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(Estate) French (Prospect) -
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(Estate) French/ffrench (Frenchfort) -
(Estate) French (Fort William) -
(House) Moycullen Lodge - Home of the French family in the 18th century.
(House) Bopeep Lodge - A Blakeney property that was leased to H. French in the 1830s and to Robert French in the 1850s.
(Estate) French (Boyle) - John R. French, with an address at Elgin Road, Dublin, held over 500 acres in county Roscommon in the 1870s.
(Estate) French (Tulsk) - This French family are descended from an uncle of the 1st Lord de Freyne of French Park. At the time of Griffith's Valuation William John French's estate was in the parishes of Kilcooley and Ogulla, barony and county of Roscommon. In the 1870s William J. French of Blackhall, Navan, county Meath, owned 1,214 acres in county Roscommon. An estate of 1,220 acres belonging to Captain Peregrine Maitland French, third son of William John French was vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 1 Nov 1915.
(House) Oakport - Oakport was the home of the Reverend William French, fourth son of John French of French Park, in the early 18th century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Oakport House, the property of Thomas William Goff, is recorded as "unoccupied".
(Estate) French (Rocklawn) - The French estate amounted to over 800 acres in the 1870s including the townlands of Cloon and Pollaghrevagh in the parish of Claregalway, barony of Dunkellin. By 1906 Richard French was the owner of over 160 acres of untenanted land in the area. Following land agitation in the area the French family left Rocklawn.
(Estate) French (Cloonyquin) - ''Burke's Irish Family Records'' states that Arthur French of Tyrone bought Cloonyquin from the Right Honourable William Conolly, who had bought it from the Trustess of Irish Forfeitures. From Arthur French's second marriage to the widow of Iriel Farrell of Cloonyquin descend this branch of the French family. Arthur French of Cloonyquin bought part of the estate of Colonel John Browne of Westport in the barony of Ballymoe, county Galway, in the late 17th century. In 1828 William French of Clooniquin was a member of the Grand Panel of county Roscommon. By the mid 19th century the French estate was in the parish of Elphin, barony of Roscommon. Some of it was leased by Patrick Taaffe of Foxborough. Christopher French of Cloonyquin owned 3,701 acres in county Roscommon in the 1870s. Part of the French estate was conveyed to the Congested Districts' Board in July 1906.
(Estate) French Brewster - The French Brewsters like the Frenches of Tulsk and Castle Bernard, county Offaly, were descended from Robert Henry French of Dublin, an uncle of the 1st Lord de Freyne. In the mid 19th century the representatives of Henry [Sneyd] French held land in the parishes of Kilcooley and Killukin, barony of Roscommon. In the 1870s the French Brewster estate was comprised of 1,415 acres in county Roscommon with smaller acreages in counties Dublin, Carlow and Wicklow.
(House) French Park - At the time of Griffith's Valuation Frenchpark was owned by Rev. John Ffrench, Lord de Freyne and was valued at £60. In the 1749 Census of Elphin it was the residence of Arthur and Lady French. Members of the French family were buried in the graveyard surrounding the ruins of Frenchpark Priory.
(Estate) French (Elmhill) - A branch of the French family owned a small estate in the parish of Moylough, barony of Tiaquin, county Galway, centred on their residence at Elmhill. Elmhill, comprised of 433 acres was offered for sale in the Landed Estates’ Court in June 1869 by Francis Joseph French.
(Estate) French (Annaghmore) - Annaghmore East, parish of Moylough, barony of Tiaquin, county Galway, was advertised for sale in 1852 by the Naghten family. Francis A. French is recorded as the immediate lessor of this townland in Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s Francis French was listed as the owner of over 300 acres in county Galway.
(Estate) French (Frenchbrook) - Extensive lands in counties Mayo and Galway were granted to George French between 1677 and 1679. He settled at Frenchbrook in the parish of Kilmainemore, barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo. His daughter and heiress married Denis Daly of Carrownakelly, county Galway from whom descend the Dalys of Dunsandle, inheritors of the French estate.
(House) Cloonyquin - Home of the French family, including the song writer Percy French, sold by the family in the 1950s and subsequently demolished. Valued at £24 in the mid 19th century. The house was demolished in the 1960.
(Estate) French (Tyrone) - Jeffrey French was granted various lands in counties Mayo, Galway, Roscommon and Clare by patent dated 10 Aug 1678. His brother Arthur French of Tyrone, county Galway, Mayor of Galway 1691, had 2 sons Christopher from whom descend the French/St George family of Tyrone and Arthur ancestor of the French family of Cloonyquin, parish of Elphin, barony of Roscommon, county Roscommon. Patrick French of Brook Lodge, parish of Killererin, barony of Clare, county Galway, was a younger son of Christopher of Tyrone. Burke writes that Arthur French, Christopher's heir was involved in a case in the House of Lords 1764-1765 French v Caddell. In 1736 he married Olivia Usher sister of St George Usher St George of Headford, county Galway, created Baron St George of Hatley St George. Their son Christopher assumed the surname St George in 1774 in compliance with his great grandfather's will.
(House) Foxborough - Occupied by Patrick Taaffe at the time of Griffith's Valuation, who was leasing from Christopher French.
(Estate) French (Frenchgrove) - Patrick Melvin writes that this family claimed to have held the Frenchgrove estate from the mid 17th century. An estate in the parish of Kilcommon, barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo, was held by James French in the 19th century. By the time of the first Ordnance Survey the Frenchs appear to be residing in Tuam. Their agent and receiver was Mr Bolton. In 1876 the representatives of James French owned 667 acres in county Mayo. Martin Kirwan of Frenchgrove was recorded as a resident landlord for the barony of Kilmaine in 1802. He was married to Bridget French.
(Estate) French /ffrench (Frenchpark) - Patrick French fitzStephen of Galway is recorded as the earliest member of the family to be associated with Frenchpark. He died in 1667 and is buried in the ruined priory there. In March 1666/7 his son Dominick French of Frenchpark was granted over 5,000 acres in the barony of Boyle, county Roscommon and his grandson John French received a further 2,000 acres in the barony of Ballymoe in 1677. His descendant Arthur French was created Baron de Freyne in the Irish Peerage on 5 April 1851. Arthur French was a member of the Grand Panel for county Roscommon in 1828. The French family owned property in Roscommon, Leitrim and Sligo. George French is recorded as owning over 500 acres in county Leitrim in the 1870s. In the 1870s Lord de Freyne owned 25,436 acres in county Roscommon, 4,052 acres in county Sligo and 328 acres in county Galway. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, he was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Castlemore, Kilnamanagh and Tibohine, barony of Frenchpark and in the parish of Cloonygormican, barony of Ballymoe, county Roscommon. The Cloonshanville estate, forming part of the French Park house demesne, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates' Court in February 1870. Over 36,000 acres of the French Park estate was vested in the Congested Districts' Board in July 1906.
