Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/237576 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP20/29
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD Centre for Economic Research, Dublin
Abstract: 
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 the share of Catholics and Quakers among top wealth-holders.
Subjects: 
inequality
wealth
Ireland
JEL: 
N13
D31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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