Estate: Whyte (Newtown Manor)

Associated Families

• Whyte (Carrickfad)
• St George (Carrick-on-Shannon)

Description

Colonel John James Whyte is recorded as the owner of over 9000 acres in county Leitrim in the 1880s. At the time of Griffith's Valuation he held property in the parish of Drumlease, barony of Dromahaire. He lived at Newtown Manor, sometimes described as Dromahaire and sometimes as Sligo. He also had a house at Glencar Lodge, county Leitrim. In 1874 Charles Cecil Beresford Whyte married Petronella Halberg of Swedan, who succeeded to the estates of Charles Manners St George in counties Leitrim & Roscommon. In 1906 Charles B. Whyte was the owner of over 1000 acres of untenanted land at Scramore as well as the mansion house at Carrickfad. In 1911 an offer was accepted from the Congested Districts Board on over 9,000 acres of the Whyte estate.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Newtown Manor (H383) A house built after the publication of the First Ordnance Survey map. John James Whyte held this property in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when itwas valued at £12. Slater notes that it was the residence of Captain Edward T. Pottinger in 1894. In 1906 Charles B. Whyte was the owner of the house at Carrickfad valued at £22. It is no longer extant.	Carrickfad	Drumlease	Manorhamilton	Scramore 10	Dromahaire	Leitrim	Lat/Lon: 54.27498 -8.33008 OSI Ref: G785363 Discovery map #. OS Sheet #10.
Hatley Manor (H449) This house was built c. 1830. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Charles St. George was leasing it to Diana Faris. It was later inherited by the Whyte family of Newtown Manor and is recorded by Slater as the seat of Charles C. Beresford Whyte in 1894. It is still extant and had been in use by the Bank of America. In April 2007 it was offered for sale.	Townparks	Kiltoghert	Carrick-on-Shannon	Carrick-on-Shannon 28	Leitrim	Leitrim	Lat/Lon: 53.96631 -8.09143 OSI Ref: G940019 Discovery map #33. OS Sheet #27.

Archival sources

• National Library of Ireland: Twenty two volumes of rentals & accounts of the estates of Mrs. Petronella Whyte in counties Longford & Roscommon, 1873-1896. MSS. 4023-4044.

Contemporary printed sources

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• 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. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 477
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 348.
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland, [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 49
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 306
• SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) : xxviii, 71 (Hatley Manor), xxxi, 88 (Newtown Manor, Pottinger)

Modern printed sources

• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 658-659

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