(Estate) French (Frenchlawn & Frenchbrook) - Martin J. Blake writes that the ancestor of this branch of the French family was Simon A. Hyacinth French of Frenchbrook near Elphin, county Roscommon, second son of Arthur French of Tyrone, county Galway and his wife Sarah Farrell. Arthur French succeeded his father Simon and married Arabella O'Rourke in 1765. In 1774 his sister Jane married Captain Joseph Burke of London and Auberries, great uncle of Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms and author of Burke's Peerage and Landed Gentry. Arthur and Arabella French are stated to have had 6 sons, including Robert Henry French of Innfield and later of Kiltullagh, Jeffrey Martin French of Rocksavage and Toomona and William French of Frenchlawn. Martin J. Blake writes that Jeffrey M. French married a sister of Peter O'Connor of Toomona and succeeded his brother in law at Toomona. He had a daughter Maria French of Larchgrove, who in the 1870s is recorded as owning 665 acres in county Roscommon. In 1788 Robert Henry French married a Miss Donnellan and had a son Robert French of Larchgrove. Other descendants intermarried with the Brownes of Mount Browne, Strokestown and Clonfad and Martin J. Blake states that some family members were living at Dangan in the early 20th century. The Frenchlawn branch of the family occupied their estate up to the early 19th century. Papers in the National Archives seem to indicate financial difficulties after this as a receiver was appointed. By the time of Griffith's Valuation, Frenchlawn was part of the Sandford estate and was being leased by the Glancey family.
(House) Frenchlawn - At the time of Griffith's Valuation, the estate of William W.R. Sandford was leasing a property valued at £12 at Frenchlawn, barony of Castlereagh, to James Glancey. In 1837 Lewis recorded Frenchlawn as the seat of Mrs. French. In 1814 it was the residence of Christopher French. There is still an occupied house at this site.
(Estate) French (Brooklodge) - At least two generations of Frenches, a junior branch of the Frenches of Tyrone, lived on the Brooklodge estate in the late 18th century. It was held on a lease dated 1775 from Ambrose Deane to Christopher French. The lease was bought from the Frenches by Thomas Hynes in 1808 and sold on in 1813 to the Blakes of Ballyglunin, with whom the Frenches had intermarried.
(Estate) French (Carrarea) - An estate granted by patent to Ignatius French in 1677. A succession of Ignatius Frenches owned the estate throughout the 18th century and early 19th century. The family became indebted to the Dublin money lender Jasper Villiers Fowler and the estate was sold in the Encumbered Estates' Court circa 1853.
(Estate) French (Corgary) - An estate in the barony of Tiaquin, county Galway, established in the late 16th century by a younger son of Peter French, Mayor of Galway, 1576-1577. Abbert in the parish of Monivea was sold to the Blakeneys by 1720 and Corgary/Corgerry, parish of Killoscobe, to the Joyces circa 1806.
(Estate) French (Moycullen) - Martin J. Blake states that John French Fitz Stephen was given 2,200 acres by the Cromwellian Commissioners, at Moycullen, county Galway, as a tranplanted person. His son Thomas was confirmed in his possession by patent under the Acts of Settlement. Four generations of Frenchs held this estate until the death of Thomas French of Moycullen in the early 1780s. He is recorded as residing at Moycullen on the Taylor and Skinner map. Martin J. Blake refers to the sale of the French's Moycullen estate following a law suit after the death of Thomas. At least some of the estate was in the possession of Andrew Henry Lynch in 1851 when he sold it to Lord Campbell.
(Estate) French (Barnaboy) - Patrick French owned the townland of Barnaboy, 299 acres in the parish of Athenry, barony of Clare, county Galway, in the mid 19th century. Earlier, according to the Ordnance Survey Field Name books, the townland belonged to the Burke family. Barnaboy was advertised for sale in the Landed Estates' Court by the trustees of the will of Frances Maria French in 1866 and 1867. Thomas Cullinane was the main tenant.
(Estate) French (Moneen) - In 1667 Matthew French was granted over 4,000 acres in the barony of Tiaquin, county Galway, including the commons of Menlough and nearly a thousand acres in the barony of Clanmorris, county Mayo. Gregory Anthony French of Moneen, later known as Vermount, sold his estate of 715 acres in the parish of Ballymacward, barony of Tiaquin, county Galway, to James Blake of Waterdale in 1801.
(Estate) French (Elphin) - At the time of Griffith's Valuation the representatives of Arthur Joseph French held townlands in the parishes of Elphin, Killukin and Kilcooley, barony and county of Roscommon. This estate appears to have come into the possession of Christopher Copinger, who advertised it for sale in the Landed Estates' Court in May 1862. [In the 1870s Arthur French of Johnstown, Naas, county Kildare, owned 1,570 acres in county Roscommon and 1,706 in county Sligo.]
(Estate) French (Errit Lodge) - In the mid 19th century the Right Honourable Fitzstephen French of Erritt Lodge, Member of Parliament for county Roscommon and younger brother of the 1st Lord de Freyne, owned an estate in the parish of Taghmaconnell, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon, which he purchased in 1852 from Moore of Cloonbigny. He also held property in the parish of Tibohine, barony of Frenchpark and in the parish of Kiltrustan, barony of Roscommon. In the 1870s the representatives of Fitzstephen French owned 12,270 acres in county Roscommon, 1,224 acres in county Sligo and 79 acres in county Cork. In 1874 over 7000 acres of Fitzstephen French's estate in the barony of Frenchpark, known as "the Bishop's Lands" was offered for sale in the Landed Estates' Court. This land was held on lease from 1863 from Lord de Freyne's estate. In November 1878 lands amounting to 3,817 acres in the baronies of Athlone and Castlereagh were advertised for sale in the Land Judges' Court. The owners and petitioners were Louisa F.C.M. Bridges and Augusta S.F.G. French, the 2 daughters and co heiresses of Fitzstephen French.
(House) Crumlin - Built in 1844, later altered and extended by Cecil Henry in the style of a French chateau. The house was sold to the Land Commission in 1913 and to John Costello in 1917, whose grandson renovated it and the courtyard in the early 1990s.
