{"id":7422,"date":"2025-03-31T09:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T08:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/?p=7422"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:24:42","slug":"rent-receipt-denis-dempsey-walshestown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/rent-receipt-denis-dempsey-walshestown\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent receipt Denis Dempsey, Walshestown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Griffith\u2019s Valuation of 1851 shows Denis Dempsey owning two portions of land. One of 4 acres 1 rood 4 perches, another of 3 acres 3 roods 6 perches with a house and offices.<\/p>\n<p>Tenant\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..Denis Dempsey.<\/p>\n<p>Landlord\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Reps. of William F. Mara.<\/p>\n<p>Prefix\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026Reps.<\/p>\n<p>Location:-<\/p>\n<p>County\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Kildare.<\/p>\n<p>Barony\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Connell.<\/p>\n<p>Union\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026&#8230;Naas.<\/p>\n<p>Parish\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..Greatconnell.<\/p>\n<p>Townsland\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Walshestown.<\/p>\n<p>This shows that Denis Dempsey was renting from the representatives of William F. Mara in Walshestown, Newbridge, Co. Kildare.<\/p>\n<p>The name on the 1863 receipt is Jeremiah Mara, who presumably was a relative, and assuming William F. Mara was dead at this stage. Jeremiah Mara is likely a solicitor in Athy, as his name comes up in the newspapers of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Connolly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griffith\u2019s Valuation of 1851 shows Denis Dempsey owning two portions of land. One of 4 acres 1 rood 4 perches, another of 3 acres 3 roods 6 perches with a house and offices. Tenant\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..Denis Dempsey. Landlord\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Reps. of William F. Mara. Prefix\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026Reps. Location:- County\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Kildare. Barony\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Connell. Union\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026&#8230;Naas. Parish\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..Greatconnell. Townsland\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Walshestown. This shows that Denis Dempsey was renting from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogical-resources","category-social-history"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Dempsey-rent-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Dempsey-rent-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"James Durney","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/jdurney\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7426,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422\/revisions\/7426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}