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(Estate) Cuffe (Tireragh) - Alexander Cuffe is recorded as the occupier of the property in Farrenmacfarrell townland, barony of Tireragh, in 1906, including the mansion house.
(Estate) Howard - In 1906 James Howard owned over 200 acres of untenanted land and the mansion at Moorfield, Kilquain.
(House) Ballinaboy House - In 1837 Lewis describes this house as a "handsome modern mansion surrounded with young and thriving plantations". John Moloney held Ballinaboy House in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £40. Lewis described it as "a handsome modern mansion, the seat of J. Moloney" in 1837. It is still extant and occupied.
(House) Graiguenoe - In 1837 Lewis refers to C. Clarke "who has recently erected a spacious and elegant mansion on his estate". In 1850 this mansion was valued at £44.12 shillings and it was held in fee by Charles Clarke. Slater noted it as the seat of James Neville Clarke in 1894 and the Clarkes were still resident at Granguenoe Park in the early 20th century. The house was burnt in 1923. The site is now occupied by a stud farm.
(House) Ballintava - In 1906 Samuel Barret owned the mansion house at Ballintava which was valued at almost £14. House extant and appears to be in the process of renovation.
(House) Killareeny - The Return of Untenanted Lands [1906] records a mansion house valued at £25 at Killareeny, parish of Aughrim, the property of George K. Mahon. This property was built in the late nineteenth century and is labelled Killareeny House on the 25-inch Ordnance Map of the 1890s. Rev. John Crawford was the lessor of the townland at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The original house is not extant now.
(House) Carrick House - The sale rental of 1851 records Walter Herbert holding the mansion house and demesne on a renewal lease dated 1796. This house no longer exists.
(House) Clonkeen House (Barrington) - Croker Barrington, second son of Sir Croker Barrington, was the occupant of a mansion house at Clonkeen (Barrington) in 1906, valued at £48. The Barringtons owned a house in this area at the time of Griffith's Valuation which was valued at almost £10. This older property is known as Clonkeen House and was enlarged later in the nineteenth century. The 25-inch Ordnance Survey Map of the 1890s shows a second property, labelled Barrington's Bridge House [R683547]. This latter property is locally known as The Red House. Houses are still extant at both sites. Clonkeen House was offered for sale in 2013.
(House) Garranes (Templemartin) - In 1837 Lewis describes Garranes as "a newly erected and handsome house, near the old family mansion, the residence of J. Splaine". At the time of Griffith's Valuation, it was held by James Splaine from the Duke of Devonshire's estate and valued at £28. It is still extant.
(House) Killough (Templemore) - Cottage type house built 1880. In 1906 Richard J. Lloyd is recorded as the occupier of a mansion house valued at £27+ in the townland of Killough.
(House) Mullaghawny - Charles 'Sturgeon' (Strogen) was resident at Mullaghawny when Leet's Directory was compiled in 1814 and the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books refer to the dilapidated state of a mansion house in the townland of Mullaghawny belonging to Charles Strogen.
(House) Mount Campbell - Josias Rowley was leasing the property at Mount Campbell, valued at £35, to Wm. A. Lawder at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Slater refers to it as the seat of William S. Lawder in 1894. In 1906 William Rowley owned the mansion at Mount Campbell valued at £40. The house is no longer extant.
(House) Hollypark - In 1814 Hollypark was the seat of Pierce Blake and at the time of Griffith's Valuation the property of Peter Blake when it was valued at £20. In 1894, Slater referred to it as the seat of Col. M.P. Blake. In 1906 Maria C. White held the mansion house at Hollypark. It is still extant and occupied.
(House) Castleplunkett - Gormley states that the Plunketts built a mansion near Castleplunkett village sometime between 1655-1660. This building was later destroyed by fire in the mid-nineteenth century and the stones later used in building in the area.
(House) Quilty House - Summer residence of the Crowe family, this house is marked on the first Ordnance Survey map of the 1842. Valued at £25 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Recorded as a mansion house in 1906.
(House) Loughananna - At the time of Griffith's Valuation a house at Loughananna was occupied by James McGrath, valued at £10+ and situated on the Kingston estate. By 1906 the mansion house at Loughananna was valued at £50+ and Abel Buckley is recorded as the occupier.
(House) Albert Villa - Occupied by William Finch at the time of Griffith's Valuation and valued at £31. Described in 1856 as a large mansion house, "erected by the late Mr Shannon" and occupied by John C. Drysdale.
(House) Garryspillane House - A mansion house valued at £16.15 shillings was located in this townland in 1906. It was occupied by Stafford Delmege, second son of the Reverend John Delmege, whose representatives owned 525 acres in county Limerick in the 1870s. A house labelled Garryspillane House is shown on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey Map of the 1890s. There is still an extant house at the site.
(House) Curramore - In 1906 Herbert Sullivan is recorded as the occupier of a mansion house valued at £33.5 shillings in the townland of Knockglass. The Irish Tourist Association survey records that this house was demolished by 1944.
(House) Ballybricken House - Described by Lewis in 1837 as the elegant mansion and demesne of D.Connor. It was held in fee by him at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £64. The residence of Capt Denis Connor in 1894. Site now covered by industrial premises.
(House) Birchhill Cottage/Birchhill House - This house was occupied by John Travers at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He held it from Francis Wyse and it was valued at £10.10 shillings. Jane Clerke occupied a mansion house valued at £20 in this townland in 1906. It is labelled Birchhill Cottage on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map but as Birchhill House on the 25-edition of the 1890s. A house is still extant at the site.
(House) Rockvale - Lewis refers to this recently erected mansion of Samuel George Beamish. In the early 1850s it appears to be unoccupied and valued at £12, the land was held by Michael Kelleher from S. G. Beamish. This house no longer exists.
(House) Aghadoe House (Killeagh) - Lewis writes in 1837 that “The present house is about to be replaced by a castellated mansion”. The earlier house is referred to by Wilson in 1786 as the seat of Simon Dring. Aghadoe wasccupied by Thomas M. Green at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The house, valued at £27, was held by him from Sir Arthur De Capell Brooke. The house is no longer extant.
(House) Mount Pleasant - Held in fee by Henry Baldwin in 1851 when it was valued at £30. Lewis described it in 1837 as " a handsome mansion on a commanding eminence in a highly improved demesne". Also the seat of Henry Baldwin in 1814 and referred to by Wilson in 1786 as "Curravordrie, the fine seat of Walter Baldwin". The building is still extant but in poor repair.
(House) Garranes House - Leased by James Splaine from the Devonshire estate in 1851 when it was valued at £28. Described by Lewis in 1837 as a "newly erected and handsome house, near the old family mansion, the residence of J. Splaine".
(House) Horsehead - In 1850, Horsehead was being leased by James Craig from William Lane and was valued at £60. In November 1859 it was offered for sale as part of the Boland estate. Lewis refers to it as the seat of S. Lane in 1837, "an elegent mansion in the Tudor style". It is still extant and occupied.
(House) Dromore - Mrs Rebecca Benn held this house valued at £17 in fee in the mid 19th century. The mansion house at Clonbunny was occupied by William B. Cronyn in 1906. The Benns and Cronyns were related. It was valued at £22.
(House) Dromrahan - A mansion house valued at £20 is recorded at Dromrahan in 1906. Matthew H. Franks was the occupier. This house was built in the second half of the 19th century and is not recorded in Griffith's Valuation.
(Estate) Corscadden - Robert Corscadden is recorded as holding over 800 acres in county Leitrim in 1878. In 1906 Thomas Corscadden held over 100 acres of untenanted land and a mansion house in the townland of Gubinea, Glenade.
(Estate) Haig - In the 1870s James Haig of London is recorded as the owner of over 800 acres in county Galway. The representatives of James Haig owned over 160 acres of untenanted demesne land and the mansion at Moyglass in 1906.
(Estate) Monahan/Monaghan - The Monahan family were occupying Heathlawn house in the mid-19th century. In 1906 James H. Monahan was the owner of over 700 acres of untenanted land in the Killimer area as well as the mansion house at Heathlawn.
(Estate) Hunter & McKay - In 1906 James A. Hunter and H.E. McKay were the owners of over 500 acres of untenanted land in the Killimer area as well as the mansion known as Hearnesbrook which was valued at £44.
(Estate) Grant (Hilton) - In the 1870s G. Fox Grant of Ballylanigan, Callan, county Tipperary owned 292 acres in the county. In 1906 Joseph B. Grant held 91 acres of untenanted land and a mansion house at Ballylanigan.
(House) Castlekevin - Originally a Roche stronghold which was granted to William Thornhill a Cromwellian soldier. It remained the seat of the Thornhill family until the mid 19th century. The old castle was incorporated into a castellated mansion in the 1830s. Lewis writes in 1837 that the ‘present extensive castellated mansion was rebuilt by Mr Thornhill after designs by Mr Flood, in the Elizabethan style’. Sold by the Thornhills in the mid 19th century to the Reeves family in whose possession it remained until the 1930s. Still extant and occupied.
(House) Mount Rivers - The seat of the Phillips family, occupied by Richard Philips in the first half of the 19th century and held by him in fee. The house was valued at £30 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The sale rental of 1874 describes Mount Rivers as "a fine modern country mansion in thorough repair" and gives a description of the rooms and out houses. Wyndham Gabbett occupied the mansion house valued at £27 in 1906. A building is still extant at this site.
(House) Castlecarra - Granted to Sir Henry Lynch after the Restoration, it was the family's main home in county Mayo for much of the 18th century. In 1786 Wilson refers to Castle Carra as the seat of Mr. Lynch. The mansion house and offices at Castlecarra were described in 1844 by Samuel Nicholson as "now almost ruins". Castlecarra was leased to the Brownes of Castlecarra at this time and was part of their property for sale in 1852. The ruins of the original tower house are still extant but much of the surroundings are now covered by forestry.
(House) Cloonmore - In 1786 Wilson refers to Cloonmore as "the fine seat of Mr. Phillips". The house was inhabited by Myles McDonnell in the first two decades of the 19th century. It was described as 'a mansion house in good order and suitable for the accommodation of a gentleman's family' when Phillips sold the estate in 1853. It was unoccupied at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Only the foundations of a flight of steps now remains of the house.
(House) Ballynashee Lodge - At the time of Griffith's Valuation Michael Keogh owned Ballynashee Lodge, valued at £22. In 1906 George Keogh was the owner of the mansion house at Ballynashee valued at £22. Lewis also records this house as a seat of the Keogh family in 1837.
(House) Mount Browne - A house built in the early 18th century and used by the first generations of Brownes at Westport. Wilson describes it as the seat of Mr. Browne in 1786. It was later occupied by Denis Browne, Member of Parliament, brother of the 1st Marquess of Sligo, and other family members. The Irish Tourist Association file states that the mansion was demolished.
(House) Driney - In 1906 the mansion house at Driney was valued at £31. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was occupied by Rev. Walter C. Peyton and was valued at £10. In 1814 it was the residence of Walter Peyton and was also recorded as the seat of the Peyton family in 1837. It was also recorded as a seat of the Peyton family by Taylor and Skinner in 1783. There is no evidence of a house at this site now.
(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) Turoe - Wilson refers to "Tourow" as the seat of Mr. Dolpin in 1786. Oliver Dolphin owned Turoe at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £20. Slater refers to it as the seat of Miss Dolphin in 1894. In 1906 the mansion at Turoe was the property of Hubert Dolphin and was valued at £16. The original house is no longer extant but evidence of the stable yard and walled garden can be seen at the site, close to Turoe Pet Farm.
(House) Ballydugan - In 1786 Wilson refers to Ballydugan as the seat of William Burke. Rev. Michael Burke was the owner of Ballydugan at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £24. In 1906 Michael H. Burke owned the mansion house at Ballydoogan then valued at almost £27. It was burnt in 1922 but rebuilt, with modifications, in 1929. Much of the family and estate archives were destroyed in the fire of 1922. Ballydugan is still extant and occupied.
(House) Corr Lodge/Corr House - At the time of Griffith's Valuation the property at Corr was being leased by R.P.Dolphin to Edmund Mahon. In the 1780s, both Taylor and Skinner and Wilson recorded Corr as a seat of the Dolphin family. Slater refers to it as the seat of Redmond D. in 1846. By the 1890s it had become known as Corr House. In 1906, the mansion house at Corr, valued at £15, was owned by Marcella Blake Forster. It is no longer extant.
(House) Ballymore - Alex Popham was leasing a house valued at £17 to Andrew Irwin at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Writing in 1786 Wilson refers to Ballymore as the seat of Pooley Shuldham, who may have been connected with the Longford family of that name. In 1814 Ballymore was the seat of Edward Elwood. In 1837 Lewis recorded it as the seat of Rev. J. Elwood. It is described as " a mansion in the possession of the late Rev. Elwood's family" at the time of the first Ordnance Survey.
(House) Cloonagh - The home of a branch of the Fallon family from the mid 18th century. Wilson refers to it as the seat of John Fallon in 1786. Occupied by James Mannion in 1814 and described in the 1830s as "a well built modern mansion forming three fourths of a cross". Occupied by James Bailey at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was part of the Trench estate. It is now a ruin.
(House) Ardmullan - Built post 1838 and described as a steward's house at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was occupied by Thomas Pim junior who held it in fee. A mansion valued at £23 was still in the possession of Thomas Pim in 1906. The house no longer exists but some of the yard buildings remain.
(House) Strokestown House - Late 17th century house altered in the early 19th century and home of the Mahon family for three centuries. In 1786 Wilson described it as "fine mansion house with ample and beautiful demesne". Referred to as "Bawn House", the mansion of Lord Hartland, by Lewis in 1837. Valued at £70 in the mid 19th century. Now a major tourist attraction containing the Famine Museum. http://www.strokestownpark.ie/
(House) Newmarket House - Home of a branch of the Studdert family in the 19th century. It was described by Lewis in 1837 as the "spacious mansion of C. Studdert". It was occupied by his widow Maria at the time of Griffith's Valuation. She held the property from Lord Inchiquin and it was valued at £25. Sold by the Studderts at the beginning of the 20th century.
(House) Kilbarron - A property originally associated with the Ryan family. Mr Robert McGrath was residing at Kilbaron in 1814 and in 1837 Lewis records that E. McGrath rebuilt the house "on the site of the old mansion". At the time of Griffith's Valuation the buildings valued at £6.5 shillings were held by Edward McGrath in fee. The house is now a ruin.
(House) Ardataggle House - A house known as Fisher's Lodge was located in this townland in 1842 but is not visible on the later 25-inch Ordnance Survey map. The townland of Ardataggle was sold by Thomas Fitzgibbon to Thomas Spaight in 1854. Mrs Spaight was living at Ardataggle House in the 1870s and in 1906 Colonel W. F. Fitzgerald owned the mansion house valued at £41 with 428 acres of untenanted land.