(House) Glennagloughaun North - A building valued at £12 was occupied by Digby French at the time of Griffith's Valuation, this may have been the old charter school marked on the first Ordnance Survey map.
(House) Rocklawn - The OS Field Name Books give the name of this houose as Rockland and state that it was the residence of the Browne family though they claim that the townland of Pollaghrevagh was the property of Lord Clanmorris. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was occupied by James French and was valued at £12. By 1906 it was owned by Richard French. Rocklawn House is no longer extant. It is described as "in ruins" on the 1933 printing of the 6" OS sheet for Galway.
(House) Caher - Charles French was leasing the house at Caher, barony of Frenchpark, valued at £16, from Lord de Freyne's estate, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Lewis also records the house as the residence of C. French in 1837. In the same year the Ordnance Survey Field Name books record Caher as a "dwelling house of three stories and slated". In the 1749 Census of Elphin F. Elwood was recorded as residing at Caher. By 1894 it was the residence of the Dowager Lady de Freyne.
(Estate) French (Cuillaun) - A Francis French held an estate at Cuillaun, parish of Kilvine, barony of Clanmorris, county Mayo in the early 19th century, possibly from the Blakes of Doonmacreena. The Honourable Geoffrey Browne was the immediate lessor in the 1850s and Cuillaun was part of the Oranmore and Browne estates advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court in 1854. By the 1870s Cuillane belonged to Edward Rush.
(House) Glenmore - At the time of the first Ordnance Survey Glenmore was occupied by the Rev St George Knox, curate of Crossmolina, as the Ormes were living in Dublin. Glenmore became the property of Godfrey Fetherstonhaugh after the 1853 sale. His mother was an Orme of Abbeytown. Well maintained and owned by a French family who advertised the sale of the house in September 2006.
(House) Kylemore Abbey - A very large residence built in the late 1860s for Mitchell Henry with extensive gardens, incorporating the former Kylemore Lodge. Later a home of the Duke and Duchess of Manchester. Now a school and tourist business run by a French order of Benedictine nuns.
(House) Doorus House - Dooras House was built by the French family in the 18th century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Count de Basterot was leasing this property from Henry Comerford. In 1906 Count de Basterot was the owner of a mansion house valued at £10 here. O'Connell records that the house was demolished about 1917-18.
(House) Castleffrench - Castle ffrench is said to have been built c.1779 by Charles Ffrench, then Mayor of Galway. In 1814 and again in 1837 it is recorded as the residence of Lord French. In 1856 it was occupied by James Thorngate when it was valued at £40. It is still extant and occupied and in 2006 was offered for sale.
(House) Brooklodge - This property was leased to Christopher French by Ambrose Deane on 16 June 1775 for 1 life and 99 years. He built a house which later became a Blake residence held from the Skerretts, who had inherited it from the Deanes. The house is now a ruin.
(House) Derrywillan House - A gate lodge and caretaker's house belonging to this estate were located in the townland of Redpark while the main house was in the townland of Tynagh. In 1837 Lewis records Derrywilliam House as the seat of H. Kilkelly. Taylor and Skinner record Dirry as the seat of the French family in 1783.
(House) Colmanstown - Originally a French property which became a Quaker settlement. Griffith's Valuation describes the buildings as a herd's and steward's house occupied by Edward Barrington and partners. Buildings on both sides of the road mark the site of Colmanstown, only the walls remain of some of these buildings, others are still in use.
(House) Prospect (Meelick) - In 1856 Joseph Cowan was leasing a property at Prospect, in the parish of Meelick, barony of Longford, from Francis Usher. In 1837 Lewis recorded Prospect as the seat of C.A. O'Malley. In 1906 Prospect was the property of Ernest Kenny and valued at £12. In 1778 this property was the residence of the French family. Prospect House is still extant and occupied.
(House) Kilateasheen/Kilteasheen - John R. French was leasing a house valued at £25 at Kilateasheen from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners at the time of Griffith's Valuation. There is no substantial house marked on the 1st edition OS map. This house is still extant and known as Riversdale House.
(House) Bella - At the time of Griffith's Valuation Arthur O'Connor was the lessor of a caretaker's house, valued at £2 10s, as well as 136 acres. Lewis recorded Bella as the residence of E. French in 1837. An entrance gateway named Flynn's Cottage is visible here now!
(House) Rathkeery Glebe - Rev. William French was leasing a glebe house at Glebe East, barony of Frenchpark, from Lord de Freyne's estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £7. The house no longer survives but an entrance gateway and trees indicate its whereabouts.
(House) Derry Lodge - At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Elizabeth Sandford was leasing a house at Derry, barony of Frenchpark, valued at £6 from the French estate. The house is described in the Ordnance Survey Field Name books of 1837 as "a good house, two stories high and thatched". The first edition of the Ordnance Survey map indicates a mill on the site also.
(Estate) Orme (Ballycarron) - This family of Ormes held lands in the parish of Crossmolina, barony of Tirawley and part of the Steele estate in the parish of Attymass, barony of Gallen, Co Mayo. Donohoe states that they were not related to the Owenmore family but were of French Hugenot descent.
(Estate) Ward - In 1906 John Ward owned 86 acres of untenanted land at Cloonbigny, parish of Taghmaconnell, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon. On 29 January 1914 over 1,000 acres belonging to John F. Ward was vested in the Congested Districts' Board. This estate may have been part of the former estate of Fitzstephen French.
(Estate) French (Portacarron) - Martin J. Blake wrote in ''The Tuam Herald'' that this family were descended from the Frenchs of Monivea and that they bought their estate in the parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, county Galway, from the persons who had been granted it by the Cromwellian Commissioners. Their residence was at Portacarron, close to the shore of Lough Corrib. James French of Portacarron married Helen Daly and died in 1760. He was succeeded by his son Francis who married Sarah Roche of Rye Hill, county Galway, but they had no children. Francis had a sister Margaret who married John Nolan of Ballinderry, near Tuam, and through this marriage the estate passed to the Nolan family in the early 19th century.
(Estate) Cullinane - Mountbrowne was originally part of the estate of the Brownes of Coolaran and Kilskeagh. By the time of Griffith’s Valuation Mountbrowne was owned in part by John Cullinane. In June 1857 294 acres of the townland was advertised for sale by the trustees of the marriage settlement of Martin Cullinane and his wife Elizabeth. However John Cullinane was recorded as the owner of 294 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. Thomas Cullinane held Derrymaclaughna from James Browne in the 1850s and was also tenant of part of the neighbouring townland of Barnaboy which he held from the Frenches. Samuel Burne’s interest in Derrymaclaughna was offered for sale in December 1854 and the French interest in Barnaboy in 1860 and 1866 by the trustees of the will of Frances Maria French.
