Subsidy Rolls 1662-1668

Subsidy Rolls list the nobility, clergy and laity who paid a grant in aid to the crown. The rolls list the persons of means in the community who were subject to the payment of subsidies, which then formed the government's main method of direct taxation. Details are given of the name of each person, where they lived (usually a townland) and the amount of subsidy that they paid. The amount of the subsidy was based on the valuation of either the person's land or goods.

Because they include only the wealthier members of society, they are less useful than hearth money rolls. Nevertheless, the hearth rolls are incomplete in many areas and the subsidy rolls do provide a useful substitute in those parishes that are deficient.

SUBSIDY ROLLS PRONI
Antrim 1666 T/808/14889 
Cavan 1662 T/808/15142 
Donegal 1662 T/808/14998
Donegal 1669 T/808/15003 
Down 1663 T/307A 
Fermanagh 1662 T/808/15068 (Enniskillen town only) 
Londonderry 1662 D/4164/A/14; T/716/4, 15; T/1592/19 
Tyrone 1664 T/283/D/1; T/808/15092 
Tyrone 1668 T/808/15097
AVAILABLE SUBSIDY ROLLS, COUNTY L'DERRY (1662)
PARISH
REFERENCE
Coleraine
PRONI D/4164/A/14
Killowen
PRONI D/4164/A/14
Dunboe
PRONI D/4164/A/14
Macosquin
PRONI D/4164/A/14
Tamlaght Finlagan (Ballykelly)
PRONI T/1592/19 and T/716/15
Drumachose (Limavady)
PRONI T/1592/19
Faughanvale
PRONI T/1592/19 and T/716/15
Glendermott
PRONI T/1592/19
Tamlaghtard (Magilligan)
PRONI T/1592/19
Cumber
PRONI T/1592/19; T/716/15 and page 110 of ‘Cumber Presbyterian Church and parish’ by John Rutherford (pub 1939)
City and Liberties of Derry
PRONI T/1592/19
Ballyscullion
PRONI T/716/4
Desertlyn
PRONI T/716/4
Ballinderry
PRONI T/716/4
Magherafelt
PRONI T/716/4
Aghanloo
Page 14 Samuel Martin’s, ‘Historical Gleanings from County Derry’.
Aghadowey
Page 81-82 of ‘L’Derry in three centuries’ by J.W Kernohan (pub 1921). With the hearth money rolls.
Desertoghill
Page 82 of ‘L’Derry in three centuries’ by J.W Kernohan (pub 1921). With the hearth money rolls.
Errigal
Page 83 of ‘L’Derry in three centuries’ by J.W Kernohan (pub 1921). With the hearth money rolls.

                                         Subsidy Roll County Tyrone, 1668
Subsidy roll for the parishes of Donagheady, Leck and Urney parishes 1668






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