Contents of the History of the Grant Family in Ireland

Forward

Why I wrote this history

   

Story of the search

A synopsis of my search for the Grant roots

   

Conclusions and brief analysis of family tree

An overview of the Grant line in Ireland

   

Descent from The Geraldines in 1057

From the Geraldines to today in a straight line

   

How the various Grants fit into this tree

A chart of the spread of the Irish Grants

   

DNA use in Family history research

Thoughts on my Y-DNA

   

Preamble to the Norman invasion of Ireland

The Grants in England before the invasion of Ireland in 1169

   

Why Ireland was invaded by the Normans

Almost an accident, and unplanned by the English

   

The genealogy of the Barons of Iverk

The 5 Barons of Iverk, before the Grants lost the title

   

William Grant the Elder

Mayhem in the Middle Ages

   

Ireland from 1320 (sale of the Barony) until 1640 (Cromwell)

It is important to understand what was happening in Ireland

   

Grants of Iverk from 1320 until 1640

Butler rent records help to track the family

   

The Grants of Iverk, 1640 to 1690

A complicated period with different armies in Ireland

   

Ireland from Cromwell , 1640, until William of Orange, 1690

Momentous happenings in Ireland

   

The Grants of Waterford City, 1500 to 1690

Some Grants drifted to Waterford, across the river from Iverk

   

Stephen Grant of Waterford (b.@1650)

The first Stephen recorded in Waterford

   

Jasper Grant

A pirate who plundered and become a country gentlemen

   

Ireland 1690 to 1798

Events leading to the Act of Union in 1801

   
Tipperary  
   

Grants of Co. Tipperary, 1660 onwards

Post-Cromwellian confiscation, my Grants move to Tipperary

   

Grants of Templemore

This branch of the Grant family has now died out

   

Grants of Moyne, transported to Australia

Highwayman and convicts

   

John Grant transported from Moyne

Fascinating tale of a convict transported to Australia

   

Jeremiah Grant, highwayman

Stranger than fiction tale of a highwayman and prison escaper

   

Grants of Moyaliff

Covering the change in religion from Protestant to Catholic

   

Ireland 1798 to 1922

The Land Wars and Irish Independence

   

Rural unrest in Tipperary 1750 to 1850

The Whiteboys in rural Ireland

   

Shinrone history

The Grants in Shinrone, Offaly

   

Grants of Shinrone, Co Offaly from 1798

John Grant (b.1770) moved from Moyaliffe to Shinrone

   
Index of the individual family charts for Shinrone.
Charts A to E are children of Stephen Grant of Drumbane, b @1740
   

Chart A

John b @1770 of Drommon

   

Chart B

James d1815

   

Chart C

Stephen b @1775, d1808

   

Chart D

William b @1880

   

Chart E

Thomas b1789

   

Charts AA to AE are children of John b1770 (Chart A above)

   

Chart AA

John 1805

   

Chart AB

William 1808

   

Chart AC

Stephen 1811

   

Chart AD

Thomas 1813

   

Chart AE

James 1816

   

Charts ACA are children of Stephen b1811 (Chart AC above)

   

Chart ACA

John 1838

   

Chart ACB

Charles 1840

   

Chart ACC

Richard 1843

   

Chart ACE

Stephen 1848

   

Chart ACF

William 1850

   

Chart ACG My own great-grandfather

Thomas 1851

   

Chart ACH

Ann 1854

   
Chart ACI

James 1857

   

Chart ACJ

Robert & Elizabeth

   
   

Index to the Appendices

   

Appendix 1

The spread of the Grants throughout Ireland
   

Appendix 2

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
   

Appendix 8

Banagher and Cloghan Parish, Kings County
   

Appendix 9

Burials at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin
   

Appendix 10

Various other church records in Tipperary
   

Appendix 11

Modreeny, Cloughjordan and Ballingarry Records
   

Appendix 12

Grant births in Shinrone Parish Register
   

Appendix 13

Grant burials at Shinrone Church
   

Appendix 14

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
   

Appendix 17

Parishes and current unions in North Tipperary
   

Appendix 18

Parish records Negative for Grant Family
   

Appendix 19

Misc. data on the Grant family in Ireland
   

Appendix 20

Kilconnel Parish, Co Galway
   

Appendix 21

Roman Catholic Records from Co Tipperary
   

Appendix 22

Pigots Directory of 1824 for Ireland
   

Appendix 23

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

Grant Family History