(House) Riddlestown Park - The seat of a branch of the Blennerhassett family, built circa 1730, it passed by inheritance to the Knight of Glin. In 1786 Wilson wrote that it was was the seat of Mr. Blennerhasset. Described by Lewis in 1837 as ''the ancient mansion of Gerald Blennerhassett'' on the banks of the Deel. It was held in fee by Gerald Blennerhasset at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £22. Passed to the Knight of Glin in the early 20th century and then sold. It is still extant.
(House) Mount Brown - The main residence of the Brown family of Rathkeale until Castle Matrix was restored in the 1830s. Held by them in fee, the buildings were valued at £23 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The mansion house at Dromard was occupied by John Walker circa 1840. In 1906 the house was occupied by the representatives of Col Edward Browne.
(House) Rathkeale Abbey - The residence of J. Hewson in 1837 and previously of the representatives of George Lake [Leake] esq. By the time of Griffith's Valuation the Abbey was in the possession of Daniel Griffin who held it from the representatives of William Lake [Leake]. It was valued at £30. Referred to in 1942 as "a substanial well kept mansion" the property of Major Waller.
(House) Prospect - The home of Powell in the late 1770s and 1780s, , this house was the residence of Sir J. De Burgh Baronet in 1814, of Godfrey Massy in 1837 and of Eyre Lloyd in the early 1850s. Eyre Lloyd held the property from Eyre Powell and it was valued at £46. This mansion house valued at £43 was occupied by Anne G. Crosby in 1906.
(House) Ballyknockane - The home of the Scanlan family from at least 1814 when Michael Scanlan was resident. Occupied by William Scanlan at the time of Griffith's Valuation, held by him in fee and valued at £25+. In 1906 William Scanlan held 145 acres of untenanted land and a mansion valued at £22 at Ballyknockane. Residence of Miss Reynolds in 1944.
(House) Downdaniel - The representatives of Chambre Corker were leasing this property to Rev. Richard Lane Connor at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £40. Lewis records it as the seat of Rev. Connor in 1837 when he describes it as a "modern mansion near the old castle". In the 1870s Downdaniel is recorded as the address of James Young Sandys. It is still extant.
(House) Glenasrone - Built in the early 1850s for Richard Ellis MP to the design of John Joseph Lyons. In 1906 this mansion house was valued at £25.17 shillings and was occupied by Richard Ellis. Cussen writes that this house was burnt during the "Troubles". Grid Reference is approximate.
(House) Castle Bernard - Described by Lewis in 1837 as " a stately mansion, built in 1806, adjacent to the site of the former castle" and originally known as Castle Mahon. It was the seat of the Bernard family in the late 1770s and 1780s and then known as Castlebernard. Occupied by Viscount Bernard at the time of Griffith's Valuation and valued at £120. It was burnt in June 1921 and is now a ruin adjacent to Bandon Golf Club.
(House) Doon (Kinsale) - Rev. John Webb was leasing this property from the representatives of John Kearney at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £13 10s. An Encumbered Estates Sale notice of January 1851 indicates the mansion house at Doon was originally part of the Sullivan estate. Doon is still extant.
(House) Rathmore House (Kinsale) - Marmaduke Cramer held Rathmore House in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £40. Lewis described it as " a handsome mansion embosomed in flourishing plantations" in 1837 when it was the seat of J. Thomas Cramer. This house is no longer extant.
(House) Oatlands - In 1837, Lewis refers to Oatlands as "the handsome mansion of Captain Knolles" and that their original house at Killeigh was in ruins. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the property was held in fee by Thomas Walton Knowles, when it was valued at £35. There is still an extant house at the site.
(House) Aglish - The Hingstons were resident at Aglish from the early 18th century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation James Hingston owned a house valued at £21 in fee. An "old mansion house" is marked on the first Ordnance Survey map at the Grid Reference W469715. The current Aglish House was built after that and appears on the 25-inch map of the 1890s. It is still extant.
(House) Moydilliga/Modeligo - In the mid 19th century this house was the home of Henry Braddell. It was valued at £16 and held by him in perpetuity. Wilson, writing in 1786, refers to it as the seat of Mr. Armstead. By 1906 the mansion house at Moydilliga was valued at £42 and occupied by Henry Braddell. In the early 20th century the property passed to the Haskins-Braddells. Sold by them in 1950, this house is still a family home.
(House) Ahanesk - A house on the shore of Cork Harbour occupied by William Oliver Jackson at the time of Griffith's Valuation and held by him in fee. It was valued at £24. In 1906 a mansion house in the townland of Ballyvodock East was valued at £98. The house passed by marriage to the Sadlier Jackson family and in the mid 20th century became the home of the Lomers.
(House) Maryborough - In 1786 Wilson refers to Maryborough as the seat of Mr Newnhan and it was also a Newenham home in the 19th century, occupied by R. Newingham in 1814, by Edward Eyre Newenham in 1837 and at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He held the property in fee and the buildings were valued at £80. Thomas Sherrard held a mansion house valued at £61 in this townland in 1906. It is now part of a large hotel complex.
(House) Castle White - Occupied by Whyte Esq in the 1770s Wilson refers to this property as Rochfordstown in 1786. George M. White was the owner in 1837 and held by him in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the house was valued at £35. Lucia P. Hawkes was recorded as the occupier of two mansion houses in this townland in 1906, one valued at £27 and the other at £53. Castle White is still extant.
(House) Cleve Hill - Samuel Perrott was residing at Cleve Hill in 1837 and in the early 1850s when the house was valued at £68 and held from Alexander McCarthy. Cleve Hill a modern family mansion on 13 acres was advertised for sale in October 1873, the estate of Joseph Gadsden Nash and Arthur Power Harty, bankrupts.
(House) Damer's Court - In 1837 Lewis refers to this house as follows "built about a century ago by John Damer, passed to the Earl of Dorchester and then to Lady Caroline Damer his daughter and sole heir and is now the property of the Earl of Portarlington. The mansion was taken down in 1776". It is marked on Taylor and Skinner's map. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as "the very noble and beautiful seat of Lord Milton", On the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map it is labelled "Damerville Court [in ruins]". There is no trace of this house now.
(House) Longford - The Ordnance Survey Name Books refer to Robert Lloyd as the proprietor of Longford House in the 1840s and it was occupied by him and held from Thomas Prince Lloyd at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the house was valued at £16. A mansion house in the townland of Longford valued at £34+ was occupied by James Lloyd in 1906. A building is still located at this site.
(House) Woodstock House (County Waterford) - John Hackett was leasing this property to Thomas Walsh in 1851 when it was valued at £21. It was included in the sale notice for the Walsh estate in May 1851 where it is noted that "a sum of over £2000 was expended in building the mansion". The house appears to have also been known as Whitechurch House. In 1894 Slater refers to it as the seat of Lt-Col. Charles Hely. The ruin of the original house was still visible until this century but a modern building occupies the site now.
(House) Aghsmear - This house is not marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map. Griffith's Valuation records a house of £4.5 shillings valuation occupied by Dr Patrick Cleary and held from Joseph Griffith. Joseph Griffith lived at Aghsmear in the 1870s and he was still resident in 1906 when the mansion house was valued at £22+.
(Estate) Phibbs - The Phibbs family held estates in different parts of county Sligo, this branch settled at Doobeg in the 19th century. There was significant land agitation on this estate in the early 20th century. In 1906 Charles Phibbs is recorded as the occupier of property at Doobeg, including a mansion house.
(Estate) Ashley - The Ashley estate consisted of lands in the Mullaghmore area of north Sligo which had previously been part of the Temple (Lords Palmerston) estate. In 1906 the Hon. Evelyn Ashley owned over 1000 acres of untenanted lands including a mansion house.
(Estate) Hosie - In 1906 John Hosie, is recorded as the occupier of property at Castle Dargan townland, barony of Tirerrill, including mansion house and almost 200 acres of untenanted land. Castle Dargan was previously a seat of the Ormsby family. Johnston states that the Hosie family had been millowners in Dromahaire since 1849.
(Estate) Stack (Tirerrill) - The Stack family acquired the property at Castle Neynoe during the 19th century. In 1906 M.F.B. Stack is recorded as the occupier of property at Ballysumaghan townland, barony of Tirerrill, including a mansion house. Maurice Stack accepted an offer on over 450 acres from the Congested Districts Board in 1914.
(Estate) Tweedy - The estate at Cloonamahon passed into the hands of the Tweedy family thorough the marriage of Meredith to Henry Tweedy. In 1862, Mr. Tweedy is recorded as the purchaser, in the Landed Estates Court, of a plot of land owned by Loughlin Redican. In 1906 Dr. Henry Tweedy is recorded as the occupier of property at Cloonamahon including a mansion house. In 1911 an offer on over 400 acres of the estate was accepted from the Congested Districts Board.
(Estate) Kelly (Tiranascragh) - At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Patrick Kelly was occupying a property at Gortadullisk, parish of Tiranascragh, barony of Longford, valued at £12. In 1906 Denis Kelly owned over 170 acres of untenanted land at Gortadullisk as well as a mansion house.
(Estate) Martin (Ballynakill) - Andrew Martin was leasing property at Eagle Hill, parish of Ballynakill, barony of Leitrim, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In 1906 Anne Martin held over 150 acres of untenanted demesne lands and a mansion house valued at £15 at Eagle Hill.
(Estate) Brady/Brady-Murray - James Brady-Murray is recorded as holding about 300 acres of untenanted demesne land together with a mansion at Northampton, parish of Kinvarradoorus. This property was previously owned by the Mahon family. William Murray is recorded as the proprietor of over 2000 acres in county Galway in the 1870s.
(House) Dromkeen House - Fitzgerald refers to the old mansion of the Burghs as standing opposite the old walls of a church. Lewis refers to Dromkeen as "formerly the residence of the Burgh family" then occupied by the Reverend M. Lloyd, and that "the remains of the ancient mansion show it to have been an extensive and important establishment". A house at this site was occupied by Henry Croker at the time of Griffith's Valuation and valued at £34. It was held from Robert Smithwick. The Ordnance Survey Name Book refers to this house as William's Fort and states that it first belonged to the Burgh family and was rebuilt in 1820. Valued at £17 in 1906 and occupied by Digby H. De Burgh.
(House) Dunboy Castle - Noted by Lewis as the residence of J.L. Puxley in 1837 and held in fee by him in 1852, when the property was valued at £50. In 1894 Slater refers to it as the residence of R. O'Brien Studdert who had married, as his second wife, Maria Puxley. In 1906 the mansion was the property of Henry L. Puxley and valued at £85. The original house was built in several stages, the most recent in the 1860s, close to the ruins of the old O'Sullivan castle, the site of the siege of Dunboy in 1602. The Puxley mansion was burnt in June 1921 during the War of Independence and remained a ruin until the early years of this century. Restoration work has taken place with the intention of converting the house to a hotel but this has not yet reached completion.
(Estate) Smyth (Masonbrook) - The Smyths acquired property in and around the Loughrea area in the early 19th century. In 1828 they purchased large portions of the estate of the ffrenches of Rahasane, including a number of townlands in the parish of Cummer, barony of Clare. Masonbrook, which became the centre of their estate, had been sold by the Mason family to the Dalys of Dalyston in the 18th century. In 1862, lands belonging to John Blakeney were sold in the Landed Estates Court. The purchasers included James Smyth of Masonbrook. The Smyth estate amounted to over 9000 acres in the 1870s. In 1906 John J. Smyth was in possession of about 600 acres of untenanted land and a mansion house at Cooleeny, Kilmeen. At the same time he held over 700 acres of untenanted land and a mansion valued at £60 at Moanmore, Loughrea.
(House) Glenade - Glenade was built c.1833 as a residence for Cairncross Cullen and is still extant. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was valued at £30. Since 2005 it has been offered for sale. Glenade House was the residence of Loftus Tottenham during the Famine. The family also owned Cornwall House in Bundoran. In 1906 Thomas Corscadden owned 100 acres of untenanted land and a mansion house valued at £14 in the townland of Gubinea .
(House) Tynte Lodge - Joseph Tynte was leasing lands from the White estate and later purchased 30 acres of land from Lord Massy (who had inherited that estate) for the building of Tynte Lodge. The Inventory of Architectual Heritage, however, contends that Tynte Lodge was built in the eighteenth century so perhaps Tynte was reconstructing an earlier building. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the property at Tullaghan was valued at £18 and was leased by Tynte to Hugh Montgomery. In 1906 Mervyn Tynte was the owner of the mansion house at Tullaghan valued at £51.
(House) Dalgan - Built in 1801 as the new home of the Kirwan family formerly of Claremount, Claremorris. It was bought by the Duke of Bedford in 1853 for Lady de Clifford, the wife of his first cousin. In the 1860s Henry Edward Joly and Charles Joly are recorded at Dalgan Park (''Connaught Telegraph'' 27 March 1867). In 1894 Slater noted it as the seat of Allan J. Algie. The house became a seminary for the missionary Society of St Columban in 1918. The Irish Tourist Association file describes the fine mansion as in ruins. It contained about 50 rooms and had been stripped of its roof and fittings about a year previously, circa 1944. It is now demolished.
(House) Newtown Lynch - O'Connell states that Newtown was built around 1795. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the townland of Doorus Park was part of the estate of Patrick Lynch of Renmore. John W. Lynch is recorded as the owner of this mansion house, valued at £13, in 1906. On the Ordnance Survey maps it is labelled Newtown House. It has been in ruins since the 1930s.
(House) Derrymaclaughna - A house appears to be located near the castle on the first Ordnance Survey map of 1838. The Ordnance Survey Name Books mention the ruins of a castle, a mansion house and a chapel in the townland. The property belonged to the Burke family in the 18th century as Wilson noted it as the seat of Mr. Burke in 1786. It became the residence of Thomas P. O'Flahertie of the Lemonfield family in the early 19th century. He was married to a daughter of Ulick Burke of Derrymaclaughna. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was occupied by Thomas Cullinane who held it from James Browne. Derrymaclaughna was the residence of Alan Parker Close in the 1870s.
(House) Pallas - Pallas was the largest of the Nugent properties in the parish of Tynagh, which also included Spring Garden, Flower Hill and Crannagh, a property that had been used in the eighteenth century. A mansion was built at Pallas for Anthony Nugent, 4th Lord Riverston, in 1797. Slater, in 1846, refers to the Hon. Anthony Nugent residing at "The Palace". At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was the property of Anthony Nugent and was valued at £46. In 1906 it was owned by the Earl of Westmeath and was valued at £52. It was demolished after World War II. A well-preserved tower house and the remains of a large 17th century residence can also be seen at Pallas.
