Source: Eilish Ellis in Analectica Hibernica, xxii, (1960), pp 329-394.

The crown estate of Kilconcouse was situated in the parish of Kinnitty, King's Co., and comprised 871 acres. This estate differed from Ballykilcline, Irvilloughter and Boughill in that in this case, from 1829 onwards, leases had been granted to the tenants for a twenty-one year term. The rents appeared to have been paid fairly regularly until the year 1846 when the famine intervened. In a report from the secretary of Kinnitty District relief committee, it was started with twelve families of 68 person where without any provisions and 'in most precarious state'. Forty individuals were unable to work. Subscriptions amounting to £35 were contributed by the commissioners of Woods.

In April, 1847, the Commissioners authorised the collector of excise, Parsonstown, 'to give such indulgence in payment to each tenant as their circumstance may require', when a number of tenants appealed for lenience.

The leases foe twenty-one years expire in 1850 when an arrear of rent of £1,531 14s. 9d. had accumulated. It was then decided to remove the 'surplus population'; to redivide the land among those selected from the remaining tenants and to abandon the collection of arrears. The friction and unrest which arose from this redivision was the cause of an inquiry by a select committee of the House of Lords into the management of the estate. Fifty-six persons left Kilconcouse at a cost of £363 19s. 8d.

EMIGRANTS FROM KILCONCOUSE
Itinerary Dublin - Liverpool - New York
Name
Age
 Personal Details Date of Departure Liverpool Date of Arrival New York Ship
Blake:

Edward
50
 No relationship specified 11th June 18524
James
03
Ann
25
Sarah
20
Sarah
01
Dunn William
45

Ann
43
 Wife
James
08
 Son
William
06
 Son
Biddy
19
Daughter
Fitzgerald: James
55
Margaret
58
 Wife
James
16
 Son
Hanoria
18
 Daughter
Margaret
19
 Daughter
Fitzgerald: John
42
Ellen
30
 Wife
Denis
12
 Son
Thomas
08
 Son
Margaret
10
 Daughter
Horan: Patrick
30
Catherine
29
 Wife
John
03
 Son
Ann
07
 Daughter
Catherine
05
 Daughter
Margaret
12
 Daughter
Mary
10
 Daughter

Karney or
Kearney:

 Patrick
45
Ann
37
 Wife
Joseph
11
 Son
Pat
18
 Son
Thomas
16
 Son
William
08
 Son
Ann
14
 Daughter
Mary
21
 Daughter
Kenehan: John
45
Mary
37
 Wife
Jeremiah
16
 Son
John
12
 Son
Matthew
18
 Son
William
06
 Son
Ann
08
 Daughter
Kennedy: Peter
63
Mary
50
 Wife
Lowry5: Patrick
40
Ann
43
 Wife
John
20
 Son
Ann
12
 Daughter
Sarah
17
 Daughter
Spain: Biddy
30
Catherine
25
 Sister
White: Mary
38
James
13
 Son
John
08
 Son
Bridget
16
 Daughter
Mary
05
 Daughter

Notes:

  1. Q.R.O., O.W. Land Revenue Series Letter Books, Report of H. Tyrrell on Distress, c. 21 May 1846.
  2. Ibid., Commissioners of Woods to Burke, 8 April 1847.
  3. Report from the select committee of the House of Lords . . . into the Management. . . of Kilconcouse, etc., 1854, xxi, 3.
  4. All the emigrants from Kilconcouse sailed from Liverpool on the 11 June 1852 with one exception, Patrick Lowry. It is therefore unnecessary to repeat dates of departure with each family group.
  5. Q.R.O., Files of Forfeiture Office and Miscellaneous Papers, File No. 5, Burke to Commissioners of Woods, 3 September 1852, states that as Patrick Lowry has only one eye he was judged 'unfit for New York' and was sent to Philadelphia instead.