Burke's Irish Family Records. by BURKE'S IRISH FAMILY RECORDS

London: Burke's Peerage Ltd., 1976. Large 8vo, 1237pp.. orig. red cloth lettered in gilt, spine a little worn. "This is the fifth edition of a collection of narrative pedigrees of individual Irish families which do not have hereditary peerages or baronetcies. When these families first had a book of their own (Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1899), the criterion for inclusion was territorial. At the turn of the century their ownership of land in Ireland was, on average, about 1,000 acres. In 1903, however, the whole concept changed with the Wyndham Land Purchase Act."—Preface.