Estate: Browne (Cloonfad)

Associated Families

• O'Conor/O'Conor Don
• Browne (Cloonfad)

Description

Melvin writes that this was a wealthy branch of the Browne family. Catherine daughter of Martin Browne of Cloonfad, county Roscommon married Denis O'Conor of Bellanagare and they were the parents of the antiquarian Charles O'Conor (1764-1828). Martin Browne's other daughter with a dowry of £2,500 married Thomas Lynch of Lowberry in 1782. By the time of Griffith's Valuation Mrs Margaret Browne retained 66 acres at Cloonfad More and a house valued at £4. The Brownes held Cloonfad from the Mahons of Strokestown. Father Martin Coen indicates that George Joseph Plunkett Browne was a member of this family. He was born in 1795 and was Bishop of Galway and subsequently of Elphin in the 1830s and 1840s .

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	OS Grid Reference / Map
Cloonfad Home of the Browne family in the 18th and 19th centuries.	Cloonfad More	Aughrim	Carrick on Shannon	Aughrim East 45	Roscommon	Roscommon	M943 943 Discovery map #33. OS Sheet #11.

Archival sources

• National Library of Ireland: Map of Cloonfad Beg in the barony & county of Roscommon. 21 F 45 (110)
• Tuam Diocesan Archives: Fr. Martin Heaney Collection, Mayo Abbey. P45/09/03: 114

Contemporary printed sources

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1850-1858. : Carrick on Shannon Union, 54
• LEGG, Marie Louise (ed). Census of Elphin 1749. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2004: 44
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol I, 98
• ORDNANCE SURVEY FIELD NAME BOOKS, County Roscommon: Vol I, 53

Modern printed sources

• Jnl. of the Old Athlone Society: COEN, Martin. George Joseph Plunkett Browne. II No 5 (1978), 26-31
• MELVIN, Patrick. The Galway Tribes as Landowners and Gentry. In MORAN, Gerard (ed). Galway: History & Society. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1996 : 319-374

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