(House) Summerville/Thomastown - Home of Dominick G. Bodkin in 1814. The Bodkins intermarried with the Kilkellys. In 1855 the mansion house was described as 3 storeys high and in good repair. By the 1870s John Lyons of Summerville, Moylough, owned 218 acres in county Galway. In 1906 another source records Summerville, valued at £13.10 shillings, as occupied by John Lyons. Renovated in 2006 by its present owner Pat Lyons.
(House) Clooncah - In 1778, Clooncah was a property of the Daly family. and Wilson mentions it as the seat of Peter Daly in 1786. Lewis records it as the seat of P. Daly in 1837. William Galway held this property at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £30. According to local tradition, Clooncah House was demolished in the early twentieth century and the stone used in the construction of the new National School at Attymon.
(House) Castlegrove - Originally a Blake house, it was occupied by the Lewins from 1888. Wilson refers to Castle-Grove as the seat of Mr. Blake in 1786. It would seen that this house was replaced in the nineteenth century as, although listed in Leets directory of 1814, the sale rental of 1852 records Castlegrove as a mansion house erected 'within the last twelve years'. It included a ballroom, oak staircase and numerous bedrooms. It was bought by John William Cannon. The sale rental includes a lithograph of the house. Castlegrove was burnt in 1922 and is now a ruin.
(House) Claremont - Described in the Ordnance Survey Name Books as a 'neat modern building', the house was located close to the bank of the River Suck. It was the home of Gonville ffrench and he held it from the D'Arcy family. In the D'Arcy sales rental of May 1851 there is reference to 'the splendid mansion' of Gonville ffrench. Occupied by the Honourable Clarinda ffrench in the 1850s who held the property from the Right Honourable Richard W. Greene, valued at £21. The house is now a ruin.
(House) Carrowroe Park - The home of the Goff family in the 19th century. Described by Lewis as a substantial and handsome mansion of limestone with a Doric portico, the residence of R. Goff. In the 1850s occupied by the Reverend William Battersby, who held the property from the Earl of Essex. Reverend Battersby was married to Mary Maud Caulfield, a daughter of John Caulfield, Archdeacon of Kilmore. The house was valued at £65. By the 1870s the residence of John Burke and the seat of Lt-Col. Michael A. Burke in 1894. Still extant and offered for sale in 2008 (Irish Times, 5 June 2008).
(House) Knockadoo - Knockadoo was the home of the Knott family in the mid 18th century. Robert Knott was resident there in 1749. Robert Elwood was leasing a house at Knockadoo from Viscount Lorton at the time of Griffith's Valuation. it was valued at £24. In the 1870s it is recorded as the address of Joseph Bennett Little. Earlier, at the time of the first Ordnance Survey it is described as "a fine mansion resided in by Owen Lloyd".
(House) Mountplunkett - Built in 1806 by George Plunkett and home of the Plunkett family until the mid 19th century when it became the property of Patrick Grehan. Described in the Crotty sale rental of 1851 as a 'superb mansion' repaired by Mr Crotty at a cost of upwards of £2,000. Grehan held the house, valued at £30, in fee, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Samuel Richard Prosser lived in Mount Plunkett in the 1860s. The entrance gates are still in use but only walls remain of the house and outbuildings. Robert Adamson was apparently living at Mount Plunkett in the 1870s.
(House) Scregg - A Kelly home built in 1767, occupied by J.E. Kelly in 1837 and Eliza Kelly in the 1850s. In the sale rental of 1856 the house is described as a respectable mansion, 3 stories high with basement and attic stories and a view of the Shannon River. Occupied in 1906 by the representatives of Henry Potts. The house is extant but no longer lived in. It is currently (2009) being restored with support from the Irish Georgian Society, see http://www.igs.ie/Programmes/Conservation-Grants/Scregg-House.aspx
(House) Castlefergus - A Blood Smyth property from the late 18th century, sold by the Blood Smyth to the Bloods of Ballykilty in the early 20th century. This house was occupied by Daniel Powell in 1814 but the Blood Smyths were in residence in the 1830s and 1850s. They appear to have held the property from Ralph Westropp. The mansion house of Castlefergus was in the possession of Rev William Blood Smith in 1906. The Irish Tourist Association Survey File records that the house was demolished by the Irish Land Commission.
(House) Craggaunowen Castle - 16th century tower house, "in ruins" at the time of the first Ordnance Survey. The castle, herd's house and 96 acres were in the possession of the Reverend William Ashworth in the mid 19th century, who held them from a Caswell. A mansion house valued at £13 was in the possession of Count James Considine in 1906. The castle was bought by John Hunt in the mid 1960s and was the first home of the Hunt Museum.
(House) Ballinahinch - A branch of the Molony family appear to have occupied Ballinahinch for some time in the 18th century. Occupied by Cornelius O'Callaghan in 1814 and 1837 and by his son Charles George in the mid to late 19th century. It is recorded as his seat in 1894. By 1906 Ballynahinch mansion house valued at £45 was in the possession of the Gore family. Weir writes that owners left when the "Troubles" began early in the 20th century and the house was vandalised. It was later demolished. The yard buildings remain and are still in use.
(House) Derrymore - The MacGraths had a 17th century home here which was incorporated into the servants' quarters when the Gores built their 18th century mansion. They continued to occupy the house until the early 20th century. The 17th century house and servants' quarters still stand but the rest of the house has been demolished. Some of the stone and stone features from Derrymore were taken to build a house near Drewsborough on the outskirts of Scarriff, Discovery Map 58, R637 836.
(House) Ballyleaan Lodge - Lewis records Ballylane Lodge as the residence of W. Coppinger. At the time of Griffith' s Valuation William Coppinger held in fee at Ballyleaan 142 acres, a lodge, offices and gate lodge. The property was later inherited by the O'Connell family and by marriage passed to John Charles Coppinger O'Connell (later Bianconi) in the 1870s. The mansion house valued at £41 was in the possession of John O'Connell in 1894 and in 1906. Weir writes that the house was completely demolished in 1970.
(House) Liscrona House - A home of the MacDonnell family possibly incorporating their original home before they bought New Hall in the mid 18th century. The present house was probably built post Griffith's Valuation as £1 is the highest house valuation in LIsheencrony at that time. In 1906 the Charles R. A. McDonnell is recorded as owning a mansion house valued at £24+ at Lisheencrony. The house has had a number of owners in the 20th century and was restored in the 1970s.
(House) Mount Trenchard - Lewis described this mansion formerly called Cappa as "beautifully situated on the banks of the Shannon". Marked as "Cappo" on the Taylor and Skinner map of the 1770s. Home of the Rice/Spring Rice family in the 19th century, valued at £40 in the 1850s and at £54 in 1906. Occupied by the Military in 1944, sold to Lady Holland in 1947 and to the Sisters of Mercy in 1953 who opened a school.
(House) Maryville - Built in 1790 and located on the Monsell estate the residence of Hugh F. Finch in 1837 and of Mrs Finch at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the buildings were valued at £28. In 1906 Captain G.W. Finch occupied the mansion house at Maryville valued at £35. Still in the ownership of the Finch family at the time of the Irish Tourist Association survey 1943. This property is now known as Maryville stud.
(House) Rockfield - Situated on the estate of Edward C. Villiers, this house was the home of a branch of the Blennerhassett family in the mid 19th century. It was named Rock View on the first Ordnance Survey map. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Book refers to Rockview as a "plain thatched cottage built in 1819". On the later 25-inch map the house is labelled "Rockfield House". Slater, in 1894, refers to it as the seat of R.B. Blennerhassett. In 1906 Rockfield was described as a mansion house and valued at £22. It was occupied by Richard A. Blennerhassett. A house is still extant at the site.
(House) Roxborough - Occupied by William Westropp in 1814 and Lewis refers in 1837 to the ''fine mansion and demesne'' of the Honourable J. P. Vereker. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Book refers to the rebuilding of Roxborough by Major Vereker in 1832 at the expense of approximately £1200. Viscount Gort held Roxborough in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £40. The house was advertised for sale in June 1852 and again in June 1853. Possibly bought by the McMurrays who were certainly resident by 1862. In 1894 Slater refers to it as the seat of A. Crawford. Now a more modern house appears to be located at this site.
(House) Croom House - Croom House was the home of the Lyons family in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house of James D. Lyons was valued at £48 in the early 1850s and he had a flour mill valued at £75 closeby. He held the property from John Croker. Described in 1943 by the Irish Tourist Association surveyor as a beautiful mansion on the left bank of the Maigue river, it was then in use as a military post. The house is still extant and occupied.
(House) Griston House - The residence of a branch of the Massy family, occupied by Frederick Massy in 1814. Described by Lewis in 1837 as the fine old family mansion of the Masseys. Fitzgerald writes that Charles Massy of Griston was a brother of Lord Massy and 1st Lord Clarina. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was valued at £12 and occupied by Michael McMahon, who held it from Charles O'Brien Massy.
(House) Cappanihane - This house was occupied by John Mason in 1814, by R. Mason in 1837 and in use as an auxiliary workhouse at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when the buildings were valued at £15. This house was the home of John Parker Graham in the 1860s and 1870s. Another house in this townland, Glenbrook Lodge, was occupied in the early 1850s by Myles Mason and valued at £9+, grid reference R492 318. Mary Hamilton held a mansion house valued at £20 and 41 acres of untenanted land at Cappanihane in 1906.
(House) Kilcaskan Castle - At the time of Griffith's Valuation, William O'Neill Daunt held this property in fee when it was valued at £32. In 1837 Lewis notes that it was held by Daunt and describes it as " a handsome castellated mansion". Both Taylor and Skinner and Wilson refer to it as a seat of the Daunt family in the 1780s. In 1894 Slater referred to it as the seat of Achilles Daunt. In 1906 it was also owned by Achilles Daunt and valued at £12 10s. It is still extant.
(House) Corkbeg - The Penrose Fitzgerald Papers in the Boole Library document the building of a mansion house at Corkbeg in the 1820s. It was built to replace an earlier house mentioned by Wilson in 1786 as the seat of Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald. It was held in fee by the Fitzgeralds and valued at £65 in the early 1850s. By 1906 it was valued at £81. Bence Jones writes that the Fitzgeralds sold Corkbeg in the mid 20th century and after functioning as a hotel for a few years was demolished for the establishment of an oil refinery.
(House) Milltown Castle - Originally the home of Thomas Evans, a younger brother of the 1st Baron Carbery, and of his son Eyre Evans. Mary, sister of Eyre Evans, married George Bruce in the mid 18th century. The Castle was subsequently leased by the Evans to the Bruces and it remained the home of the Bruces until the late 19th century. Described by Lewis as “a handsome castellated mansion in the later English style”. Reduced in size in the early 20th century the building continues to be occupied.
(House) Lismacue - The seat of the Baker family in the 18th and 19th centuries, Lismacue was referred to by Wilson as the seat of Mr. Baker in 1786. It was occupied by William Baker in 1814 and by his nephew, Hugh Baker in 1837 when Lewis describes the house as a "handsome castellated mansion". The Ordnance Survey Name Books describe it as "lately erected...the property of John Charters" in 1840. The house was valued at £55 at the time of Griffith's Valuation. This property is still in the possession of a family member and may be rented for country vacations. http://www.lismacue.com/index.htm
(House) Macroom Castle - In 1750 Charles Smith recorded Macroom Castle as the residence of Richard Hedges Eyre. Lewis wrote in 1837 that Macroom was "till very lately..the joint property of the Earl of Bandon and Robert Hedges Eyre" but was then the sole property of the latter, who had converted the ancient castle into an elegant modern mansion. Held by the Honourable William Henry White Hedges in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when the buildings were valued at £80. Slater records it as being a seat of Lord Ardilaun in 1894. Macroom Castle was burnt in 1922 and the impressive gateway is all that remains.
(House) Castlewarren - Robert Warren was leasing this property from Mary and Catherine Rogers at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £35. In 1837 Lewis referred to it as a "spacious mansion erected in 1796, the seat of R. Warren". Townsend refers to it as the seat of Thomas Warren "whose style of farming is conducted on the best principles of modern art". It was included in the sale of Warren's estate in October 1850. Now a ruin.
(House) Seafield - At the time of Griffith's Valuation, this property was held in fee by Robert McMunn. It consisted of a herd's house, valued at 10s and 75 acres. Later, as Seafield House, it was the residence of James McMunn,MD. In 1906 James McMunn, M.D. is recorded as the occupier of property at Killeenduff townland, barony of Tireragh, including a mansion house. Seafield was derelict for some time but has recently been restored.
(House) Ballyclogh - This property was inherited by the Barrys through marriage with a member of the Purdon family. Parts of this house may have dated from the 17th century. Lewis writes of "a handsome mansion in the Elizabethan style". Additions were made in the 19th century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was valued at £34 and held by James Barry in fee. The house was burnt in the 1920s. The north wing survived, built 1904. It was restored and is still a residence.
(House) Palace Anne - Wilson, writing in 1786, refers to Palace Anne as the seat of Mr. Bernard. Both Leet in 1814 and Lewis in 1837 note Palace Anne as the residence of Arthur B. Bernard. It was held in fee by him in 1851 when it was valued at £30. Lewis describes it as " a stately mansion, beautifully situated". Bence Jones states that it was named in honour of Anne LePoer, wife of Arthur Bernard, who built the house in 1714. The house became dilapidated after the sale in the mid-nineteenth century and much of it has been demolished though one wing still survives.
(House) Maryville - The home of Laurence Corban in 1837 when Lewis records it as “ a handsome mansion of recent erection and finely situated on the Funcheon [River]”. Laurence Corban held Maryville House and the mills in perpetuity at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The house was valued at £32 and the mills complex at £160. The Lucas family succeeded to this property and Hajba writes that it became the dower house for nearby Ballynacarriga. In 1965 the house was sold by the Corban Lucas family. It is still a family residence.
(House) Ballyvolane - Hajba writes that Ballyvolane was bought by Sir Richard Pyne of Waterpark, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, from the Coppingers in the early 18th century. It remained in the possession of the Pyne family until the mid 20th century and is still occcupied. Valued at £44 at the time of Griffith's Valuation, the house was occupied by Jasper Pine who held it from Thomas, George and Henry Walker. By 1906 the mansion house at Ballyvolane was valued at £70+ and occupied by George M.Pyne.
