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• (Estate) Madden (Castlerea) - In 1870 lands at Cleaboy, barony of Castlereagh, the property of James Joseph Madden, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates' Court. The Irish Times reported that this property was purchased by Mr. Flynn for over £1600.
• (Estate) Garnett - Two sources compiled in the 1870s give the acreage owned by William Garnett of Arm Lodge, Castlerea, in county Roscommon as 878 and 572 acres.
• (Estate) Broderick - Charles Broderick of Tarmon House, Castlerea, county Roscommon owned 860 acres in the county in the 1870s. In March 1911 563 acres belonging to A.M. Broderick were vested in the Congested Districts' Board.
• (House) Harristown - Harristown was the residence of James Young in the 1870s and at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £20. In 1814 it was the seat of Capt. Young. Lewis records it as the seat of Owen Young. In 1894 Slater refers to it as the seat of Owen W. O'Grady Young. The Census of Elphin records the Young family at Knockro, parish of Kilkeevin, in 1749. Much of the demesne associated with Harristown is now occupied by Castlerea Prison.
• (House) Milltown - Roderick O'Conor/O'Connor occupied the property at Milltown, barony of Castlerea, valued at £36, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. It was also recorded as his seat in both 1814 and 1837. Gormley states that nothing of the house now remains save for traces of the mile long avenue.
• (Estate) Townsend - Richard W.Townsend held 4 townlands in the parish of Kilmovee, barony of Costello, county Mayo at the time of Griffith's Valuation, previously part of the estate of John Knox of Castlerea, barony of Tirawley. By the 1870s the Townsend estate was in the ownership of the Reverend William Gibbon.
• (Estate) Sweeney - In February 1890 Bernard and Walter Sweeney were advertising for sale a fee simple estate of 1,690 acres at Letter in the barony of Moycullen, county Galway. Bernard Sweeney of Caher, [parish of Kilkeevin], Castlerea, [county Roscommon], is recorded as the owner of over 1600 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. Letter was in the possession of Martin Lydon by 1906.
• (Estate) Young (Castlerea & Sligo) - The Young family held lands in the parish of Drumcliff according to the 1749 Census of Elphin. In 1828 Owen Young of Harristown was a member of the Grand Panel of county Roscommon. Rev. John Young is recorded as the owner of over 4000 acres in county Sligo in the 1870s. He was, at that time, resident in Dungannon, county Tyrone. In 1879 some of the Rev. Young's property in Castlerea was sold in the Land Judges' Court.James Young, acting as assignee for Samuel and Henry Harpur, offered for sale lands at Cornagh, barony of Carrigallen, county Leitrim, in April 1856. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the representatives of Robert Young were among the principal lessors in the parish of Kilnamanagh, barony of Frenchpark, county Roscommon and Mrs Robert Young held the townland of Drumatemple in the barony of Ballymoe. In the 1870s James Young of Harristown, Castlerea, owned over 1100 acres in county Roscommon. In 1876 the trustees of James Young's estate offered for sale lands at Castletown, barony of Rosclogher, county Leitrim in the Landed Estates' Court. .
• (Estate) Sandford/Wills Sandford - The descendants of Captain Theophilus Sandford of Moyglare, county Meath, settled at Castlerea, county Roscommon, in the late 17th century and represented the county in Parliament. Henry Moore Sandford (1751-1814) was created Baron Mount Sandford of Castlerea in July 1800. The title became extinct in 1846 following the death of George Sandford, 3rd Baron and the Sandford estates which were in the parishes of Dysart, barony of Athlone, Drumatemple, barony of Ballymoe and Ballintober, Kilkeevin and Kiltullagh, barony of Castlereagh, passed to the families of his sisters Wills of Willsgrove, Pakenham and Newenham. In the 1870s Thomas G. Wills Sandford owned 24,410 acres in county Roscommon and 949 acres in county Dublin. Over 1,200 acres of the Wills Sandford estate was vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 5 Nov 1911.
• (House) Emlagh - Robert Irwin was leasing a property valued at £5 + 230 acres at Emlagh, barony of Castlerea, to Patrick Flynn, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The Census of Elphin indicates that John Irwin resided there in 1749. Gormley states that the house was probably built around 1740 and extended in the early 1800s. By the 1880s the Irwins had sold Emlagh to Walter McDermott. The house was later demolished.
• (House) Castlereagh House - The principal residence of the Sandford estate was at Castlereagh House, barony of Castlereagh. It was valued at £80 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In 1786 Wilson described it as "a most elegant and capital seat". In 1894 it was the residence of G.R. Wills-Sandford, Castlereagh House has been demolished. Gate lodges, one of which functions as Gaynor's Funeral Home, survive while part of the demesne lands is a public park for Castlerea town.
