"Fiants ... were the warrants directed to the Irish Chancery, directing the issue of letters patent under the great seal, and corresponding to the 'Signed Bills' of English procedure ... Letters patent could cover a wide variety of matters: leases and grants of land, either from the Crown itself or following upon a surrender by the original proprietor, in the well-known but often misunderstood process known as 'surrender and regrant;' appointments...

The manor of Gormanston lies partly in county Meath and partly in county Dublin. The ancient register book of the Lords of Gormanston is primarily an entry book of the title-deeds of their estates at the end of the fourteenth century, but it also includes many earlier deeds from other areas of Ireland collected by Lord Christofer de Preston.

"Desmond Norton's study of the relationships between landlords and tenants in Ireland during the Great Famine period of the 1840s is principally based on a large uncatalogued archive in private ownership of the Stewart & Kincaid land agents. Much of the information from this unique resource is being published for the first time. Norton challenges existing assumptions about landlord-tenant relations, emigration and land improvement during the famine...

"... contemporary copies of documents concerning the lengthy lawsuit between Charles O Doyne (Cathaoir Ó Duinn), a Master in the Irish Court of Chancery who died in 1617, and his elder brother, Thady or Teig (Thadhg) Ó Duinn." -- Intro. "Charles and Thady were sons of Tadhg Óg Ó Duinn, a landowner and lord of Úi Riagán in Laois from 1558-1607. The dispute concerned the succession to Tadhg Óg's lands and chiefries. In the dispute, Nicholls remarks...

The Registry of Deeds began recording wills of persons who died after March 25, 1708, in which real estate was assigned to heirs. These wills were recorded in three ways: in full, in the testator's own words; "Narrate," or third person; and "Précis," or brief statement showing to whom the testator assigned his real estate. These have become invaluable after the destruction in 1922 of the original wills deposited at the Dublin Public Record Office....