Cummins, Neil; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2020
Very little is known about wealth-holding and its distribution in Ireland in the past. Here we employ death duty … register data to analyse and identify a sample of the top wealth holders in Ireland between the early 1820s and late 1830s. We … examine the sources of their wealth and its regional spread, and compare them with their British counterparts. We also discuss …