(Estate) St. George (Tyrone House) - The St.George estate was centred on the house at Tyrone, parish of Drumacoo, barony of Dunkellin, built about 1779. This had originally been a French estate but the family assumed the title of St.George in 1774 due to inheritence from the St.George family of Hatley Manor, county Leitrim. In the 1830s A.F. St. George owned Tyrone House and Kilcolgan Castle, his agent was J. O'Hara. Wm. Griffith of Dublin also acted as an agent for the St. George estate. Arthur French St. George is described as a resident proprietor in 1824. In the early 19th century the St. Georges also owned large amounts of land in the baronies of Moycullen, Ballynahinch and Clare, which they advertised for sale in the early 1850s. Land in the barony of Clare had been acquired through Arthur French's marriage with a Kirwan in the late 17th century. A portion of the St. George estate, situated in the barony of Longford, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in November 1853. In 1870s the family owned 15,777 acres in county Galway. By the early 1900s, however, some of the estate had been sold and the house at Tyrone had been left empty for long periods. In 1914 over 3000 acres of an estate descibed as St. George and Concannon was vested in the Congested Districts Board. Many members of the family are buried in a church-style mausoleoum in the cemetery at Drumacoo.
(House) Palmerstown - The original Palmer house is marked "in ruins" on the first Ordnance Survey map of the late 1830s. The Irish Tourist Association File states that it was destroyed by fire when the French forces passed by in 1798. In the mid 19th century Henry A Knox, fifth son of Annesley G Knox of Rappa, leased the townland from Sir William Palmer. Knox lived in a house converted from part of the yard buildings of the original house before the mid 1850s. His descendants continue to live there today.
(House) Massbrook - The Irish Tourist Association file makes it clear that there were 2 houses at Massbrook, both in good condition in the 1940s. One was of French design erected in the 1890s by Colonel Johnston the then owner of the estate. There was also an older and smaller house, see under Woodpark. D.15166 in the National Archives refers to the house and demesne of Massbrook in 1868. Described by Bence Jones as a late Victorian house, the seat of the Walsh family. In the early 1990s Mrs Mary Robinson, President of Ireland, purchased the house known as Massbrook, formerly owned by Denis Ferranti.
(House) Ashford Castle - Originally this was the site of a De Burgo castle on the shore of Lough Corrib. A shooting lodge in the style of a French chateux was built by the Browne family of Castlemagarret and occupied in the late 18th century by a branch of that family. Thomas Elwood was agent for the Brownes in the early 19th century and is recorded as the occupier in 1814. Sold after the Famine to Benjamin Guinness. His son Arthur Lord Ardilaun expanded the building in the style of a Gothic castle. Sold by the Guinness family in 1939 the castle now functions as a world famous hotel.
(House) Rosleague - This townland appears to have been leased to the Ffrenches of Castlefrench, county Galway by the D'Arcys of Houndswood and Gorteen, county Mayo on 31 Oct 1800. In the 20th century Rosleague House was leased for a time to Miss Robinson, the former head of the French School, Bray, county Wicklow. Sold by the Brownes to the O'Briens who sold on to the Foyles. The house now functions as the Rosleague Manor Hotel. http://www.rosleague.com/
(House) Kilcolgan Castle - Christopher St. George, residing at Kilcolgan Castle, is described as a resident proprietor in county Galway in 1824. In the 1830s Kilcolgan Castle is described as the property of A.F. St. George. This house, part of the St.George estate, was leased by Matthew St.George from Christopher St.George, 1855. At that time Matthew St. George was acting as agent for the Rathbourne estate. Earlier, the Ordnance Survey Field Name books record that he was acting as agent for the estate of Patrick French in the nearby parish of Ballynacourty.
(House) Rahasane - Lewis records Rahasane as the seat of R.French in 1837. The Landed Estates court sale notice of June 1871 mentions that Rahasane House was built by Robert Joseph Ffrench at a cost of £10,000. Two houses on the 1933 edition of 6" OS Map are called Rahasane. One, in the townland of Rahasane, is described as " in ruins" on the 1933 edition. The second Rahasane House is located in Pollnagerragh townland, at GR474172. There is no trace now of the original house built by R.J. French.
(House) Cloonacauneen Castle - Muriel L. Athy writes that the castle was occupied by Martin Blake in 1835, although it is recorded in the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books as the property of Mr. French. it later passed into the hands of Mr Fair "who built against it a Tudor house, his descendant Dr Fair of Ballinasloe sold it to the Estates Commissioners". Owned by James Malley in the early 20th century. Described by Bence Jones as a tower house with an attached wing. Still occupied, it now operates as a bar and restaurant.
(House) Rocksavage - The home of Waldrons and Ormsbys in the 18th century. The residence of Jeffrey French in 1814 and occupied by Mr Smith at the time of the first Ordnance survey and by Samuel Hodson who held it from William Longfield in the 1850s. Occupied by Robert O. Longfield in 1906. A modern house now occupies the site but some old farm buildings still remain.
(House) Errit Lodge - Errit Lodge, valued at £12, was the residence of Fitzstephen French at the time of Griffith's Valuation. It is recorded as Lough Errit by Lewis in 1837 when the Ordnance Survey Field Name books describe it as " a well built house, two stories high and slated with detached offices". In 1814 Errit is recorded as the residence of John Barlow. The Census of Elphin in 1749 also records it as a residence of W. Barlow. A modernised and derelict building now occupies the lakeshore site.
(House) Fort William/Fort Lyster - A house on the outskirts of the village of Athleague, it was the home of N. J. French in 1837. It was valued at £20 and was occupied by Henry West who held the property from Anne Lyster in the 1850s. The house, marked as Fort William on the first Ordnance Survey map, later became known as Fort Lyster. Still valued at £20 and occupied by the representatives of William Jameson in 1906. It was the home of Aileen Cust the first woman veterinary surgeon in the British Isles in the early 20th century. Some walls remain and the entrance gates.
(House) Toomona - The home of Michael Connor, a gentleman in 1749, just outside Tulsk. The residence of Michael's grandson Peter O'Connor in 1814 and 1837. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Toomona was valued at £10 and was occupied by Maria French who held it from Lord Crofton. Later occupants included Colonel Lynham, Matt Flanagan, the Murphy and Fallon families. Accidently burnt in the 1970s.