(House) Sarsfieldscourt [Old] - In 1837 Lewis refers to Sarsfieldscourt as an ancient mansion "formerly belonging to the Sarsfield family but now to Mr Rutland [Putland] of Dublin". On the first Ordnance Survey map one building is marked as "in ruins". Another building also named Sarsfield's Court is marked closer to the Glashaboy River. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Charles Putland junior was recorded as occupier, holding the house valued at £13 from his father Charles Putland. This latter property is labelled Beechmount on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s. A property labelled Sarsfieldcourt House is also located in the townland on the later map [W723779]. It is no longer extant and St.Stephen's Hospital now occupies the grounds.
(House) Ballykinealy - The proprietor of this house in 1837 was Captain Fitzgerald of the Royal Navy. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Michael Fitzgerald held the property from John Fitzgerald and the buildings were valued at £20. The sale rental of 1861 refers to the house as a mansion "a large and first-class residence". It was occupied by Michael Joseph Fitzgerald, a barrister and younger brother of John Fitzgerald. The National Inventory of Architectual Heritage states that this house was a rectory for some time. Lewis writes that it was formerly "a religious establishment".
(House) Roughgrove - Leased by Benjamin Hosford from the Alcock estate at the time of Grifith's Valuation, when it was valued at £30. It was included in the sale of Hosford's estate in the Encumbered Estates Court in January 1851, when it was noted that it was "a handsome mansion house, occupied by John Ottley who had spent considerable sums on improvement". Both Lewis, in 1837, and Leet, in 1814, refer to it as the seat of Maskelyne Alcock. This is possibly also the property noted by Wilson in 1786 as Ballygarvy. It is no longer extant.
(House) Glengarriff Castle - Sarah White was leasing this property from the Bantry estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at almost £36. In 1837, Lewis described it as "Glengarriff Castle, the seat of Captain White, is a spacious elegant mansion". Local sources suggest the Castle was built in the 1790s by Simon White, a brother of the 1st Earl of Bantry. Noted by Leet as the seat of Simon White in 1814. In 1894 Slater refers to it as the seat of R.H.E. White. It functioned as a resort until the 1970s. Plans are currently in progress to restore the building.
(House) Peppardstown - The home of members of the Henderson family in 1814 and in 1850 when Samuel Henderson held a house valued at £10.14 shillings from Matthew Jacob at Peppardstown. In the mid 1870s Jerome James Guiry was living at Peppardstown, Fethard and the Guiry family were still resident in the early 21st century. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates the present Peppardstown house from circa 1870. Beatrice P. Saunders was occupying the mansion house at Peppardstown in 1906.
(House) Castle Mary - Lewis describes Ashgrove Castle or Castle Mary, the residence of the Reverend Trevor Lloyd Ashe, Lord of the Manor of Bansha, as a "castellated mansion in the Italian style of architecture, situated at the base of the Galtee mountains, 4,000 acres of which are attached to the estate". This house is marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Name Books refer to it as the property of T.L. Ashe "of modern construction but in very bad repair". It is recorded as "in ruins" in the later 25 inch map of the 1890s. Land clearance has taken place in the area and nothing remains of Castle Mary.
(House) Castle Fogarty - Lewis writes that Castle Fogarty was "the ancient seat of the O'Fogarty family from whom it descended to the present proprietor J. Lanigan". He describes it as a "square castellated mansion, with embattled towers at the angles". The seat of the Lenigan family in the 18th and 19th centuries [held from the Earls of Portarlington until the fee was purchased in the mid 19th century]. Noted by Slater as the seat of Captain Vivian Ryan-Lanigan in 1894. A ruin since it was burnt in 1922.
(House) Killoskehane - This house was the seat of the Willington family. In 1837 Lewis wrote that Killoskehane Castle "includes part of the ancient castle in the modern mansion". The property was held by John Willington in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the buildings were valued at £29+. Edward D. Martin was the occupier of Killoskehane in 1906 and William Costigan in the 1940s. The building is still extant and occupied.
(House) Lissenhall - In 1786 Wilson mentions Lissen-Hall as the seat of Mr. Otway. Mr Thomas Devoy occupied Lissenhall in 1814 and in 1837 Rowan P. Cashel was resident. Margaret Dagg held the house valued at £42.13 shillings from the Honourable Mrs Otway Cave at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Lissenhall dwelling house and 242 acres bought for £5000 by William H. Carrol in 1853. In 1906 the mansion house in Lissenhall townland was valued at £30 and occupied by Alice J. Carroll. This house no longer exists.
(House) Summerville/Corbally More - In 1848, Lord Fortescue was leasing this property to Thomas Dillon when it was valued at £38. In 1774, Smith refers to Somerville as the seat of Thomas Wyse. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage indicates that the Scottish-Baronial style mansion now extant was built in the late 1870s. The property is labelled as Summerville on the 6-inch Ordnance Survey map but on the later 25-inch map the new house is labelled Corbally More. It was severely damaged by fire in the twentieth century but re-built and is still extant.
(House) Garrykennedy - In 1786 Wilson refers to Garry-Kennedy as the seat of Mr. Watson. Lewis refers to the houses of G. Watson and - Kent at Garrykennedy. Two houses are marked in the townland on the first edition Ordnance Survey map Garrykennedy and Shannon ville. The Ordnance Survey Name Books describe Garrykennedy as "a good dwelling house, the residence of James Watson". It was bought by William Parker in 1857. By 1906 a mansion house valued at £25+ was located at Garrykennedy. It was occupied by Robert G. Parker. The building known as Garrykennedy House had been expanded and is marked on later maps.
(Estate) Walker - The Walker family were descended from prosperous merchants in Sligo town. James Walker, initially leased and then purchased land in Killaspugbrone parish in the later 18th century. The family established a seat at Rathcarrick and eventually owned over 1500 acres. In the 1870s the representatives of Roger Walker owned over 1580 acres while John F. Walker was the owner of over 600 acres. In 1906 John F. Walker is recorded as the occupier of property at Rathcarrick including a mansion house. The estate was sold in the 1950s and the house is now derelict.
(Estate) O'Hara - The O'Haras were the only Gaelic family to continue as major landowners in County Sligo up to modern times. They held significant estates in the Baronies of Leyny and Corran. Through judicious choice in terms of politics and religion they succeeded in maintaining their role in Sligo political and social life for three centuries. In 1906 Maj. Charles K. O'Hara is recorded as the occupier of property at Annghmore, barony of Leyny, including a mansion house.
(Estate) Hale - The Hales had merchant interests in the town of Sligo but also held extensive landed property in Tireragh barony. McTernan states that this was by virtue of the purchase by Peter Hale of Irwin property in the Encumbered Estates Court in 1855. In 1906, Peter's grandson, James H. Hale was recorded as the occupier of property at Killeenduff townland including a mansion house. In October 1906 over 700 acres of the Hale estate was vested in the Congested Districts Board.
(Estate) Armstrong (Oghil) - The Armstrong family are recorded as holding a modest estate in the parish of Kilglass in 18th century. There is a large burial plot in Kilglass graveyard inscribed "Armstrong 1661-1906" from which we can infer that the family were resident in the area since the mid-17th century. In 1906 Robert W. Armstrong is recorded as the occupier of property at Oghil, including a mansion house. The Armstrong estate was divided by the Congested Districts Board following its purchase in 1916.
(Estate) Verschoyle - The Irwin estate at Tanrego was purchased by Verschoyle in the 1860s. According to the OS name books the Verschoyles had previously held land in the parishes of Kilglass and Kilmoremoy, Barony of Tireragh. Rev. Joseph Verschoyle held Glebe lands in the parish of Kilmoremoy and occupied buildings valued at £30 in 1857. In 1906 Richard J. Verschoyle is listed as the occupier of lands at Tanrego East including the mansion house. In 1912 an offer was accepted from the Congested Districts Board for the purchase of over 1200 acres of the Verschoyle estate.
(Estate) Lougheed - William Black Lougheed purchased the Fenton estate at Dromore West in the later 19th century. He is also recorded as the owner of land in county Leitrim in the 1870s. A William Browne Lougheed is listed as the occupier of property in Dromore townland, barony of Tireragh, in 1906, including the mansion house. The family also held property in the barony of Tirerrill and leased Rockbrook from the Martin estate.
(Estate) Ormsby (Farrenmacfarrell) - The Ormsby family held land in the parish of Kilmacshalgan through much of the 19th century. The property appears under various spellings including Farrellmacfarrell and Faremacfarell in additon to the official Townlands Index spelling of Farrenmacfarrell. James Ormsby was the proprietor of over 550 acres in county Sligo in the 1870s. In 1906 the property at Farrenmacfarrell, including the mansion house, were occupied by Alexander Cuffe.
(Estate) Guilfoyle - At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Thomas Guilfoyle was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Skreen, barony of Tireragh. In 1906 Anthony Guilfoyle is recorded as the occupier of property at Lecarrow townland, barony of Tireragh, including a mansion house. McTernan states that the Sligo family were descended from that of Gilfoyle of Killenaule, county Tipperary, members of whom first came to Sligo in the late eighteenth century and engaged in the linen trade.
(Estate) O'Brien (Carrigallen) - Acheson O'Brien of Drumsilla was High Sheriff of Leitrim in 1810. In 1852 and 1853 over 2000 acres of the estate of Acheson O'Brien, leased from the Bishop of Kilmore, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. The estate of William A. O'Brien of Drumsilla amounted to over 1400 acres in county Leitrim in the 1870s. In 1906 the representatives of William A. O'Brien were the owners of over 100 acres of untenanted land at Carrigallen as well as the mansion house at Drumsillagh.
(Estate) Peyton (Driney) - This estate, amounting to 1210 acres was the property of Rev. Walter Peyton, incumbrant of Billas, Virginia, county Cavan, in 1876. This branch of the Peyton family, like that at Loughscur, was descended from Humphrey Peyton, of Boyle, county Roscommon, who died in the 1660s.George Hamilton Cunningham Peyton of Driney was High Sheriff of Leitrim in 1815. In 1906 the representatives of the Revd. Walter Peyton held over 150 acres of untenanted land at Driney as well as the mansion house.
(Estate) Birchall - The Birchall (sometimes spelt Burchall) estate held lands in the parish of Kiltoghert, county Leitrim. The estate was centred on Blackrock House, near Drumshanbo. Robert Birchall, of Lishugh, county Roscommon and Blackrock, was High Sheriff of Leitrim in 1670. Arthur J.Birchall of Blackrock was a member of the Leitrim Grand Jury in 1851. The Birchall estate was just over 1,400 acres in the 1870s. In 1906 the Birchall estate held less than 100 acres of untenanted land in the Drumshanbo area as well as the mansion house at Blackrock.
(Estate) McDonnell (Achill) - Mrs Agnes McDonnell bought the estate of the Earl of Cavan on Achill Island, county Mayo in 1888. The estate was over 2,000 acres and she is recorded as living in a mansion at the Valley, Tonatanvally. She had one son Leslie Elliot by her first marriage. Her second husband was John Randall MacDonnell. In 1894 she was attacked by James Lynchehaun which resulted in a sensational court case and escape to America by the accused. http://www.achilltourism.com/history2.html
(Estate) Gibbings (Co Mayo) - In the 1870s the Reverend Richard Gibbings, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Trinity College, Dublin, owned an estate of over 4000 acres in the parish of Burrishoole, barony of Burrishoole, county Mayo, previously the Newfield estate of Henry J. Smith. Untenanted lands in a number of townlands were still in the family's possession in 1906 but no mansion house is recorded for Newfield. The estate of 4,069 acres was vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 25 Mar 1915. Professor Gibbings was a cousin of Bartholomew Gibbings of Gibbings Grove, county Cork.
(Estate) O'Rorke (Oldcastle) - The O'Rorkes owned an estate in the parish of Meelick, barony of Gallen, county Mayo, which they appear to have purchased from John Bolingbroke of Oldcastle. In 1906 they occupied the mansion house at Oldcastle. By March 1916 P.J.O'Rorke had accepted an offer from the Congested Districts' Board for his estate of 1193 acres in county Mayo. A Bryan O'Rourk was granted 405 acres in the barony of Gallen in 1680.
(Estate) Nolan (Ardrahan) - The OS Name Books record John Nolan, of Prospect, Gort, as a proprietor in the parish of Ardrahan in the 1830s. Andrew O'Kelly Nolan is recorded as the owner of over 600 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. He was a medical doctor. In 1906 Andrew B. Nolan held about 200 acres of untenanted demesne land at Bullaunagh together with a mansion house valued at £17.
(Estate) Eccles - J.E. Eccles, a gentleman, is recorded as resident in the parish of Tumna, barony of Boyle, county Roscommon, in the Census of Elphin, 1749. In 1906 Major Gerard Eccles is recorded as the occupier of property at Moneygold townland, barony of Carbury, including mansion house. In January 1852 the estate of Alexander O'Connor Eccles and Charlotte Eccles, located in the barony of Boyle, county Roscommon, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. Charlotte O'Connor Eccles was a journalist writing on women's issues in London towards the end of the nineteenth century. [Blackwood's Magazine, CLIII (1893), 830-838.]
(Estate) O'Farrell/Farrell (Dalystown Demesne) - In the 1830s Dalystown House is described as the home of Dr. O'Ferrall. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Dalystown was occupied by Charles Farrell. In March 1885 lands belonging to Charles O'Farrell in the barony of Leitrim, county Galway were offered for sale in the Land Judges court. This included Streamstown and Ballindrimina. In the 1870s Charles O'Farrell was the owner of over 5000 acres in county Galway. In 1906 Charles O'Farrell held over 500 acres of untenanted demesne and a mansion house at Dalystown.
(Estate) Burke (Tintrim) - John Burke of Tintrim is recorded as a resident proprietor in 1824. Tintrim was also recorded as the seat of John Burke in 1814 and by Lewis in 1837. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, John A. Burke was occuping the house valued, at £11, at Tintrim, parish of Clonrush, barony of Leitrim, county Galway. In May 1867 the mansion house and almost 600 acres at Tintrim, the property of Edmund Burke, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates court. Edmund Burke died in Pennsylvania, USA in 1890.
(Estate) O'Kelly (Gortray/Fairfield) - Ambrose O'Kelly was the one of the principal lessors in the parish of Kilmalinoge, barony of Longford, county Galway at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The estate of William O'Kelly of Gortray amounted to over 900 acres in the 1870s. In 1906 John A. O'Kelly owned over 500 acres of untenanted land in Kilmalinoge including the mansion house at Gortray. The property later passed by the inheritence to the Deasy family. In 2007 it was offered for sale.
(Estate) Lewis (Galway) - An Aylward property from the 17th century, which passed by a marriage in 1824 to a branch of the Lewis family of county Cork. The representatives of John M.A. Lewis were recorded as the owners of over 6000 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. The address is given as Ballynagar, Loughrea. In 1906 the representatives of John M.A. Lewis owned over 500 acres of untenanted demesne land and a mansion house valued at £16 at Ballynagar. In 1915 over 500 acres of the Lewis estate was vested in the Congested Districts Board.
