Meath - Sale for part of Estate of Robert Shields of Wyanstown

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SALE FOR PART OF ESTATE OF ROBERT SHIELDS OF WYANSTOWN

To be sold together or in parcels, the following lands in
the County of Meath, part of the Estate of Robert Shields of
Wyanstown, in said County, within two miles of Dunboyne and
nine of Dublin.

TOWNSLAND          TENANTS NAMES   ACRES  RENTS     LEASES
Rowanstown         Matt. CORBALLY  166    £66.08.0  31 Years
Cookestown         James GERNON	   137    £66.0.0   31 Years
Big Growtown       B. WINSLOW      72     £36.0.0   3 Lives
Little Growtown    John KENNEDY    64     £27.14.10 21 Years
Harlickstown       Christ. KENNEDY 37     £21.14.0  21 Years
Ballygurtha        Will. SHEILDS   178    £67.14.3  3 Lives & 31 Years.

**Ballygurtha is a lease for lives renewable for ever, at
44/. Per year and half a year's rent on the fall of every
life. Note-There is good turf on this land. Profit rent £67.
Proposals to be received by the said Robert Shields at
Wyanstown, aforesaid, or Mt. Richard Wilson in Darby-Square,
Warborough-Stree, in whose hands are all the Title Deeds.

Source:
24-10-1747 From the Dublin Journal. County of Meath