![]() ![]() Some of the rental records for Corroy townland for 1904 and 1906, showing rentals paid and owing. The first column shows Present Yearly Rents vary from 1 to 8 pounds; the second gives the dates for Orders for Judicial Rent; next is Arrears from last account to 1st May 1904; then Further rent accrued to 1st May 1906, followed by the total.
Rental records for 1906 show tenants continued to fall behind in their rental payments, but that these amounts were carried over, in this case for two years. Most of these names appear on earlier petitions, showing they continued on at Drumdaff despite their debts. Thomas Oats, for instance, was a signatory to the 1881 petition for rental reduction, and by 1904 was in arrears for four pounds ten shillings, with a further nine pounds due on 1st May 1906, making a total of thirteen pounds and ten shillings.
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