(Estate) Adamson (Glenfarne) - William Lawrence Adamson was born in Dublin in 1829. He was a solicitor and very successful business man, who became grand seneschal of the Isle of Man in the 1860s. In 1906 one of W.L. Adamson's sons Colonel John George Adamson owned almost 400 acres of untenanted land at Glenfarne, county Leitrim as well as the mansion house there. The estate timber was later bought by Edward Harland of the Harland & Wolf Shipyard in Belfast. http://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/lindenHall/history/theadamsonfamily.htm
(Estate) Hibbert - The Reade estate at Woodpark, parish of Inishcaltra, passed to the Hibbert family through the marriage of Robert Fiennes Hibbert of Bucknell Manor, Oxfordshire and Flora Reade in 1887. In 1906 Flora Hibbert held over 3000 acres of untenanted land in the parish of Inishcaltra, now located in the barony of Leitrim, county Clare. The mansion house of Woodpark was valued at £69.
(Estate) Lefroy (Killaloe) - This was a junior branch of the Lefroy family of Carrig-glass, county Longford. They were descended from the Reverend Henry Lefroy who married Dorothea O'Grady of Kilballyowen, county Clare in 1814. Their third son, Henry Maunsell, lived at Fern Hollow, Killaloe. He had a milling business in the town. Weir writes that a house named Cambrai was built at Knockyclovaun, parish of Killaloe, for Henry M. Lefroy's son in the early 20th century. Henry M. Lefroy is recorded as owning a mansion house at Knockyclovaun valued at £33 in 1906.
(Estate) Watkins - In June 1853 the estate of John Watkins of the city of Dublin, an insolvent, was advertised for sale. This included the mansion house and demesne of Old Court and about 2,000 acres at Wallstown, Ballyellis, Ballyandrew and Lougheagle in the barony of Fermoy, county Cork. Most of this land was held on a lease dated 1724 from the Earl of Doneraile to John Watkins. Old Court was leased to John Stawell in 1813 by John Watkins and St Leger John Watkins.
(Estate) Parker (Passage West) - The Parker family were resident at Passage West from the early eighteenth century and were prominent in the life of the city, including Harding Parker who was Mayor of Cork. In 1875, Hanna Maria Parker, executrix of Richard Neville Parker, offered for sale the demense lands and Mansion House of Waterview, Passage West, in the barony of Kerrycurrihy, county Cork. The sale notice indicates the property was held by fee farm grant from members of the de Vesci family.
(Estate) White (Rochfordstown) - A family established at Rochfordstown from the 18th century. In 1785 Swithin White married Mary Martin of London. He died in 1807. At the time of Griffith's Valuation George White held land in the parish of Inishkenny, barony of Cork. In the 1870s George Martin White owned 587 acres in county Cork. Lucia P. Hawkes was recorded as the occupier of two mansion houses in this townland in 1906, one valued at £27 and the other at £53.
(Estate) Bunbury (Woodville) - ''The Irish Law Times and Solicitors Journal'' Vol 3 records the purchase of the lands of Woodville, 237 acres in the barony of Upper Ormond, county Tipperary, by Captain G. W. Bunbury in 1869 for £4,250. In the 1870s George W. Bunbury of Woodville owned 516 acres in county Tipperary. In 1906 Alice M.M. Bunbury occupied the mansion house Woodville and held 235 acres of untenanted land there.
(House) Rathpeak House [Woodpark Lodge] - Owen Lynch was occupying the house at Rathpeak at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £14. Lewis records Woodpark as his seat in 1837. This is also the property listed as his residence in 1814. At the time of the first Ordnance Survey in 1837 the house, known as Rathpeak House, is described as "a fine house, three stories high and in tolerable repair". When the property was advertised for sale in the Landed Estates' Court in 1861 Woodpark Lodge was described as a mansion house which originally cost several thousand pounds to build. There is now no sign of the house and there are modern farm sheds at the stables. Family history sources suggest the house was demolished in the latter years of the twentieth century.
(House) Moy Lodge - Also known as Carrowgar House, this early 19th century house was built by Sir Augustine Fitzgerald. Possibly the house named 'Moy' occupied by John Finucane in 1814. Lewis describes Moy as the occasional residence of Sir W. Fitzgerald. Weir writes that it was purchased by George Studdert, sixth son of Charles Fitzgerald Studdert of Newmarket House in the mid 19th century. It was still in the possession of Sir Edward Fitzgerald at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In 1894 Slater refers to it as the seat of Major George Studdert but Lady C.E. Fitzgerald was resident in 1906 when the mansion house was valued at £25. Now functions as a guesthouse, a member of 'The Blue Book'.
(House) Raheen - This was the home of the Brady family from the mid 18th century. In 1837 the Reverend Thomas B. Brady occupied the house. By the time of Griffith's Valuation William Moreland was in possession and the house, offices and mill valued at £4.10 shillings were leased to Patrick Flynn. In 1906 buildings at Raheen ,which included a mansion house and 401 acres of untenanted land belonging to Robert W. Moreland, were valued at £37. In 1908 the property was bought by S.R. MacLysaght of Mallow, father of Dr Edward MacLysaght, genealogist. The Irish Tourist Association Survey file refers to Raheen Hospital beautifully situated amid a large forest on the shores of Lough Derg. The house no longer exists.
(House) Shannon Grove - Originally the home of the Bury family, Earls of Charleville, overlooking the Shannon estuary. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Books record this house as 4 storied built in 1709. Bence Jones dates this house from the early 18th century. Lewis writes that Shannon Grove was the old family mansion of the Earls of Charleville and "now the residence of Bolton Waller". Bolton Waller held the property in fee in the early 1850s when the buildings were valued at £43 and the demesne was over 400 acres. Bought by John Sheehy of Askeaton in 1860 and remained in the possession of his descendants until the mid 20th century. The house is still extant and occupied.
(House) Holly Park - In 1786 Wilson describes Holly Park as "the seat of Richard Taylor, it is very commodious and well-situated, having convenient offices and extensive demesnes". Lewis writes that Holly Park was the ancient residence of the Taylor family "now the property of Sir Aubrey de Vere". However Griffith's Valuation records Richard Taylor holding Holly Park in the early 1850s in fee. It was valued at £36. In 1894, Slater referred to it as the seat of George Taylor and in 1906 George Taylor held 277 acres of untenanted land and a mansion house valued at £34 at Currahchase North. Sold by the Taylors in 1939. Feheney writes that the son of Tom Clarke, one of the leaders executed in 1916, bought Holly Park from the Land Commission in the 1940s. The home of John Philip Cohane in the 1970s who had restored the house after a fire. It is still extant.
(House) Fanningstown Castle - An 18th century house which was the home of the Jackson family. Henry Lee is recorded as resident at Fannings-town in 1814. This house was demolished and a battlemented building was erected in the bawn of the old medieval castle by Hamilton L. Jackson in the 1850s and offered for sale in 1860. Bought by David Vandeleur Roche of nearby Carass in the 1860s. Occupied by James Fitzgerald Bannatyne in 1906 who held the mansion house valued at £31+ and 359 acres of untenated land. The castle now provides self catering accommodation and can be hired as a venue for functions such as weddings. http://www.fanningstowncastle.com/index.htm
(House) Dromore Castle - In 1868 the building of Dromore Castle began. It was an elaborate country retreat for the 3rd Earl of Limerick designed by Edward William Godwin. In 1906 this mansion house was valued at £75.10 shillings. The 4th Earl of Limerick did not visit Ireland very much and the castle was sold in 1939. In 1944 the Irish Tourist Association surveyor refers to the castle as the property of Mr M.McMahon, a timber merchant of Limerick, who bought the property in 1941 for a reputed £8,000. By the mid 20th century it had fallen into disrepair and the roof was taken off. Plans to develop the site and to demolish the ruin are current issues discusssed in the local and national press.
(House) Velvetstown - Seat of the Crofts family for over 3 centuries, Velvex-town was occupied by Thomas Crofts in 1814, by T. Lucas Crofts in 1837 and by the Reverend William Crofts in the early 1850s. The Reverend William held the house and 708 acres from Penrose Fitzgerald and the buildings were valued at £21. Hajba writes that the original house was replaced by an elaborate Italianate mansion in the late 1870s but when this burnt down in 1895 they moved back into their old home. She also writes that Velvetstown is one of the few North Cork houses still occupied by the family that built it.
(House) Firville - Leet lists a Robert McCarthy residing at a house called Fir-ville, Macroom in 1814. Lewis refers to Firville the newly erected mansion of Philip Harding. Henry Harding was the occupier in the early 1850s holding the property from N.D. Murphy. It was valued at £19.10 shillings. The representatives of Henry Harding still owned Firville in the 1870s. Firville passed to the Barry family through the marriage of Ellen Harding daughter of Henry Harding and Thomas Barry, son of Michael Barry of Elm Park, Farran, county Cork, land agent to Sir Riggs Falkiner.
(House) Carhue/Carhoo - A Coppinger family home, occupied by John Rye Coppinger in 1814 and 1837 and by Henry J. Coppinger in the early 1850s. Henry J. Coppinger held the property in fee and it was valued at £18. The sale rental of 1856 states that the mansion house had recently been repaired and that Henry T. Coppinger was tenant under the Court of Chancery. A lithograph of the house and demesne is included. Burkes (1904) records George Colthurst (born 1811) of Carhue House. John Good was residing in this house in the mid 1870s. In 1894 Slater refers to it as the seat of John H. Colthurst. Carhoo House is still extant.
(House) Rockville - At the time of Griffith's Valuation occupied by Michael Mockler and held from the representatives of Matthew Hendly, the buildings were valued at £26. The Mocklers advertised the sale of their interest in July 1851 and July 1853. The sale rental records the lease of Rockville by Ferguson Hendley to the Reverend James Mockler for 3 lives in July 1841 and that £2,000 had been spent on the house. Caroline Bourke occupied a mansion house with 37 acres in the townland of Licklash in 1906. It was valued at £60. In the 1870s Michael Bourke of Lecklash owned 37 acres. This house later became a summer home of Sir Oswald Mosley. Also known as Isleclash House.
(House) Careysville - Careysville Castle, originally known as Ballymacpatrick Castle, was the seat of the Carey family from the late 17th century. In 1750 Careysville was occupied by John Carey and Peter Carey was resident in 1814. In 1837 Lewis refers to “the handsome modern mansion built on the site of Careysville castle” by E.K. Carey. Valued at £50 in the mid 19th century the Careys held this property in fee. Inherited by the Montgomerys of Killee and sold by them to the Duke of Devonshire in the mid 20th century, it is now in use as a fishing lodge offering luxury accommodation, see http://www.irelandflyfishing.com/houses/careysville_house.
(House) Ballymore House - The Hare family, Earls of Listowel, also held land in the townland of Ballymore in the 19th century. In 1814 the proprietor of Ballymore was the Honourable Mr Hare. In 1837 J.H. Bennett was resident at Ballymore House. This house appears to have been in the possession of the Honourable Robert Hare at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was held from Joseph H. Bennett and valued at £15+. Robert Hare was a younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Listowel and married in 1840 Louisa French of Marino. Their son Robert Dillon lived at Ballymore. In 1906 John C. Bennett is given as the occupier and the mansion house was valued at £65. Bence Jones writes that post 1950 owners include the O'Donovans and Hecketts.
(Estate) Fenton - The Fenton family held land in and around Easky throughtout the 19th century. Various family members acted as agents for owners who travelled elsewhere. McTernan notes that the Sligo family were descended from a family of the same name in county Wicklow. In 1836 George Fenton was acting as agent for William whose address is given as "Lakes of Killarney" in the OS Field Name Books! Later members of the family entered the medical profession and travelled extensively including to Australia. In 1906 Thomas G. Fenton, M.D., is recorded as the occupier of property at Castletown, including a mansion house.
(Estate) Jones (Streedagh) - The Jones family were granted lands previously in the possession of O'Connor Sligo. It is thought the founder of the family was Sir Roger Jones. His grandson, Thomas, built Streedagh House c.1724. This branch of the Jones family also held land in county Leitrim, as the representatives of Michael Jones are listed as the owners of 1928 acres in 1876. Ormsby Jones of Mount Edward is listed as a Magistrate for county Sligo in 1889. In 1906 Richard Jones is recorded as the owner of over 250 acres of untenanted land at Streedagh townland, barony of Carbury, including a mansion house. The Congested Districts Board subsequently acquired over 600 acres of this estate.
(Estate) Soden - In the 17th century granting of lands in Sligo, the Earl of Strafford received large grants of land in Ahamlish. The town and castle of grange together with 300 acres was granted to Thomas Soden. Census of Elphin indicates that there were 6 Soden households in the area by 1749. Land was also held on long leases from the Palmerston estate. The Sodens seem to have acquired lands previously belonging to an O'Hart estate. Thomas Soden of Grange is alledged to have lived in three centuries, 1592-1713! Thomas Soden of Moneygold was Provost of Sligo from 1785-1818. In 1906 Maj. Gerard Eccles is recorded as the occupier of the property at Moneygold, including a mansion house.
(Estate) Fenton (Dromore) - Various branches of the Fenton family held estates in the Barony of Tireragh, County Sligo. This branch was centered on the house at Dromore in the village now known as Dromore West. Information in the OS Name Books suggests the house was built c.1786 and purchased by Capt Fenton from Mr. Jones of Fortland, Easky. In June 1864 Thomas Fenton together with John Nesbitt Malleson offered for sale the mansion house and lands at Dromore in the Landed Estates Court. The property was sold to Dr. Alexander Henry for over £3600. In June 1865 James Fenton offered for sale lands at Clooneen, barony of Tireragh. These lands were bought by a Mr. McNamara for over £1500. The Fenton estate was acquired by William Lougheed in the later 19th century.
(Estate) Niddrie - Peter Niddrie, MD, rented the house at Carrowmacrory from Mrs. Esther Hillas in 1857. Grace Nedden (also recorded as Neddrie) is recorded as the owner of over 2000 acres in county Sligo in 1876. In 1906 the representatives of Grace Neddrie were still listed as occupiers of property at Comcuill townland, including a mansion house. Over 1600 acres of the estate had been offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in May 1874. In 1878 Peter Niddrie's daugher and heiress, Elizabeth, married James Caulfield Beamish, son of Robert Delacour Beamish, of Ditchley, county Cork and their son William afterwards inherited Camcuill.
