Some Grants drifted to Waterford, across the river from Iverk |
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The first Stephen recorded in Waterford |
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A pirate who plundered and become a country gentlemen |
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Events leading to the Act of Union in 1801 |
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Tipperary | |
Post-Cromwellian confiscation, my Grants move to Tipperary |
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This branch of the Grant family has now died out |
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Highwayman and convicts |
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Fascinating tale of a convict transported to Australia |
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Stranger than fiction tale of a highwayman and prison escaper |
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Covering the change in religion from Protestant to Catholic |
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The Land Wars and Irish Independence |
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The Whiteboys in rural Ireland |
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The Grants in Shinrone, Offaly |
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John Grant (b.1770) moved from Moyaliffe to Shinrone |
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Index of the individual family charts for Shinrone. | |
Charts A to E are children of Stephen Grant of Drumbane, b @1740 | |
John b @1770 of Drommon |
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James d1815 |
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Stephen b @1775, d1808 |
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William b @1880 |
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Thomas b1789 |
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Charts AA to AE are children of John b1770 (Chart A above) |
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John 1805 |
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William 1808 |
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Stephen 1811 |
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Thomas 1813 |
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James 1816 |
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Charts ACA are children of Stephen b1811 (Chart AC above) |
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John 1838 |
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Charles 1840 |
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Richard 1843 |
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Stephen 1848 |
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William 1850 |
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Chart ACG My own great-grandfather |
Thomas 1851 |
Ann 1854 |
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Chart ACI | James 1857 |
Robert & Elizabeth |
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Index to the Appendices |
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The spread of the Grants throughout Ireland | |
The number of Grant families by area | |
Appendix 3 Donegal |
Grant Family in Donegal, Ireland |
Appendix 4 Talbot Migration |
Robert Grant, Canada, & Talbot Migration 1818 |
Appendix 5 Griffiths, Tipperary |
Griffiths - all Grants in Tipperary |
Appendix 6 Population of Ireland |
Population in Ireland |
Appendix 7 Tithes Tipperary |
Tithe Applotment Book @1830 Tipperary |
Banagher and Cloghan Parish, Kings County | |
Burials at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin | |
Various other church records in Tipperary | |
Modreeny, Cloughjordan and Ballingarry Records | |
Grant births in Shinrone Parish Register | |
Grant burials at Shinrone Church | |
Grant Marriages at Shinrone Church | |
Appendix 15 Iverk townlands |
Detail of Iverk, Kilkenny in early Norman times |
Appendix 16 Iverk post 1665 |
Iverk, Co Kilkenny from 1665 onwards |
Parishes and current unions in North Tipperary | |
Parish records Negative for Grant Family | |
Misc. data on the Grant family in Ireland | |
Kilconnel Parish, Co Galway | |
Roman Catholic Records from Co Tipperary | |
Pigots Directory of 1824 for Ireland | |
Places associated with the name Grant in Ireland | |
Appendix 24 Grants Transported |
Transportation to Australia - all Grants |
Appendix 25 RIC Grants |
Royal Irish Constabulary Records |
Appendix 26 Woodlawn CO Galway |
Woodlawn House, Co Galway |
Appendix 27 Trench Family |
Trench Houses in Ireland |