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Great Irish Households no-tag When DNA uncovers links toThe value of inventories in charting how houses were arranged, furnished and used is now widely appreciated. Typically, the listings and valuations were occasioned by the death of an owner and the consequent need to deal with testamentary dispositions. That was not always so. The inventory for Castlecomer House, Co. Kilkenny, for example, was drawn up to make a claim following the houses devastation in the 1798 uprising. Mostly hitherto unpublished,