• (Estate) Graham - The Grahams owned 700 acres in the parish of Kilconduff, barony of Gallen, county Mayo previously part of the estate of John Knox of Castlerea and in the parish of Meelick, previously part of the Bolingbroke estate. William Graham also leased property from the Marquess of Sligo in Westport town. In 1873 William J. Graham advertised for sale 949 acres in the barony of Gallen.
• (Estate) Joynt - At the time of Griffith's Valuation Henry Joynt held 7 townlands in the parish of Templemore, barony of Gallen, county Mayo, previously part of the estate of John Knox of Castlerea, barony of Tirawley. Lane contends that Joynt was a land agent. In 1876 Henry Joynt of Ballina, county Mayo owned over 4000 acres in county Mayo. Members of the Joynt sold their estate to the Congested Districts' Board between 1914 and 1916.
• (Estate) Boyd (Mount Gordon) - In 1716 the Boyds bought the estate of Crosspatrick, parish of Killala, barony of Tirawley, county Mayo and were settled there throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries. A branch of the family moved to Castlebar. Sir William Boyd, a medical doctor, lived at Mount Gordon, just outside Castlebar in the late 18th century and he and a number of his relatives are buried in the Church of Ireland graveyard at Castlebar. The Boyds intermarried with the Knoxes of Castlerea, the O'Malleys of Castlebar and the Brownes of Shrule.
• (Estate) McCreery - In the mid 1850s John McCreery held church lands at Killinvoy in the parish of Killinvoy, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon. In 1856, McDermott/Jephson estate lands for sale in the barony of Castlereagh included property owned by John McCreery. In the 1870s John McCreery of 16 Ranelagh Road, Dublin, owned 503 acres in county Roscommon. In June 1878 the estate of John McCreery in the baronies of Athlone and Castlerea, county Roscommon and in county Dublin were advertised for sale.
• (Estate) Grehan - Patrick Grehan had a lease of the Mountplunkett estate, parish of Killinvoy, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon, from 1847 and appears to have bought Crotty's interest in the property in 1851. In the 1850s Patrick Grehan held lands in the parishes of Killinvoy and St Johns, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon. In January 1870 the estate of Patrick Grehan amounting to 2,745 acres in the baronies of Athlone, Ballintober, Ballymoe and Castlerea was advertised for sale. The Mountplunkett estate and the part of South Park Demesne in the barony of Castlereagh were readvertised in May 1870. The Irish Times reported that these lots were sold to Rev. W. West and Owen O'Connor.
• (Estate) Cotton - Various members of the Cotton family were leasing property in the barony of Castlereagh at the time of Griffith's Valuation and earlier in the nineteenth century. Wright Cotton held land in the parish of Cloonfinlough, barony of Roscommon in the 1850s, previously part of the estate of John Balfe. In the 1870s Wright Cotton of Hartstown, Clonsilla, Dublin, held over 200 acres in county Roscommon. Cox Cotton, son of William James Cotton of Longford House, Castlerea bought the Brierfield estate from the Hawkes family in the late 19th century.
• (Estate) Kelly (Castlereagh) - William Joseph Kelly was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Kilkeevin, barony of Castlereagh, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In 1865, 1869 and 1870 over 2000 acres of the estate of William Joseph Kelly in the barony of Castlereagh were offered for sale in the Landed Estates' Court.The sale in June 1865 was adjourned due to insufficient bidding. Michael Kelly of Castlerea owned over 400 acres in county Roscommon and 306 acres in county Galway in the 1870s.
• (House) The Lodge - A house with foundations dating from the 17th century, visited by Mary Delaney in the 1730s and occupied by the French in 1798. By 1837 it was the home of T. Kirkwood and, in the mid 19th century, of the Very Reverend J. Collins who held the property valued at £20 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In the late 19th century this house was the home of Captain Alfred Charles Knox, a younger son of John Knox of Castlerea, Killala. Bence Jones writes that the house was enlarged circa 1820 by the addition of a bow shaped wing and that for a time it was the home of the Pery Knox Gore family. In the later 20th century owned by Lord Rathcaven and now the Irish home of Noeleen Farrell.
• (Estate) Taaffe (Killedan) - Killedan townland, parish of Killedan, barony of Gallen, county Mayo, was church land held by the Knox family of Castlerea, near Killala, who leased it and other lands to the Taaffes. The Taaffes of Killedan were descended from James and Marie Taaffe, Marie was a niece of the Catholic lawyer Terence MacDonagh. By the time of Griffith's Valuation the Reverend Leonard Strong held Killedan townland and James McManus occupied the house. Raiftearaí, the poet, grew up on this estate. In the 1870s a William Taaffe of the United States of America owned over 800 acres in county Mayo. It is not clear if he was a member of the Taaffe family of Killedan.
