Pat, There are very few surviving records for this estate. Looking at Griffiths Valuation for Donagheady (1858), there are many labourers’ cottages within both Lisnacloon Upper and Lower and none of them of great value; most likely consisting of two rooms, constructed of mud and stone with straw (not thatched) roofs.
Referring to William Roulston’s “Three Centuriees of Life in a Tyrone Parish: A History of Donagheady from 1600 to 1900” (2010) available as an ebook https://www.cotyroneireland.com/estore/index.php?detailrecid=15 there is a deal of information covering the Lisnacloon estate. During the Famine, William Ogilby undertook works projects offering employment to large numbers of the destitute and starving. In a letter of 1848 he claimed he was “daily employing 300 to 400 hands representing probably from 1,500 to 2,000 human beings who would otherwise have starved or been thrown on the rates [workhouse], so that if I do myself future good, I am conferring a great private benefit to the county”. Life was certainly tough in the bad old days. None of the 300-400 labourers would have held a lease on their humble residences: they were merely day labourers occupying one of the estate cottages “at will”. The estate found itself in considerable financial difficulties in the 1870s and went to sale 1901-04. Rachel Dysart generously transcribed the sale papers some years ago and contributed a file to CTI https://www.cotyroneireland.com/index.html You can locate it at https://www.cotyroneireland.com/estates/ogilby2.html CTI is a great website! Regards, LEN Swindley, Melbourne, Australia Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Pat O'Fallon via CoTyroneList<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 20 August 2019 12:29 PM To: CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List<mailto:[email protected]> Cc: Pat O'Fallon<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Thanks Thanks, I’ll try it. Pat Sent from my iPad On Aug 19, 2019, at 16:29, Peter Kincaid via CoTyroneList <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I vaguely recall that an Donagheady Parish researcher was trying to track down the Ogilby Estate records and had some luck - my fading memory thinks there were in London or somewhere in England. I believe her name was Teena and her last email address was [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Peter
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