(Estate) Hillas - The Hillas family held property in several parishes in the Barony of Tireragh. They also held property in the City of Dublin. The family held over 7000 acres in County Sligo in 1876. According to documents in Sligo County Library the Hillas family initially rented and later purchased lands formerly owned by the D'Arcy family of Kiltulla, county Galway. The Hillas family were also connected to the Fenton families of Dromore and Easky. A duel was fought between John Fenton and Major Hillas over the rights to a shipwreak during which Major Hillas was killed. In 1906 Robert G. Hillas is recorded as the occupier of property at Carrowmacrory townland, barony of Tireragh, including a mansion house.
(Estate) Meredith - The Merediths acquired Cloonamahon and associated lands in the 18th century when a Meredith married one of the daughters and heiresses of Thomas Rutledge who had purchased the Cloonamahon estate which had been confiscated from the O'Harts. Thomas Rutledge's only son had been killed in a fall from a horse and is buried in Collooney graveyard. In June 1854 Thomas J. Meredith offered for sale lands in the baronies of Tirerrill, Leyny and Carbury, county Sligo in the Encumbered Estates court. The sale notice includes a description of Coney Island, in Sligo Bay. The estate later passed into the possession of the Tweedy family. Dr. Henry Tweedy is recorded as the occupier of property at Cloonamahon, including a mansion house, in 1906.
(Estate) Story - Descended from Bishop Joseph Story of Kilmore and his wife Sophia Gore, daughter of Sir William Gore of Castle Gore, county Mayo, the Story family were settled in county Cavan from the mid 18th century. Robert Story or Storey, was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Cloone, barony of Carrigallen, county Leitrim, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Joseph Story, whose address is given as Bingfield, was the owner of 1479 acres in Leitrim in 1876. Bingfield House, north east of Crossdoney, county Cavan is an early -mid 18th century three story mansion. [34 H374016]
(Estate) Athy - The Athy family were one of the original Tribes of Galway. Their estate was mainly centred around the parish of Oranmore through marriage into the Lynch family of Rinville. Phillip Lynch Athy is recorded as a resident proprietor in 1824. In 1855 Randal Athy was the owner of Rinville House, parish of Oranmore, barony of Dunkellin and was leasing another house at Cottage, parish of Ballynacourty to the Ryan family. Large portions of the estate were advertised for sale in the Encumbered estates court in 1857. In the 1870s the Athy family held over 1400 acres in county Galway. In 1906 Edmond J. Athy was the owner of over 650 acres of untenanted demesne land at Rinville West as well as the mansion there.
(Estate) Joyce (Rahasane) - The Joyce family of Rahasane were connected with the Joyces of Mervue and also of Corgary. They held lands in the parishes of Annaghdown and Lackagh, barony of Clare in the 1850s. Lands owned by Walter Joyce in the baronies of Kilconnell and Loughrea, county Galway, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in April 1858. Thomas Appleyard Joyce's mansion and demesne lands at Rahasane as well as lands in the barony of Clare and property in the town of Galway, amounting to over 2000 acres in total, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates court in June 1871. Parts of his estate had also been offered for sale in February 1870. Among the purchasers at this sale were Messers. Ashworth, Lattey and Newman as well as other lots purchased in trust. The Irish Times reported that the only lot sold at the June 1871 sale was the mansion house and demesne at Rahasane, bought by Lt. Joyce of the 54th Regiment, for over £16,000. T.A. Joyce is still recorded as the owner of over 600 acres in county Galway later in the 1870s.
(Estate) Daly (Castledaly) - This branch of the Dalys were descended from the Dalys of Killimer and also Dalysgrove, near Ahascragh, in east county Galway. The Cooleeney or Cooliney part of the estate was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in February 1863. Lands at Coorakurkia in the barony of Leitrim, also part of the Cooleeny estate were offered for sale in February 1855. The latter was held on lease by James Ulick Burke. In the 1870s James Daly is recorded as the proprietor of over 3800 acres in county Galway. In 1906 James D. Daly held about 100 acres of untenanted demesne land and a mansion house valued at £34 at Castledaly. The family were resident at Fort Faulkiner, Aughrim, county Wicklow, in the mid twentieth century.
(Estate) Butler (Crocknaraw) - In the early 1850s Thomas Crawford Butler leased land from Robert Graham of Ballynakill, county Galway. In 1862 he advertised for sale in the Landed Estates' Court an estate of more than 1000 acres at Crocknaraw, barony of Ballynahinch, county Galway, most of which he held in fee simple and presumably bought from the sale of the Graham estate in 1858. Charles Palmer Archer was tenant of 194 acres and had 'expended a large sum in building a mansion house' [at Garraunbaun]. The sale of Lot 2 of this estate was adjourned a number of times but other lots were purchased by Thomas Russell.
(Estate) Burke (Moyglass) - Under the Acts of Settlement John Burke was granted over 300 acres around Moyglass, barony of Leitrim and other lands in the barony of Dunkellin. In 1837 Lewis recorded Moyglass as the seat of J. Burke. Lands belonging to John Burke, at Moyglass, parish of Leitrim, barony of Leitrim, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in January 1851. Edward Burke was the occupier of a house at Clonco in the parish of Ballynakill, barony of Leitrim at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In 1906 John K. Burke held over 200 acres of untenanted land and the mansion house at Clonco.
(Estate) Maxwell (St. Cleran's) - Mrs. Anne Maxwell (nee Burke), whose address is given as St. Cleran's, Craughwell, is recorded as the owner of over 4000 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. In 1906 she was in possession of over 600 acres of untenanted land at St.Cleran's together with the mansion house valued at £46. She was the sister of John Hardiman Burke, the owner of this estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation. She had married firstly Maj. Francis de Vere, of Curragh Chase, county Limerick, who died in 1865. In 1873, she married Rev. Charleton Maxwell.
(Estate) O'Heney/Heney - At the time of Griffith's Valuation William Dwyer held a house valued at £1.6 shillings from James Heney in the townland of Brittas, Cashel, county Tipperary. James O'Heney was a solicitor in Cashel, county Tipperary, in the late 19th century. In the mid 1870s he owned 48 acres in county Tipperary while Denis Heney of Rockview, Cashel, owned 104 acres. James O'Heney died in 1891 (''The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal'' Vol 25). He bought the townland of Brittas from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1874 and in 1906 [his son] James O'Heney held untenanted lands in the townlands of Brittas and Caroll's Park. He also occupied a mansion house valued at £25.
(House) Kinlough House (Oakfield House) - Kinlough House was originally known as Oakfield House and was the seat of the Johnston family from the early eighteenth century. It was remodelled in the 1820s by Robert Johnston and renamed Kinlough House. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Kinlough House was occupied by William Johnston and was valued at £45. In 1906 James Johnston was the owner of the mansion house at Kinlough valued at £43 as well as 220 acres of untenanted demesne land. In 1943 the Irish Tourist Association Survey recorded that the house had been destroyed by fire some 20 years previously but that the gardens were still open to the public. Kinlough House is depicted in a ruined state in the Buildings of Ireland survey. Major new housing development is occuring on the site, adjacent to the walled garden.
(House) Ardtully House - Richard J.T. Orpen was leasing Ardtully House from John Croker at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £23 5s. In 1814 Leet records it as the seat of Richard O. Townsend while Lewis, in 1837 mentions Ardtully as "the ancient mansion of Richard Orpen Townsend". It was also the seat of the Orpen family in the 1770s and 1780s. Bary states that this property included an earlier castle, which was originally part of the McFineen McCarthy lands forfeited in the seventeenth century. It was granted by the Hollow Blade Company to the Conways but, later in the eighteenth century, the Orpens were occupying the house, subsequently replaced in the nineteenth century. Recorded, perhaps mistakenly, as the seat of R.H.M. Orpen and Sir. R.J.T Orpenm in 1894, in 1906 it was owned by Richard H.M. Orpen and valued at £40. The Scottish-baronial style house was burnt in 1921 but the ruins remain.
(House) Carhan House - Maurice O'Connell held several properties at Carhan Lower, at the time of Griffith's Valuation, including a mill, valued at £18, which he was leasing to Patrick Trant. In the 1830s, the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books record that the mills had been built by Messers Trant and Barry c.1828. There were two other houses, one valued at £18, leased to James Barry, MD, and the second, valued at £6, leased to Rev. John Healy. Carhan House is named on the 1st edition OS map as "in ruins". Lewis notes "Cashen" as the old mansion of the O'Connell family in 1837. In the 1830s, the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books describe Carhan House as "a rectangular building, having a kitchen built up to the rere, all two stories high. The walls of its ruins are standing but in a state of dilapidation". In 1814 Leet refers to one property in Carhan as the residence of James O'Connell and to a second as the address of Miles McSweeney.
(House) Kilpeacon - Lewis writes that the manor was granted to William King in the reign of James I and that "the late proprietor" had erected a handsome mansion which was now the "property and residence of Cripps Villiers". In his will dated 1704 William King refers to his niece Mary Villiers. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Book states that Kilpeacon House was the property of Edward Villiers, Dublin, and was occupied by Miss Deborah Cripps. Built in 1820 it was a large, commodious building of 2 stories. It was the residence of Edward C. Villiers at the time of Griffith's Valuation, held in fee and valued at £60. Bought by Major George Gavin in the early 1850s from the Villiers and the residence of his son Montiford W. Gavin in the early 20th century. The Irish Tourist Association surveyor writes in 1942 that this house was completed in 1799. The owner was Mrs O'Kelly, her husband having purchased the house in 1927 from the Gavins. This house is still extant and occupied.
(House) Caherconlish House - Lewis describes this house in the following terms "Near the town stands Cahirconlish House, a handsome modern residence, erected near the site of the old family mansion, by the proprietor, Major Wm Wilson." The Ordnance Survey Name Book dates this house to about 1789 and it was three storeys high. Wilson, writing in 1786, refers to a residence of Mr. Wilson at Caherconlish. A small drawing of the house is to be found on Map 16 H 32 (13) in the National Library of Ireland. This house was valued at £40 at the time of Griffith's Valuation and was held by Charles Monck Wilson in fee. Daniel Fitzgerald Gabbett, MP, was recorded as the owner in 1906, though he himself had died in 1898. At the time of the Irish Tourist Association survey 1942 Caherconlish House is described as a Creamery. The surveyor writes that a fine Adams ceiling in the house was destroyed by an accidental fire in 1925. Caherconlish is no longer extant.
(House) Boskill - Lewis records B. Friend residing at Baskill in 1837. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Book records two houses. Boskill House the original residence of the Frends dating back to the 17th century and located at the northern point of the townland. It was at the end of the 1830s a thatched house which had been converted into a stable. Boskill Lodge (marked on the first Ordnance Survey map as Boskill House) was built in 1800 by Captain Benjamin Frend, at a cost of about £600. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Benjamin Friend junior occupied this house which was valued at £18. In 1906 a mansion house in the townland of Templemichael valued at £30.15 shillings was the residence of Edith M. Minchin and Agnes E. Rose. The Frends and the Roses of Ardhu House were related. The Irish Tourist Association surveyor in 1942 records the burning of this house in the Civil War and that there was "no trace of the house now".
(House) Rockbarton - Also known as Mount Prospect, Fitzgerald describes Mount Prospect as the "magnificent seat and demesne of the present Chief Baron". Lewis describes Rockbarton as the "elegant mansion of Lord Guillamore". It was occupied by John Low at the time of Griffith's Valuation who held it from the Viscount. It was valued at £75. By 1906 the value of the house was reduced to £60 and it was then occupied by Lord Fermoy. The Irish Tourist Association surveyor records the sale of this house to Mr Barry in 1922. It remained in his possession until it was demolished in 1941 and the fittings sold to a Limerick builder. He writes that it was one of the "showplaces of Ireland" with a grand staircase of marble and that it had been renovated at a cost of £70,000 circa 1912 by the Honourable Nigel Baring who was married to a daughter of Lord Fermoy.The house is now a ruin.
(House) Carrigmore House (Kinneigh) - James Lysatt [Lysaght] held a property in fee here, valued at £46, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Bence Jones states that it was built in 1842 by James Lysaght on the site of an earlier house known as Connorville, which had been purchased by Lysaght from the Connor family.In 1837 Lewis had referred to tit it as "the deserted and dilapidated mansion of the O'Connors." In 1783 Taylor and Skinner had indicated Connorsville as a seat of the Connor family as had Wilson in 1786. An adjacent smaller house, known as Laurel Hill, was held by Adderley Bernard in 1851. Carrigmore House and 312 acres, the estate of James Lysaght, were advertised for sale in July 1853. A lithograph of the house is included in the sale rental. Lyons indicates that the estate was sold privately to James L. Holmes. Carrigmore and Laurel Hill were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in 1876, as part of the sale of the Holmes estate. Donnelly states that it was burnt in October 1920 during the War of Independence when it was the property of James H. Morton. The house is now derelict.
(House) Brittas Castle - The original castle was burnt circa 1820 (Bence Jones) when the owner was Henry Grace Langley. His nephew Major Henry Langley began to build a Medieval Revival castle to the design of William V. Morrison but died when only the gate tower was completed. The Irish Tourist Association surveyor wrote that it was to be a replica of Warwick Castle. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Name Books commented that Brittas Castle was "a modern unfurnished building on a most magnificent scale but in all probability it will never be finished"! In the mid 19th century Henry Langley held the castle valued at £30 from the Court of Chancery. The sale rental of December 1853 records Thomas Kirwan as the tenant of the castle and 464 acres for 7 years from 25 March 1851 pending the cause of Langley v Langley. From 1853 Brittas belonged to the Knox family who lived in a single storey house located behind the gate tower. This house was described as a mansion house in 1906, valued at £25 and occupied by Fitzroy Knox.
(House) Castle Biggs/Drominagh - The Smythe sale rental of July 1870 states that the original lease was from Godfrey Boate and Benjamin Friend to William Biggs dated 1711. Built by the Biggs family on the shore of Lough Derg this house was occupied by William L. Biggs in 1814 and by Dr W. Biggs in 1837. The Ordnance Survey Name Books, in 1840 refer to Castle Biggs as "a most commodious house". Edward Biggs was resident in the mid 19th century, holding the property from Sir John Power. The house was valued at £22. The sale rental of November 1853 describes this 3 storey mansion containing every necessity and a range of out offices. It was in the possession of Edward Biggs, the owner and was bought by Captain William Tuthill. William Tuthill sold the property to Frederick Smythe in 1859. It was for sale again in July 1870. At this time the Esmondes of county Wexford bought it from Frederick Smythe. In the early 1940s owned by Owen Esmonde but purchased by the Moss family in the 1940s.