(Estate) McNevin - Emily Blake Forster married Daniel McNevin and they resided at Clooneene (Ashfield) in the 1830s. Daniel McNevin is recorded as the proprietor of lands in the parish of Beagh in the mid 1830s but with an address at Middle Gardiner St. Dublin. His agent was Mr. Darcy of Rickfield. Daniel and Emily's son was Thomas McNevin who was associated with the Young Ireland movement. Lands from the McNevin estate were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in December 1853. The owner was Daniel McNevin, a minor. Ashfield later came into the French family.
(Estate) Browne/Browne Naghten (Annaghmore) - Melvin writes that the family of Browne of Annaghmore, parish of Moylough, barony of Tiaquin, county Galway, became extinct in the late 18th century. In 1804 Margaret Browne of Annaghmore married William Edward Naghten and had 11 children. The eldest son Thomas Browne Naghten advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court the 1056 acres of Annnaghmore East in November 1852. Griffith's Valuation records Annaghmore East in the possession of Francis A. French. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~naughton/Naughton.html
(House) Shannon Lodge - Alexander or Alick Faris leased property from the St. George estate in Carrick-on-Shannon. His wife Diana is recorded as the occupier of the house known as Shannon Lodge at the time of Griffith's Valuaiton, when it was valued at £30. Pyle states that after Alick Faris died Diana married a French aide of the St.George's, Victor de l'Herrault. She resided at Shannon Lodge for some time but after her second husband died she moved to Sligo and rented Shannon Lodge to her brother, James. She died in 1890.
(Estate) Ffrench (Rahasane) - In 1675 the ffrenches bought the lands of Cummer and Drumgriffin in the barony of Clare which had been granted to the Legge family, later Earls of Dartmount, under the Acts of Settlement. Through his mother Elizabeth Nagle of county Cork, Robert J. Ffrench inherited some of the Nagle property in the barony of Fermoy, county Cork. In 1824 Robert Joseph French of Rahasane is described as a resident proprietor in county Galway but later in the 19th century the ffrench family of Rahasane became indebted to the Smyth family who later purchased large portions of the Rahasane estate, including those in the parish of Cummer.
(Estate) Tabuteau - B. M. Tabuteau was a principal lessor of property in the parish of Moore, barony of Moycarn, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s he is recorded as owning over 2500 acres in county Roscommon and was resident at Abbey St., Dublin. The Tabuteas were a French family who had fled France, via Holland, following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. They appear to have settled in Tullamore, county Offaly (King's County) in the eighteenth century. Bartholomew M. Tabuteau, described as "of Simmonscourt Castle", was a Consul for the Netherlands in Dublin. He was born in 1799 and died in 1869. He had a large family, one of whom, Richard, married into the Plunkett family.
(Estate) Hague/Heague - At the time of Griffith's Valuation John Heague held the townland of Cloonahee, parish of Clooncraff, barony of Roscommon, in fee. He had previously leased Cloonahee from Gilbert Conry, lease dated 14 May 1836. The Conry estate was advertised for sale in February 1853. John Heague also held land in the parishes of Creeve and Kilcooley (from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and from the representatives of Henry French). The Heagues held valuable properties in the town of Strokestown in the mid 1850s. In 1876 John Hague of Cloonahee owned 123 acres in county Roscommon. Hussey de Burgh records him as the owner of 693 acres. Richard Hague was negotiating with the Congested Districts' Board in 1916.
(Estate) Ross (Lissonuffy) - Sir Thomas Ross held almost 300 acres in the parish of Lissonuffy, barony and county of Roscommon, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. It would appear that he bought the 246 acres of Ashbrook from the sale of the estate of Eleanor O'Ferrall in July 1850. George Kelly was the main tenant of Sir Thomas Ross. In the 1870s Sir Thomas Ross of Castletown, county Carlow, owned 445 acres in county Roscommon. The estate of Allen Theophilus Ross, Thomas French Ross and John Innes Bathe, in the parishes of Lissonuffy and Killukin, barony of Roscommon, was advertised for sale in April 1879. It included premises in county Dublin.
(Estate) O'Conor (Toomona) - The branch of the O'Conor family known as O'Conor Roe had extensive lands in county Roscommon which were confiscated in the 17th century and granted to Captain Nicholas Mahon, founder of the Strokestown family. Peter O'Conor was a descendent of the O'Conor Roe. He was the son of John O'Conor and his wife a Miss Dowell of Gort, near Athlone. John O'Conor was a grandson of Roger O'Conor of Castleruby, who was buried in the Abbey of Tulsk. Peter O'Conor's sister Bridget was the wife of Jeffrey Martin French of Rocksavage, county Roscommon. Peter appears to have died in the 1830s without any male heirs and Toomona was inherited by his sister.
(House) Woodbrook House - Keenehan and others state that the Woodbrook House was built around 1780 by the Phibbs family although there may have been an earlier house on the site. The Kirkwood family purchased the property sometime in the early nineteenth century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Sarah Mary Kirkwood was leasing a house at Usna, barony of Boyle, valued at £14, from Robert H. Brewster French. From the 1890s-1911 Woodbrook was a very successful racing stables run by Col. Tom Kirkwood. Life in the house in the post-WWI era has been made famous by the memoir ''Woodbrook'' written by the Scottish author David Thomson, a tutor to the daughters of the family. In 1946 over 50 acres of the estate was sold to the local golf club while the Land Commission subsequently divided the remainder. Woodbrook House is still extant and occupied.
(Estate) Joyce (Corgary) - An estate bought by Walter Joyce of Mervue from the French family in 1806. In the mid 19th century it was comprised of 7 townlands in the parish of Killoscobe, barony of Tiaquin, county Galway, some of which was leased to the Concannons. Walter Joyce had 3 sons, Walter of Corgary, Pierce of Mervue and Thomas of Rahasane Park. In the mid 1870s Walter Joyce of Corgary owned about 1,000 acres in county Mayo, 2,828 in county Galway and smaller acreages in Galway town and county Clare (365 acres at Muckinish East, parish of Drumcreehy, barony of Burren). 680 acres of the Joyce estate was vested in the Congested Districts' Board in March 1913. Walter Joyce of Corgary was fatally shot in January 1923 and following his death his estate was sold to the Land Commission.
