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Estate: Tottenham
Associated Families
Description
The Tottenham family's main properties were based in Leinster, especially in the Counties of Wicklow and Wexford. However, they held significant property in Leitrim, Roscommon and Sligo also. In 1802 McParlan recorded Mr. Tottenham as a non-resident proprietor in county Leitrim. The main house was at Glenfarne but the family also held property at Glenade. Members of the family served as High Sheriffs of Leitrim on six occasions in the nineteenth century between 1820-1898. The estate in county Leitrim amounted to over 14,500 acres in the 1870s. Almost 6000 acres was offered for sale in the Land Judges' Court in 1878 and 1883. In 1766 Charles Tottenham of New Ross, county Wexford, brother of Nicholas Loftus Tottenham of Glenfarne, married Frances Boswell, daughter and heiress of Robert Boswell of Ballycurry, county Wicklow. Frances Boswell owned land in the parish of Kilronan, barony of Boyle, county Roscommon and in the parishes of Ahamlish and Drumrat, county Sligo, in the 18th century. In 1814 Charles Tottenham of Glenfarne married Dorothea daughter and heiress of George Crowe of Nutfield, county Clare. Dorothea Tottenham held land in the parishes of Templemaley, barony of Bunratty Upper and Tulla, barony of Tulla Upper at the time of Griffith's Valuation.Houses
| House Name / Description | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | OS Grid Reference / Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Glenfarne Hall
Glenfarne Hall, overlooking Lough MacNean, was built around 1820 for Charles Henry Tottenham. In 1906 it was owned by Col. J.G. Adamson and was valued at £50. It was subsequently a holiday home of Edward Harland of Harland & Wolf shipyards in Belfast. The 1943 Irish Tourist Association survey recorded that only the gutted ruins of the house remained.The area has been extensively afforested since then and is now part of a forest park owned by Coillte. |
Ardmoneen | Clooneclare | Manorhamilton | Glenfarne 52 | Dromahaire | Leitrim | H018386 Discovery map #26. OS Sheet #13. |
Brookfield House
Arthur Loftus Tottenham was leasing a house valued at £14 to James Tate here in 1856. |
Cherrybrook | Clooneclare | Manorhamilton | Kiltyclogher 58 | Rosclogher | Leitrim | G913398 Discovery map #16. OS Sheet #8, 12. |
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Glineda
Loftus Tottenham was the owner of a property valued at £20 at Largydonnell, parish of Rossinver at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The sale in 1878 included this property. |
Largydonnell | Rossinver | Ballyshannon | Aghanlish 2 | Rosclogher | Leitrim | G802515 Discovery map #16. OS Sheet #4. |
Archival sources
- Leitrim County Library: Irish Tourist Association. Topographical and General Survey, 1941-1945. Parish of Cloonclare. File 131.
- Leitrim County Library: National Archives documents relating to Tottenham estate in Rossinver parish. File 192.
- National Archives of Ireland: Papers relating to Tottenham estate at Castletehin, county Roscommon, 18th-19th century. Hoey & Denning collection. Small Accs. Index 99
- National Archives of Ireland: Landed Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Tottenham, 29 November 1878, Vol 134, MRGS 39/060, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
- National Archives of Ireland: Landed Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Tottenham, 20 July 1883, Vol 145, MRGS 39/064, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
- National Library of Ireland: Maps of the estate of Nicholas Loftus Tottenham, 1797. Ms.9837.
- National Library of Ireland: Rental of estate of Ponsonby Tottenham, 1803. Ms.10, 162.
- National Library of Ireland: Map of Tottenham estate, barony of Tireragh, county Sligo. 16 I 10.
- National Library of Ireland: Map of Upper & Lower Finnod, parish of Easky, esate of Charles Tottenham, 1801. 16 I 16.
- National Library of Ireland: Rent ledger of estate of Frances Boswell in the parish of Kilronan, Co Roscommon and Ahamlish and Drumrat, Co Sligo. Microfilm copy P.4937
- National Library of Ireland: Mount Callan Papers, account of the Mount Callan estate & its occupiers 1837-1923, continued from Col Synge’s account by R. G. Tottenham, Mount Callan, Inagh. Microfilm P 4910
- National Library of Ireland: Longfield Maps, surveys of the lands of Maghry [Cappahard], Thiernaderry [Derry] & Faunriss[Faunrusk], parish of Templemaley, barony of Bunratty, county Clare, estate of C.H. Tottenham, 1815. 21 F. 32 (31-32)
- National Library of Ireland: Longfield Maps, survey of lands of Doonane & Drummaghmartin, barony of Tulla, county Clare, estate of Tottenham esq, let to Henry Molony, 1815. 21 F. 32 (36)
- Private Possession: Contact National Library of Ireland
- Sligo County Library: Rentals of Tottenham (& Langley, Thompson) estates in parish of Ballysumaghan, 1850. F.C./D.4/18.
Contemporary printed sources
- GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1850-1858.: Manorhamilton Union, 2. Ballyshannon Union, 33.
- HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878: 447
- LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol I, 352.
- McPARLAN, James. Statistical Survey of the county of Leitrim. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1802. : 110.
- ORDNANCE SURVEY FIELD NAME BOOKS, County Leitrim: Vol Ii, 541.
- ORDNANCE SURVEY FIELD NAME BOOKS, County Sligo: 359
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 218 (Ballynoe)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 323, 306.
Modern printed sources
- Ó DUIGNEÁIN, P. North Leitrim in Famine times. Manorhamilton: Drumlin Publications, 1986. : 12
- Breifne: Mac an GHALLOGLAIGH, Domhnall. The Land League in Leitrim, 1879-1883. VI, 22 (1983-84), 161-168.
- Breifne: GRIMES, Seamus. The changing rural landscape of North Leitrim from the mid-17th to the mid-20th century. III, 11 (1968), 340-346.
- BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 212 (Mount Callan)
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1912: 698
- DAY, Angélique & McWILLIAMS, Patrick (eds). Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland; counties of South Ulster. Belfast: Inst. of Irish Studies, 1998. : 50
- HARRISON, A (compiler). A roll of all gentlemen....High Sheriffs, MPs & other officers of county Leitrim, 1600-1909. Carrick-on-Shannon: printed by P. Brennan, 1910. : 9-14.
- KAVANAGH, Art & MURPHY, Rory. Wexford Gentry. Vols. 1 & 2. Bunclody: Irish Family Names, 1994. : Vol. II. Tottenham of Tottenham Green, 200-215.
- MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 1109-1114.
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Supplementary report on the Tottenham papers. N..311.
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Supplementary report on the Tottenham papers. No. 51
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Tottenham papers froms 1663. No. 182.
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Supplementary report on the Tottenham papers, No. 386.
- Ó RUNAÍ, Lorcan. From Rosclogher to Rooskey: the Leitrim story [n.p]: Cumann Seanchas Ros Inbhir, 1996: 207-209.
Landed Estates Database, 1.2.3 23 Sep 2009