(Estate) Gore Booth - The Gore Booth family were descended from Sir Francis Booth who was granted land at Ardtermon, barony of Carbury, county Sligo in the 17th Century. This had previously been part of the O'Hart estate. He married Anne Parke, heiress of Robert Parke of Parke's Castle, county Leitrim. The family became Gore Booths as a result of an advantagous marriage between Nathaniel Gore and Letitia Booth in 1711. Sir Francis great grandson, Booth Gore, built a new house at Lisadell in the mid 18th century. In 1906 Sir Jocelyn Gore Booth is recorded as the occupier of property, including a mansion house, at Lissadell townland, barony of Carbury. After 1909 and again in 1915 offers were accepted from the Congested Districts Board on over 2500 acres of the estate.
(Estate) McDermott (Coolavin) - The McDermotts were the original hereditary owners of the lands in Coolavin, hence the family title McDermott of Coolavin. In the 17th century they lost much of their lands but always maintained a presence in the area. In the early 19th century they held a house and demesne at Coolavin. McParlan recorded "Doctor McDermott, son and heir of the late Prince of Coolavin, ........resides in the family mansion". At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Charles McDermott was the lessor of most of the townland of Monasteraden, barony of Coolavin and was also leasing lands in the barony of Tirerill. Portion of this property, including the house and demesne at Coolavin, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in 1852. Lands in the barony of Tirerrill were offered for sale in March 1860. In the 1870s Charles J. McDermott owned almost 800 acres in county Sligo while Roderick and Thomas McDermott owned another 800.
(Estate) Ormsby (Castle Dargan) - The Ormsby family held property at Castledargan since the end of the 17th century. William Ormsby is recorded as a gentleman farmer in the Census of Elphin in 1749. Houses, fields and premises in the town of Sligo, part of the estate of John Ormsby, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in June 1854. These premises were held under a lease renewable forever between Jeremiah Furey and William Ormsby, dated March 1797. Lands at Coolboy and Shrareagh, barony of Tirerrill, the property of John Ormsby of Castle Dargan, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in December 1855. In 1875 over 1900 acres of the Castle Dargan estate was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. In 1906 John Hosie is recorded as the occupier of the property at Castle Dargan, including mansion house.
(Estate) Godley - The Godley family held lands in the barony of Carrigallen, centred around the house at Killygar, sometimes spelt Killegar. Martin Morris writes that the estate was originally bought in 1734 by Richard Morgan, a successful Dublin merchant and land agent. His daughter Mary married the Reverend Dr William Godley of Mullabrack, Co Armagh and their grandson John Godley built the present Killygar House which was completed in 1813. John Godley is also recorded as the lessor of several townlands in the parish of Drumreilly, barony of Mohill. John's eldest son John Robert Godley (1814-1861) founded the province of Canterbury, New Zealand and his son John Arthur Godley (1847-1932) was a distinguished diplomat who was raised to the peerage as Baron Kilbracken of Killegar in 1909. Members of the Godley family were High Sheriffs of Leitrim in 1818 and 1843. In the late 1870s Archibald Godley owned over 2000 acres in county Leitrim as well as lands in county Louth. Denis Godley, with an address in Dublin, owned over 1000 acres in county Leitrim. In 1906 Archibald Godley held over 200 acres of untenanted land at Killygar as well as the mansion house valued at £43. The 3rd Baron Kilbracken, journalist, author and adventurer, lived at Killygar House until his death in August 2006. For more information on the Godleys and Killygar see http://homepage.eircom.net/~carrigallen/killegar.html
(Estate) Blake (Ballinafad) - In the early 17th century a younger son of Blake of Ballyglunin, county Galway, acquired lands in county Mayo, including some from O'Kelly of Dunamona. A later generation received letters patent, dated 30 June 1681, of 1,189 acres of the Ballinafad estate, which they retained for a further 2 centuries. Although Ballinafad was in the parish of Drum, most of the estate was in the parish of Rosslee, barony of Carra. In 1876 two family members held almost 3,500 acres in county Mayo. The estate at Cloghballymore, parish of Killeenavarra, barony of Dunkellin, county Galway, came into the possession of the Blakes of Ballinafad in the early 19th century through the marriage of Anne Lynch and Maurice Blake. Llewellyn Blake is recorded as holding a mansion house and over 1000 acres of untenanted land there in 1906. Parts of the Ballinafad estate were sold to the Congested Districts' Board in June 1913 and June 1914. The Irish Tourist Association file refers to an 18th century map of the estate then in the college.
(Estate) Whyte (Newtown Manor) - 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.
(Estate) Rowley (Co Leitrim) - The Rowley family inherited the Campbell estate at Mountcampbell through the marriage, in 1766, of Clotworthy Rowley to Letitia, daughter and co-heiress of Samuel Campbell of Mount Campbell. The Rowley family made careers for themselves in the Royal Navy and were mostly absentee landlords. McParlan records that in 1802 William Rowley was a non-resident proprietor in county Leitrim. In 1835 Mount Campbell was let to the inspector of police, Major Warburton. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states, however, that Sir Josias Rowley died at his residence, Mount Campbell, in 1842, when the title became extinct. In the 1870s the Rowley estate amounted to over 2300 acres in county Leitrim. In 1906 William Rowley held over 200 acres of untenanted land and the mansion house at Mount Campbell. Members of the family were High Sheriffs of Leitrim in 1851 and again in 1899.
(Estate) Lawrence (Lawrencetown) - The Lawrence family are first recorded in east Galway in the late 16th century. A John Lawrence married a daughter of one of the O'Maddens and later acquired property at Ballymore. The Lawrence family were dispossessed of this property under the Cromwellians but were later granted Belview or Lissareaghan in 1677. In 1851 Walter Lawrence advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court approximately 4000 acres in the baronies of Dunmore, Clare and Longford, county Galway and 311 acres in the parish of Shrule, barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo. Some of the lands were not sold until 1852. Dominick O'Flaherty bought the Shrule portion. The Lawrences still owned about 2000 acres in county Galway in the 1870s and occupied the mansion into the twentieth century. By the 1920s most of the land had been sold to the tenants and the house was demolished. See http://www.lawrencetown.com/lawrences.htm for more on the Lawrences. Also see http://www.askaboutireland.ie/show_narrative_page.do?page_id=1070
(Estate) McDermott (Ramore/Rathmore) - James Anthony McDermott of Ramore married Mary Agnes Blake of Cregg Castle in the early 19th century and this may explain why the McDermotts held Cloghanower and Mountross in the parish of Killeany, barony of Clare, county Galway. Their 822 acres in the parish of Killeany was advertised for sale in 1856. James McDermott was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Killimorbologue, barony of Longford and Clontuskert, barony of Clonmacnowen, county Galway, in 1856. In 1873, Anthony Joseph MacDermott of Ramore married Liza, daughter and coheir of Patrick Crean Lynch of Clogher, county Mayo. Over 3,000 acres in county Mayo belonging to him and others was vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 13 Mar 1913. The Ramore estate amounted to over 3500 acres in the 1870s. In 1906 James McDermott owned about 250 acres of untenanted land and the mansion house at Rathmore, valued at £39.
(Estate) Begg - The Beggs were resident in the parish of Aughrim, barony and county of Roscommon in the mid 18th century and living at Beech Abbey by the end of the century. The estate of Margaret Begg, a minor, in the parish of Aughrim, barony and county of Roscommon, was adverted for sale in April 1851 along with the mansion house and demesne of Mount Dalton, barony of Rathconrath, county Westmeath. The county Roscommon lands appear to have been purchased by Thomas Babington. Oliver William Costello Begg of Mount Dalton appears in the list of subscribers to Samuel Lewis ''Topographical Dictionary of Ireland'' (1837). At the time of Griffith's Valuation Terroll and John Begg held the townland of Kye, parish of Clooncraff, barony of Roscommon. Kye was held on a lease dated 12 Oct 1785 from Patrick Dillon to James Begg and was advertised for sale in February 1854. Tyrrell Begg was the tenant. In the 1870s Tyrrell Begg and other Begg family members of Elphin owned 352 acres in county Roscommon.
(Estate) Arthur (Glenomera) - A family who moved from county Limerick to Ballyquin, county Clare when they purchased land from the Earl of Thomond at the end of the 17th century. They married with members of the O'Brien family of Dromoland and the Smith family of Cahirmoyle, county Limerick. Griffith's Valuation shows the main part of the Arthur estate was in the parishes of Killokennedy and O'Briensbridge, barony of Tulla Lower and in the parishes of Ruan and Killinaboy, barony of Inchiquin, but they also held land in other parishes Clondagad, Killone, Killaloe, Kiltenanlea and Feakle. In the 1860s and early 1870s John Brown and his son Robert L. Brown, acted as receivers for the estate of Thomas Arthur, "a lunatic". This estate was in the baronies of Tulla Upper and Lower and included the mansion house and demesne of Glenomera. In the 1870s Colonel Thomas Arthur of Manor House, Desborough, Market Harborough, Leicestershire owned 2,622 acres in county Clare and Francis Arthur of Dublin owned 10,534 acres in the same county.
(Estate) McAdam - The McAdams were a Scottish family. Philip McAdam bought the Blackwater estate in the parish of St Patricks, barony of Bunratty Lower, county Clare from James Craven in 1684. The McAdams first lived in Churchland House and later in Blackwater House. In the mid 19th century they also held some land in the parish of O’Briensbridge, barony of Tulla Lower. Members of the McAdam family were living in Sussex by the late 19th century and following military careers, although they still owned Blackwater House in 1910. In the 1870s Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Stannard McAdam of Borde Hill House, Sussex and of Blackwater House owned 1,747 acres in county Clare. The McAdams still owned their mansion house at Blackwater in 1906.
(Estate) Nevins (Mount Shannon) - Various newspaper reports of the death of Thomas Nevins record that he was the purchaser of Mount Shannon. This transaction took place in the 1890s. Thomas Nevins was born in county Mayo in 1844, emigrated to East Orange, New Jersey in the United States of America and made a fortune as a railway and tram contractor and from other enterprises. He was survived by his wife, his son Thomas A. Nevins and two daughters (''New York Times'' 22 Aug 1902, ''Limerick Chronicle'' 21 Aug 1902). The Nevins are recorded as owning 867 acres in county Limerick in 1905 see http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1905/aug/08/nevin-estate-county-limerick . In 1906 Esther Nevins was occupying the mansion house at Mountshannon which was valued at £170. She also held untenanted land at Ballyvollane, Carrowkeel and Lisnagry. The Irish Tourist Association survey of 1942 records the burial of Thomas Nevins, his wife and daughter in three massive coffins in the former ice house.
(Estate) Neville (Co Kilkenny) - A family originally established in county Wexford and in county Kildare by the mid 17th century. By the late 18th century Garrett Neville was living at Marymount, county Kilkenny. In 1846 his grandson, Thomas Neville of Borrismore House (formerly Marymount), married Isabella Anne, daughter of Edward Thomas Villiers Tuthill of Rathgar Mansion, Dublin. In the 1870s Thomas Neville owned 210 acres in county Limerick, presumably acquired from the Tuthills, 392 acres in county Kildare and 710 acres in county Kilkenny. Garrett Neville's eldest son, Thomas of Annamount, county Kilkenny, married Rebecca, daughter and heiress of Ambrose Power. Thomas died in 1835 without heirs. Mrs Rebecca Neville held two townlands amounting to 730 acres in county Tipperary at the time of Griffith's Valuation. [John Neville, county surveyor, of Roden Place, Dundalk, owned 776 acres in county Tipperary and 102 acres in county Armagh, in the 1870s.]
(Estate) Sullivan (Bandon) - Thomas Kingston Sullivan of The Retreat, Bandon, owned over 3000 acres in county Cork and 2000 acres in county Kerry in the 1870s. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, his Cork estates included property in the parish of Lislee, barony of Ibane & Barryroe and in the parish of Kinneigh, barony of East Carbery. He appears to have been engaged in the legal profession. In October 1862 he was the petitioner in the sale of houses in the town of Bandon, the property of Robert Edwards, an insolvent. Fee simple lands belonging to Thomas Kingston Sullivan at Kilbane, barony of East Muskerry and at Gurtnahacty, barony of West Muskery amounting to 1,355 acres and at Gurteensawney, barony of East Carbery (West) held in fee farm were advertised for sale in June 1867 by his trustee Richard Topham. The sale also included the mansion and demesne of Fort Robert.
(Estate) Sarsfield (County Cork) - The Sarsfield family were established in Cork since medieval times. Many of them served as High Sherriffs and Mayors of Cork from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Early generations of the family lived at Sarsfield's Court and Kilmallock. In 1837 Lewis refers to Sarsfield Court as an ancient mansion. In the 18th century Dominick Sarsfield married Catherine Ronayne and his son Thomas Sarsfield married Mary Ronayne. The Sarsfields inherited Doughcloyne and other property from the Ronaynes. Thomas and Mary's grandson Thomas Ronayne Sarsfield married in 1820 and at the time of Griffith's Valuation held land in the parishes of Clonmel, barony of Barrymore, Carrigaline and St Finbarrs, barony of Cork and Kilmoney, barony of Kerrycurrihy, county Cork. In the 1870s his son Dominick R. Sarsfield of Doughcloyne owned 1,518 acres in county Cork. Bingham Sarsfield owned over 250 acres at the same time.
(Estate) Ryder (Ballinterry) - The Reverend Thomas Ryder, rector of Kilfinan and Darragh, county Limerick, married Martha Badham of Rockfield, county Cork and one of their grandsons John Ryder married Margaret daughter of the Reverend Joshua Browne of Castlelyons House. John died in 1820. His eldest son was the Reverend Joshua Ryder of Castlelyons House who married Lucinda daughter of Michael Wood of Cork. His youngest son the Reverend William married the daughter of the Reverend William Ross of Ballinterry Glebe. The Reverend William Ryder held a townland in the parish of Castlelyons, barony of Barrymore, county Cork, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s Miss Isabella D. Ryder of Ballinterry owned 599 acres in county Cork. This property passed to the Wood family. In 1906 the representatives of Andrew Wood Ryder occupied a mansion house valued at £30 in the townland of Kill St Anne South in the electoral division of Castlelyons.
(Estate) Eustace - At the time of Griffith's Valuation Charles Stannard Eustace held land in the parishes of Castletownroche, barony of Fermoy and Gortroe, barony of Barrymore, county Cork. In 1800 the Reverend Charles Eustace of Robertstown, county Kildare married Cassandra, daughter and co heir of John Stannard of Ballydoyle, county Cork and the Eustaces came to possess their county Cork estate by this marriage. In the 1870s Charles Stannard Eustace of London owned 995 acres in county Cork, 1,406 acres in county Kildare, 1,036 acres in county Westmeath and 501 acres in King's County (Offaly). General Henry Eustace was a brother of the Reverend Charles Eustace. The General married Henrietta daughter of Peter Count Dalton. The representatives of Henry Eustace held 440 acres of untenanted land and the mansion house Grenanstown in 1906.