(Estate) Blake (Waterdale & Vermount) - In the early 19th century a junior branch of the Blakes of Kiltullagh, parish of Oranmore, barony of Dunkellin, county Galway, leased the Waterdale property in the parishes of Claregalway and Annaghdown, barony of Clare, from the Lamberts of Creg Clare. James Blake of Waterdale, purchased the French estate of Moneen or Vermont, parish of Killoscobe, barony of Tiaquin and died in 1821, leaving his estates to his nephew, another James Blake. This James Blake married his cousin Henrietta Blake of Kiltullagh and had an only child Elizabeth who married in 1854 her cousin Theobald Blake of Kiltullagh and Vermount. However when Theobald Blake died in 1902 without heirs, Vermount reverted to Elizabeth's first cousin Nicholas Blake of the U.S.A. McHale writes that the estate was bought by the Land Commission in the early 20th century and that the house was burned down in 1923. Members of the Blake family are buried in a burial house on the estate.
(Estate) Aylward - A branch of the Aylward family of Faithlegg, county Waterford transported to Connacht in the mid 17th century and Peter Aylward was confirmed in his possession of an estate of over 2,400 acres in the parish of Ballynakill, barony of Leitrim, county Galway by patent dated 1677. At the same time Nicholas Aylward was granted over 900 acres at Ardreny in the barony of Clonmacnowen. Peter Aylward married Elizabeth French of Tyrone, county Galway and their son John Aylward conformed to Protestanism in 1725. The male line of the Ballynagar family ended with the death of John Michael Aylward in 1867 and the estate passed to his nephew John Michael Aylward Lewis. The estate of James Kearney Aylward at Ardreany in the barony of Clonmacnowen, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in November 1854.
(Estate) Copinger - The Copingers were a county Cork family. Christopher Copinger, born 1805, was the third son of Richard Copinger of Cork and his wife Eliza Conron. William Richard Copinger was his younger brother. In May 1862 the estate of Christopher Copinger, Queen's Counsel, in the parishes of Elphin, Kilcooley and Killukin, barony and county of Roscommon and in the parish of Ardcarn, barony of Boyle, amounting to over 1,400 acres, was advertised for sale in the Landed Estates' Court. William Richard Copinger, solicitor, 54 South Mall, Cork, had carriage of sale. This estate was in the possession of Arthur Joseph French at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s W.R. Coppinger of 58 South Mall owned 164 acres in county Roscommon. http://www.copinger.org.uk/Pedigree2/fam00136.html
(Estate) Peyton (Laheen) - The estate at Laheen, which had previously been associated with the Reynolds family, came into the Peyton family though the marriage of John Peyton to a daughter of Christopher Reynolds of Laheen in the early 18th century. The Peytons had first acquired land in Leitrim through an earlier marriage with the Reynolds family of Loughscur in the mid-17th century. In 1830 and 1865 members of the Peyton family of Laheen were High Sheriffs of Leitrim. In 1868 George Peyton was offering lands in the parish of Kiltoghert for sale in the Landed Estates' court. He held this property on lease from Richard Reynolds Peyton. A junior branch of the Peytons of Laheen were resident in Castlebar in the 19th century. In 1854 Anthony Joseph French, his wife Anne Jane and members of the Peyton family were advertising for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court 1509 acres in the baronies of Carra and Gallen, county Mayo. Some of this acreage was in the parish of Ballyhean and appears to have been part of the estate owned by the Chambers of Kilboyne, who were connected to the Peytons through the marriage of Hamilton Peyton and Susanna Chambers in the later 18th century. In Griffith's Valuation the Peytons were the immediate lessors of 3 townlands and Anthony J.French of one townland in the parish of Ballyhean. In the 1870s Bernard Peyton of Creagh's Villa, Castlebar, owned 1307 acres in county Mayo.
(Estate) Lynch (Barna) - According to Burke's ''Landed Gentry of Ireland'' the Barna estate came into the possession of the Lynches through marriage with an O'Halloran heiress in the 17th century and through purchase from the Whaley family. Further additions to their estate were made through marriages with a Blake of Renvyle heiress and a French of Cloghballymore. In the late 18th century a son of Mark Lynch of Barna lived at Cloghballymore and had a daughter Anne who married Maurice Blake of Ballinafad, county Mayo. The Lynches resided at Barna, just west of Galway city. James Hardiman referred to the 'highly improved and elegant seat of Marcus Blake Lynch which for situation and beauty of prospect stands unrivelled'. Before the Famine their estate appears to have been in the Courts. Some of it in the barony of Ballynahinch was sold to the Grahams of county Fermanagh in the early 1840s and some may have transferred into the ownership of the Comyn family through marriage. What was known as the West Barna Estate was sold to Andrew Henry Lynch in 1834. However at the time of Griffith's Valuation the Lynches still retained a large estate in the parishes of Rahoon, barony of Galway and Moyrus, barony of Ballynahinch. By June 1869 their estate of 9,565 acres in the parish of Moyrus was being advertised for sale, 5 of the 8 lots were sold that year. In the early 1870s they owned 4,100 acres in the county and 1,711 in the county of the town of Galway.
(Estate) Blake (Kiltullagh, Frenchfort & Vermount) - The lands of Kiltullagh/Kiltolla, parish of Oranmore, barony of Dunkellin, county Galway, were granted to Hugh Molloy by patent under the Acts of Settlement, to hold for Patrick Blake and his heirs until a sum of £700 was paid. The Blakes of Waterdale and Vermount were descended from James Blake, a younger son of another Patrick Blake of Kiltullagh. In 1780 Michael Blake of Kiltullagh married Anne only child of Martin French of Frenchfort and thereafter Frenchfort was Blake property. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Theobald Michael Blake held townlands in the parishes of Ballymacward and Killoscobe, barony of Tiaquin and a townland in each of the parishes of Oranmore and St Nicholas, barony of Galway. In the early 1870s he owned over 5,000 acres in county Galway. The Blakes of Frenchfort held the townland of Coollisduff, in parishes of Kilmolara and Kilmainemore, barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo, see OS Names books and Griffiths. Advertised for sale in 1856. Theobald Blake died in 1902 without immediate heirs and his Kiltullagh estate passed to his grand neice Dora Creagh and Vermount to his cousin Nicholas Blake. Miss Creagh submitted an application for assessment of the townland of Ballintemple, parish of Oranmore shortly after this and the sale to the tenants was approved by the Land Commission.
