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1826
'Records, Irish Land Commission: Applotment book, Parish of Kilmacreehy (Diocese of Kilfenora)'
Ballycottine (54 farmers, including)
- Luke Greene leased 4 acres
(this is likely to be the Luke married in 1825)
- William Greene 26 acres (£1-4-10) & (£0-4-6)
(this is likely to be my great great grandfather, born c. 1810)
- Pat Greene
- Pat Greene junior, along with Pat Hynes and Michael OLoghlin held land in common.
(As stated above, Albert Greene believes that Luke, William and Patrick were brothers. Also, Albert says "The Hynes household (standing today, was) formerly William Greene's homestead"). (Francis Hynes married Annie Greene?)Liscannor
- Wm. Greene (£1-4-6)
Laghcloon (next to Liscannor)
- Wm Greene (£1-4-5)
Doughoconnor (?)
- Michael Malone (Albert Greene's great great great great grandfather no direct relation to our line Albert lives on the same land today)
Kilconnell, Ballylane & other areas: a John Neagle & several Neagles
Life in Clare
According to Peter Mulquiney, two to three acres was regarded as necessary for the proper support of a large family. The west and south west seaboard of Clare, he says (the areas where Greenes mainly lived) held "a very poor and numerous class of impoverished small land-holders".
For the tenant farmer who could live above the poverty line the food was simple but healthy oatmeal, bread, tea, butter, an occasional egg, sometimes fish but very rarely meat. Most families near the coast kept a store of dried herrings that were bought from fishermen. Vegetables were cabbage, turnips, carrots, parsnips and lots of potatoes. The common fuel was turf or peat. Donkeys and horses were the only mode of transport.
In 1838 a lady in a group visiting from Scotland, being accommodated in a lodging house at Lahinch reported that the residence was dirty, that the group was put into one very small room with inadequate furniture, that the kitchen had a clay floor and they were obliged to cook over a turf fire on the floor.
Clare became known as the banner country in 1828, with the election of Daniel O'Connell, a barrister, as Member of Parliament for Clare, forcing the removal of the remaining Penal laws, such as one which didn't allow an Irish Catholic to become a member of Parliament.
With Catholic emancipation came a rapid population increase the population doubled between 1800 and 1845. The population increase between 1800 and 1841 for Clare might have been the most rapid in Ireland.
1829
List of Freeholders (from Freeholders of Clare 1829)
Corcomroe Barony (West Corcomroe includes Kilmacreehy) (lists only one Greene)
- William Greene. Place of abode & situation of freehold - Liscannor .Valuation - 10 Place & date of registration Ennistymon June 8, 1829
- John Nagle. Ennistymon
- Healy (John, Carhadoo; John, Ennistymon; Michael, Carhaduff; Daniel, Moymore; Patrick, Ennistimon)
(Ann Healy married Luke Greene in 1825, witnessed by Thomas Healy)