• (Estate) McDermott (Castlereagh) - Bernard McDermott was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Kilkeevin, barony of Castlereagh at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s John McDermott of Castlerea owned over 200 acres in county Roscommon. In June 1856 Edward Fox, the assignee of William McDermott, offered almost 600 acres located in the barony of Castlereagh, for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court. Some of this land was on a lease from the Jephson estate from 1809 for three lives. It and other parts of the Jephson estate in Roscommon had been offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in November 1851.
• (Estate) Goff - This family were descended from the Goff family of Kingstown, Dublin who had married into the Caulfield family. In 1828 Robert Goff was a member of the Grand Panel of county Roscommon. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Goff estate included the demesne at Oakport, near Boyle. In 1863 Oakport demesne and other lands were advertised for sale in the Landed Estates' Court. A lithograph of the house is included in the sale rental. Later the main family seat was at Carrowroe House, parish of Roscommon. The family also held townlands in the parish of Baslick, barony of Castlerea, Kilbride, barony of Ballintober South and Killukin, barony of Roscommon. In the 1870s three Goff brothers owned about 9,000 acres in county Roscommon. Over 1,200 acres belonging to Thomas C. E. Goff were vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 17 June 1912 and 560 acres belonging to James C. Goff on 31 Mar 1915.
• (Estate) Trant - In 1876 Dominick Dillon Trant offered over 800 acres of his estate in the barony of Castlerea, county Roscommon for sale in the Landed Estates' Court. He had purchased some of these lands in the same court in 1871. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Henry Dillon Trant was leasing a house valued at almost £5 and 130 acres to John Irwin, at Polranny, barony of Castlereagh. At the time of the first Ordnance Survey a townland in the parish of Baslick, barony of Castlereagh, is owned by Trent. It is described as including Fern Hall House. Gormley states that Henry Trant inherited an estate in Roscommon from his grand-uncle who was a Dillon. Trant never resided in Roscommon and Richard Irwin acted as his agent. H.D. Trant still owned over 1,000 acres in county Roscommon in the 1870s.
• (Estate) O'Conor Don - The O'Conor Don ancestral lands were in County Roscommon centred on Clonalis House near Castlerea. Alexander O'Conor Don died in 1820 without male heirs and the title was inherited by the O'Conors of Bellanagare. Some members of the O'Conor family of Bellanagare were distinguished antiquarians, see the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. In 1828 O'Conor Don of Belanagar was a member of the Grand Panel of county Roscommon. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Charles Owen O'Conor was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Kilcorkey and Kilkeevin, barony of Castlereagh. In the 1870s the O'Conor of Clonalis estate amounted to over 12,000 acres in county Roscommon with another 1000+ acres in county Sligo. At the same time Dennis O'Connor of Kingstown, county Dublin, brother of the O'Conor Don held 751 acres in county Roscommon and 287 in county Meath. In 1879 Charles Owen O'Conor offered for sale lands at Drimina, barony of Lyney, county Sligo. By March 1916 a final offer from the Congested Districts' Board for 1,368 acres belonging to Charles W. O'Conor, nephew of Charles Owen O'Conor Don had been accepted. A similar acreage (1,382) the estate of his mother Ellen I. O'Conor was vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 10 Feb 1916. The estate and family records are still held at Clonalis House. See www.clonalis.com for more information.
• (Estate) Irwin (Beechwood) - Christopher Irwin of Newtown and Leabeg, barony of Ballymoe, county Roscommon was a younger brother of John Irwin ancestor of the Irwins of Rathmoyle and Fernhall. In 1749 John Irwin was farming at Oran; Patt Duigonan was described as an agent of Newtown; John Irwin, a gentleman, lived at Leabeg and James Irwin son and heir of Christopher Irwin of Newtown was living at Rocksborough in the parish of Kilbride. In the 1850s Daniel H. Irwin, held an estate in the parishes of Killinvoy and Kilmeane, barony of Athlone, and in the parish of Drumatemple, barony of Ballymoe, county Roscommon. He was an nephew and one of the heirs of John Ferrall. On 26 Nov 1856 Daniel H. Irwin of Beechwood, county Roscommon, married Clarinda, daughter of Leonard Hodson of Hodson's Bay. Over 1,200 acres in the baronies of Athlone and Ballymoe belonging to Irwin were advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court in June 1858. A further 596 acres in the baronies of Castlerea and Ballymoe were offered for sale in June 1862. James Nolan Irwin of Beechwood owned 1,849 acres in county Roscommon in the 1870s.
• (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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