(Estate) Blake (Ballyglunin) - In ''Blake Family Records'' Martin J. Blake states that Martin Blake of Cummer, county Galway, purchased Ballyglunin from Charles Holcraft, the grantee under the Cromwellian settlement and that he was confirmed in his possession of 1,895 acres in the barony of Clare by patent dated 26 July 1677. By the mid 19th century the Blake estate was in the parishes of Kilmoylan, Belclare, Killererin, Annaghdown and Tuam, barony of Clare, in the parish of Abbeyknockmoy, barony of Tiaquin and in the parish of Rahoon, barony of Galway. In the 1870s the Blakes owned over 10,000 acres in the locality. By March 1916 the Blakes had accepted a final offer of over £60,000 from the Congested Districts' Board for almost 9,800 acres of their estate. The early generations intermarried a number of times with members of the Joyce family. John Blake, a younger son of Martin Blake and his wife Bridget Joyce, married Olivia French of Brooklodge in 1803. However the sale rental of Brooklodge and other property in the county of the town of Galway belonging to Walter Martin Blake dated 1867 indicates that Martin J. Blake bought the lease of Brooklodge for £10,000, rather than inheriting it.
(Estate) Moore/O'Moore (Cloonbigny) - In 1629 John Moore of Brees, county Mayo, settled his Cloonbigney estate in the parish of Taghmaconnell, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon, on his third son William. In 1725 Michael Moore of Cloonbigney married Frances Moore co heiress with her sister Mary to their brother Garrett Moore of Brees. Mary was married to Sir Henry Lynch 5th baronet of Castlecarra. It was not until 1744 that the division of the Moore estate was eventually settled by a decision of the House of Lords in favour of Sir Henry Lynch, who obtained possession of all the Moore estate in county Mayo. The Moores of Cloonbigny got Cloghan Castle in county Offaly. In 1852 the Moores of Cloonbigny advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court their lands in counties Roscommon (4,000 acres on border with county Galway), Offaly, Mayo (parishes of Balla and Kilcolman) and Clare (723 acres in unions of Ennistymon and Killadysert) amounting to 9456 acres. Their county Roscommon estate was in the parish of Taghmaconnell, barony of Athlone, and by the time of Griffith's Valuation it was in the possession of Fitzstephen French. The townland of Ballygill, in the parish of Ahascragh, county Galway, is recorded in the OS Field Name books as having been the property of Garret O'Moore. The house, Ballygill Lodge, that it formerly contained, was then in ruins.
(Estate) Corr - Henry Corr held land from the Goffs at Derrane, parish of Kilbride, barony of Ballintober South, county Roscommon in the first half of the 19th century. In the 1850s he also held Cloonyquin, parish of Elphin, barony of Roscommon, presumably from the French family. Luke Corr of Durham is mentioned in newspaper reports of the trial of Owen Beirne for the murder of the Reverend John Lloyd in 1847, see http://www.obeirnefamily.cwc.net/issue4/Owen%20Beirne%202.htm In another source Luke Corr is recorded as owning 1,454 acres in county Galway while George Corr and others owned 1,040 acres in the same county. 235 acres held by Miss Marie Corr at Derham or Durham 'now called Garvoher' was advertised for sale in January 1861 and again in January 1875. In the 1870s Miss Marie Corr of Derrane owned 27 acres in county Roscommon. The Sandys family also held some land in Derrane including Durham Lodge. James Sandys of Durham Lodge owned 158 acres in the 1870s.
(Estate) Taaffe (Foxborough) - A family of Taaffe were established as landowners in the Strokestown area from the 18th century. Gerald Dillon writes that they were apparently a junior branch of the Taaffes of Smarmore Castle, county Louth. In the mid 19th century Patrick Taaffe held lands in the parishes of Elphin, Killukin and Kiltrustan, barony of Roscommon, from a number of land owners but mainly from Christopher French of Cloonyquin and James Dillon. Joanna and Julia Taaffe offered over 600 acres in county Mayo and over 1000 acres in county Roscommon for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court in June 1856. The Mayo estates were in the barony of Costello while the Roscommon lands were in the barony of Frenchpark and were formerly the estate of Christopher Taaffe, deceased. In the 1870s Patrick Taaffe of Foxboro, Tulsk, owned 171 acres in county Roscommon. The estate of Joseph Plunkett Taaffe in the parishes of Killukin and Kiltrustan was advertised for sale in June 1883. Gormley states that the Taaffes had formerly been an influential family in the area but had lost their inheritence thorough maintaining a lavish lifestyle. Members of this family are buried in the graveyard of Tulsk Abbey.
(Estate) Lloyd (Croghan & Leitrim) - The Lloyd estate was centred on Croghan, close to Carrick-on-Shannon but located in county Roscommon. Guy Lloyd is recorded as owning over 1200 acres in county Leitrim in the 1870s, including townlands in the parish of Cloone, near Mohill. In 1828 Guy Lloyd was a member of the Grand Panel of county Roscommon. The Lloyds were also one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Killukin and Killummod, barony of Boyle and in the parish of Kilmacumsy, barony of Frenchpark, county Roscommon and in the 1870s their estate in county Roscommon amounted to over 7,300 acres. For most of the latter part of the 19th century the Lloyds of Croghan were absentee landlords. John Merrick Lloyd, who died in 1929, was the last member of the family to own Croghan. Most of the estate was already in the hands of the tenants and the remainder was bought by Captain William French, a connection of the Frenchs of Frenchpark. One of J.M. Lloyd's sisters married Stanhope F. Kenny of Ballinrobe. Members of the Lloyd family were High Sheriffs of Leitrim in 1846, 1869 and 1902. In 1852 a portion of the estate of Edward Lloyd and Elizabeth Campbell at Lyonstown, barony of Boyle and Ballinabinna, county Leitrim, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court. Several other members of the Lloyd family are recorded as owners of land in county Leitrim in the 1870s notably Robert, with an address at Twickenham, London, who held over 800 acres. His estate was mainly at Annaghmore in the barony of Mohill. A portion of it was offered for sale in the Landed Estates' Court in January 1877. Robert Jones Saunderson Lloyd offered lands in the barony of Leitrim for sale in the Land Judges' Court in June 1884. James Stuart Lloyd had an estate at Ardagh, county Sligo and his only daughter, Hester, married Richard Graves Brinkley of Fortland, Easkey.
(Estate) Skerrett (Ballinduff) - The Skerretts owned an estate in the barony of Clare, county Galway, which was confiscated at the time of the Cromwellian settlement. However various members of the Skerrett family were granted lands in the barony by patent dated 16 Mar 1678 and Hughes writes that they were able to buy back some of their former property around Ballinduff in the 1680s. Hely Dutton lists 4 branches of the family situated at Nutgrove, Drumgriffin, Ballinduff and Carnacrow. William Skerrett of Carrownacroagh, parish of Killursa, is documented in the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books. His agent was John Joyce of Headford. Over 550 acres of his estate was sold in 1843. It was bought by John Nolan, F. Blake and possibly George Staunton Lynch. By the mid 19th century the Skerrett estate was mainly in the parish of Kilcoona but also contained lands in the parishes of Killeany, Killererin and Kilmoylan. Some of their estate had formerly belonged to the Deane family of Balrobuck, parish of Annaghdown, with whom the Skerretts intermarried. The Galway County Library contains particulars of a house in Cross Street, Galway and lands in the barony of Clare, including Balrobuck, which were advertised for sale in 1841 in connection with a legal case between Dominick Lynch and Dominick Skerrett. Brooklodge was Skerrett property by the time of Griffith's Valuation but was held by the Blakes of Ballyglunin on a lease dated 1775, Ambrose Deane to Christopher French. The Skerretts were still resident at Ballinduff in 1814 but later moved to Dublin following a marriage with one of the co heirs of John Locke of Athgoe Park, Dublin. In the 1870s the Skerretts owned 3,733 acres in county Galway and 969 acres in county Dublin.
(Estate) Nolan (Ballinderry) - The Nolans were Elizabethan settlers in the Ballinrobe area of county Mayo. They lost most of their estate in county Mayo to the Cuffs during the Commonwealth and were transplanted to Ballinderry in the parish of Cummer, barony of Clare, county Galway. A notebook in the National Library contains a copy of a patent dated 20 Aug 1677 which refers to the Nolan interest in lands in the baronies of Kilmaine, Clanmorris and Gallen, county Mayo and in the baronies of Clare, Dunmore and Ballymoe, county Galway. At the time of Griffith's Valuation their estate at Ballinderry was mainly in the parish of Cummer but also included townlands in the parishes of Annaghdown and Belclare and the Nolans still had 2 townlands in the parish of Kilcommon and 2 townlands in the parish of Kilmainebeg, barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo. A volume in the Kirwan of Dalgin collection traces the early generations as Patrick Nolan who married Anne Browne in 1667, John married Ellis Brabazon in 1709, Patrick married a Martin of Tulira. Through a late 18th century marriage with Margaret the daughter and heiress of James French of Portacarron, parish and barony of Moycullen, county Galway, an estate in that district came into the possession of John Nolan, son of Patrick. In 1809 their son John Nolan married Mary Browne daughter of John Browne of Castlemoyle. Mary Anne Nolan, widow of John Nolan of Ballinderry and herself a Nolan of Lugboy, county Mayo, held townlands and islands in the parishes of Moyrus, Kilcummin and Killannin in the barony of Moycullen at the time of Griffith's Valuation. She and her husband had 6 sons of whom John Philip Nolan was a Member of Parliament for county Galway for much of the later part of the 19th century. Burke's ''Landed Gentry of Ireland'' records that J.P. Nolan's younger brother Walter Raymond Nolan was heir to his maternal grandfather. Sebastian Nolan, a very wealthy bachelor, lived at Castlemoyle and later at Seamount, Salthill. Philip John Nolan was the only one of the brothers to marry. In the 1870s the estate amounted to 6,866 acres with an additional 800 acres in county Mayo. Walter M. Nolan of the Army and Navy Club, London owned 1852 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. The records of the land agents Denis J. Kirwan and Sons contain late 19th century records relating to the estate of Colonel W.R. Nolan in the parishes of Kilquain and Killimorbologue, barony of Longford, Annaghdown and Belclare, barony of Clare, Monieva, barony of Tiaquin and Dunmore, barony of Ballymoe.
(Estate) Balfe - The Balfe family were settled at Heathfield in county Roscommon in the 18th century but had moved to South Park by the 19th century. Walter Balfe and his wife Jane French of Frenchlawn had 10 sons, some of whom owned property in county Roscommon in the 19th century. In 1828 Michael Balfe of South Park was a member of the Grand Panel of county Roscommon. James Balfe of Southpark, county Roscommon, was advertising for sale 236 acres of Kinlough, parish of Shrule, county Mayo, in February 1850. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Thomas Balfe held the townland of Rooaunalaghta in the same parish and Nicholas Balfe held a number of townlands in the parishes of Kilglass, barony of Ballintober North and Cloontuskert, barony of Ballintober South, county Roscommon. The representatives of James Balfe also had land in the parish of Ogulla, barony of Roscommon. In the 1870s Nicholas J. Balfe of Dublin owned 110 acres in county Galway , 47 acres in county Roscommon, 433 acres in county Sligo and 412 acres in county Westmeath. Patrick Balfe of South Park owned over 6000 acres in county Roscommon in the 1870s. Some of his lands in the barony of Castlereagh were offered for sale in the Landed Estates' Court in June 1858, November 1874 and again in February 1875. Some of these lands were held on leases from the Lyster and Murphy families. Over 900 acres of Patrick Balfe's estate in the barony of Frenchpark was offered for sale in the Landed Estates' Court in November 1860. James Balfe of Runnemead, tenth son of Walter Balfe of Heathfield, county Roscommon, died leaving 4 daughters and co heiresses. His daughters married into the Chichester, Berington and De Morelle families. The Chichester's eldest son, Walter George Raleigh Chichester, succeeded to the Irish estates of his mother and also to the Burton Constable estate, Yorkshire and in 1894 he took the name Constable by royal licence. 375 acres of the estate of Michael Joseph Balfe in county Galway were vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 26 Apr 1905 and a further 740 acres in county Roscommon on 4 Feb 1909. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Bernard Balfe held land in the parish of Cloonfinlough, barony of Roscommon. The estate of John Balfe in the parishes of Cloonfinlough, barony of Roscommon and Creeve, barony of Frenchpark, was advertised for sale in May 1851. The senior branch of the Balfe family of South Park afterwards moved to Balinluska House, Myrtleville, county Cork. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Patrick Balfe owned an estate in the parishes of Aglishcormish, Dromkeen and Grean, barony of Clanwilliam, county Limerick. The interest of his niece Ellen McDermott in these lands was advertised for sale in June 1862. Captain Walter Balfe of South Park, Castlerea, owned 1,042 acres in county Limerick in the 1870s.

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