(Estate) Petre - In the mid 19th century Richard F. Power held two townlands in the parish of Aghnameadle, barony of Upper Ormond, county Tipperary. Mrs Mary Anastasia Petre, formerly Power, was the wife of Henry Petre of Berkeley Square, Middlesex. In April 1857 her estate of over 2,400 acres, comprised of the mansion house and part of the lands of Annameddle [Aghnameadle], barony of Upper Ormond, Ballycapple, barony of Lower Ormond, Castletown, barony of Eliogarty, premises in the town of Nenagh, county Tipperary and Kilpadder and Ballinabartla, barony of Duhallow, county Cork, were advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court. Her county Cork lands were held under fee farm grants dated 1853 Samuel Spaight Reeves to Mary Petre. Ballycapple was advertised for sale again in February 1858. The Honourable Mary Petre still owned the 730 acres at Castletown in the mid 1870s. They were advertised for sale again in June 1877.
(Estate) Newport - The Newport family were influential in both the commerical and political life of the city of Waterford during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Morris states that Simon Newport, a merchant of south Tipperary, moved to Waterford in the early eighteenth century and married into the Barker family. His grandson, Sir John Newport, of Newpark, was created a Baronet in 1789. He served as an MP for the City of Waterford. After his death his trustees offered over 1000 acres for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in 18555 and 1856. The sale included the mansion house at Newpark. In 1870, Charles Newport, resident in Belgium, offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court lands at Rathculiheen, barony of Kilculiheen, county Waterford. The sale notice indicates that he had purchased this property in the Encumbered Estates Court in 1857.
(Estate) Willington (Killoskehane) - The Willingtons were settled at Killoshehane, county Tipperary, by the mid 18th century. James Willington married Mary Carden and died in 1750. They had three sons, John of Killoskehane, James of Newhouse and Jonathan of Castlewillington. In 1815 John Willington of Killoskehane married Sarah, daughter of Christopher Ormsby, a member of the Ormsby family of Ballinamore, county Mayo. They had three sons who had all died unmarried by 1863. In the mid 19th century the estate was located in the parishes of Killoskehan, barony of Ikerrin and Ballymackey, Kilkeary and Latteragh, barony of Upper Ormond. The Willington estate at Killoskehane, amounting to 2,541 acres in the baronies of Ikerrin and Eliogarty, was advertised for sale in November 1853 and again in June 1854. Five lots were again advertised in March 1855. The mansion house, demesne and plantations (1,305 acres) at Killoskehane was advertised again in May 1864. Edward D. Martin held over 1,500 acres at Killoskehane in 1906.
(Estate) Spunner - The sale of the lands of Faddenbeg, parish of Loughkeen, barony of Lower Ormond, county Tipperary, refer to a lease of Faddenbeg to Robert Spunner dated 1778 and his will dated 1793. In the mid 19th century Thomas and Henry Spunner held land in the parishes of Nenagh, Loughkeen, Lorrha, barony of Lower Ormond, Killavinoge and Borrisnafarney, barony of Ikerrin, county Tipperary. Part of the lands of Ballymcegan, including an old dilapidated mansion, the estate (389 acres) of Thomas Spunner was advertised for sale in November 1856. Charles Rolleston Spunner of Glasshouse, Shinrone, King's County (Offaly), who assumed the name of Spunner under the will of Thomas Spunner in 1867, owned 1,177 acres in King's County in the 1870s while at the same time Thomas White Spunner of Miltown House, Shinrone, owned 1,207 acres in King's County and Mrs Elizabeth Spunner of Clyduff, Roscrea owned 1,111 acres in King's County.
(Estate) Fitzgibbon (Castlegrace) - The Fitzgibbon family, known as the White Knight, were established in county Tipperary, from the 15th century. By the early 17th century they also held land in county Limerick at Ballynahinch and Ballyscaddan. David Fitzgibbon was Governor of Ardfinnan Castle in the mid 17th century. At the end of the 17th century his son Maurice Fitzgibbon, a Jacobite, was settled at Clashmore. He married Ellen McCraith in 1693 and they had 2 sons, Gibbon of Clashmore, [county ?] and Philip of Castlegrace, parish of Tullaghorton, barony of Iffa and Offa West. Philip married Aphra, daughter and co heiress of Robert Sargent of Castle Grace. The Fitzgibbons continued to hold Castlegrace throughout the 18th century. In the 19th century the family resided at Crohana, Stoneyford, county Kilkenny. The ruins of Castlegrace are marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map. The Grubbs built a mansion house closeby in the mid 19th century.
(Estate) Deane - Matthew Deane came to Ireland in the mid 17th century and purchased lands in county Cork. He was made a baronet in 1709. In 1775 his descendant, Sir Robert Tilson Deane, (created Baron Muskerry in 1781), married Anne, sole heir to her grandfather John Fitzmaurice of Springfield Castle, county Limerick. John Fitzmaurice was a nephew of Thomas Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry, ancestor of the Marquis of Lansdowne. Robert Tilson Fitzmaurice Deane, grandson of Robert and Anne, married Elizabeth Geraldine Grogan Morgan of Johnstown Castle, county Wexford and assumed the additional name of Morgan. Their son, Hamilton Matthew Tilson Fitzmaurice Deane-Morgan, succeeded his grandfather as 4th Baron Muskerry in 1868. In his entry for the parish of Mourneabbey, Lewis refers to the "late Lord Muskerry" (1st Baron) having built "a splendid mansion in the vicinity on which he is said to have expended upwards of £30,000; but before it was inhabited it was taken down and the materials sold''. Beaufort also refers to this mansion which had been dismantled by 1788. It was at Dromore, parish of Kilshannig. Griffith's Valuation records Lord Muskerry holding land in the parishes of Killagholehane, Killeedy and Mahoonagh, barony of Glenquin and Dromcolleher, barony of Connello Upper, county Limerick and in the barony of Orrery and Kilmore, county Cork including parishes of Shandrum and Kilbolane. In July 1864 lands in the baronies of Glenquin, Smallcounty, county Limerick and West Muskerry, county Cork and Maguinihy, county Kerry, the estate of Lord Muskerry and Maria Chinnery were advertised for sale. Maria Chinnery would appear to be the daughter of Sir Broderick Chinnery, baronet, of county Cork. These lands were purchased by Messers. Evans, Nagle and Prin. In the 1870s Lord Muskerry owned 3,161 acres in county Limerick, 742 acres in county Tipperary, 912 acres in county Wexford and 28 acres in county Clare. The rental of Barnagurrane, 242 acres in the barony of Connello Upper, the estate of Eugene Guilford Finnerty, was advertised for sale in November 1881. Lord Muskerry was the tenant and this property adjoined his Springfield Castle demesne. His wife, Elizabeth Grogan Deane Morgan, was the owner of over 350 acres in county Waterford in the 1870s as well as extensive estates in counties Kilkenny and Wexford.
(Estate) Phibbs (Seafield) - The Phibbs family acquired an estate in Kilmacowen in the late 18th century. The estate was based around Seafield House which was built by William Phibbs, c. 1798. A later house, also called Seafield, was built in the townland of Lisheen, nearby. The estate, which was held under fee-farm grant from the Merediths, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in January 1877. The family also owned a dower house at Coradoo, near Ballinafad, County Sligo as well as property in the barony of Boyle, county Roscommon. In the 1870s the Misses Phibbs, of Drumcormack, Boyle, held over 150 acres in Roscommon while William Phibbs was the owner of over 800 acres including lands in the parish of Kiltullagh, barony of Castlereagh. Earlier, in June 1852, William Phibbs had offered for sale over 300 acres of his Roscommon estate as well as over 2000 acres of an estate in county Westmeath, in the Encumbered Estates court. In 1867 oyster beds and houses in the city of Dublin, associated with the estate of Edward Joshua Cooper, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. In 1906 Catherine Phibbs is recorded as the occupier of property in the townland of Lisheenacooravan, barony of Carbury, including a mansion house. The Congested Districts Board acquired almost 1400 acres of the estate of Owen Phibbs in the early twentieth century.
(Estate) Phibbs (Tirerrill) - The Phibbs family owned several estates in the barony of Tirerril including that at Corradoo East. The family also held property in Ballysumaghan parish centred around Doonally. William and Thomas Phibbs offered the estate at Heathfield for sale in May 1854. Harloe Phibbs was leasing extensive property in the town of Ballysadare to Robert Culbertson at the time of Griffith;s Valuation. This property included mill buildings to the value of £300. In 1868 Agnes Culbertson, widow of Robert Culbertson, offered this mill complex, together with some houses and 34 acres, for sale in the Landed Estates Court. Harloe Phibbs owned over 700 acres in the 1870s while Maj. Richard Phibbs was the owner of over 550. In 1906 Thomas Randle Phibbs is recorded as the owner of over 300 acres of untenanted land at Ballynaboll, barony of Tirerrill, including a mansion house, probably the house known as Heathfield. At the same time William Phibbs held over 300 acres of untenanted land in the barony of Tirerrill including buildings valued at £11 at Knockbrack.
(Estate) Wynne - The Wynne family established themselves in Sligo in the later 17th century. They went on to become one of the dominant forces in political and economic life for the next two centuries. As well as estates in Sligo they held over 15,000 acres in county Leitrim. Owen Wynne served as High Sheriff of that county in 1724 and went on to become High Sheriff of Sligo later. McParlan gives a detailed description of Hazelwood in his account of Sligo in 1802. John Wynne was the lessor of several townlands in the parishes of Killasnet, barony of Rosclogher and Cloonlogher, barony of Dromahaire, county Leitrim, in 1856. Previously, in 1855, he had offered for sale lands at Garryduff, barony of Tireragh and property in the city of Dublin. John Wynne also served as High Sheriff of Leitrim, in 1834. The Wynne's Tireragh lands were held under fee-farm grant from John ffolliott and Edward Nicholson. Prpoerties which Owen Wynne offered for sale in the Land Judges' Court in 1881 in and around the town of Sligo included lands leased from the Wood Martin estate. In 1906 Owen Wynne is recorded as the occupier of Hazelwood Demesne including a mansion house.
(Estate) Parke - According to O'Rorke, the Parkes received land under the Cromwellian settlement and established themselves in Sligo from that time. Capt. Roger Parke built Newtown, now known as Parke's Castle, on the shores of Lough Gill. The family held land in many parts of county Sligo, including the baronies of Tireragh, Tirerrill and Carbury as well as in County Leitrim. Roger Parke was the lessor of several townlands in the parish of Killasnet, barony of Rosclogher in 1856. He is recorded as the owner of over 2100 acres in county Leitrim in the 1870s. In 1853 the estate of John Parke of Castlecar, county Leitrim was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. In the 1870s both Roger and Johnston Parke were the proprietors of over 700 acres each in county Sligo. They had a UK residence in the 19th century at Chiselhampton, Wallingford. In 1906 Roger K. Parke is recorded as the occupier of property at Doonally townland, barony of Carbury, including a mansion house. The Congested Districts Board later acquired over 500 acres of Benjamin Parke's estate.
(Estate) Perceval - The Perceval family succeeded to lands in Sligo in the mid 17th when George Perceval married Mary Crofton, heiress to the Templehouse estate. (c.1669). The property has been occupied by the family almost continuously since, except for a period in the mid 19th century when it was sold to the Hall-Dare estate but was later bought back. In 1906 the representatives of Alexander Perceval were recorded as the occupiers of property at Templehouse Demesne including a mansion house. The Congested Districts Board later acquired over 3200 acres of the estate. Temple House is now a guest house. See http://www.templehouse.ie/ Through a mid 18th century marriage with a member of the Carleton family the Percevals were also co owners of estates in counties Fermanagh and Tyrone. Philip Perceval of London is recorded as the owner of 987 acres in county Fermanagh, 429 acres in county Tyrone and 1,339 acres in county Tipperary in the 1870s. Alexander Percival held at least three townlands in the parish of Clonoulty, barony of Kilnamanagh Lower, county Tipperary, in the mid 19th century. http://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction__templehouse_papers_mic597.pdf
(Estate) Crofton (Sligo) - The Croftons acquired land in the 17th century from the McSweeneys which had previously been part of the O'Dowd lordship in Tireragh. The family seem to have had a house in the area since the 1630s.In addition Henry Crofton received lands in the parish of Achonry, barony of Leyny, which were confirmed under the Acts of Settlement. They appear as Craston in the Census of 1659. The present Longford House was built c. 1783 but was destroyed by fire in the early 19th century. It was partially rebuilt and is still extant. James Crofton converted to the Protestant faith in 1731 and inherited the family estates. The Croftons also had another house in Templeboy parish, Corkhill, which was usually leased. They also held land in the parishes of Cloonfinlough and Kiltrustan, barony and county of Roscommon in the mid 19th century. In 1906 Sir Malby Crofton is described as the occupier of property at Longford Demesne, including the mansion house. This branch of the Crofton family was connected with the Crofton family of Mote Park, County Roscommon. The family vault is in the old graveyard in Dromard.
(Estate) McCarrick/McCarrig - At the time of Griffith's Valuation various members of the McCarrick family held townlands in the parishes of Kilconduff and Killasser, barony of Gallen, county Mayo, previously parts of the estates of George Ruttledge of Togher and of the Reverend William Jackson. Roger McCarrig is listed as a purchaser of part of the Ruttledge estate on the sale rental of 24 June 1851. The McCarricks also purchased land in county Sligo. By the mid 1870s Roger McCarrick of Kilglass House, Enniscrone, county Sligo, owned 3453 acres in county Mayo and 868 in county Sligo while John McCarrick of Cloonbarry, county Sligo owned 567 acres in county Mayo and 443 in county Sligo. In 1906 Henry McCarrick was recorded as the occupier of property at both Kilglass, barony of Tireragh and Cloonbarry, Barony of Leyny, both including a mansion house. The Misses McCarrick sold 602 acres to the Congested Districts' Board on 28 July 1906, while H. and B. McCarrick sold 3,252 acres to the Board on 4 Mar 1915.
(Estate) Crichton - Sir Alexander Crichton of Seal Grove, Kent married Frances Dodwell in 1800. She was the heiress of Edward Dodwell of Carrowgarry and that estate passed to the Crichton family. Sir Alexander Crichton was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Kiltullagh, barony of Castlereagh, Kilbride, barony of Ballintober South, Cloonfinlough, Elphin and Kiltrustan, barony of Roscommon, county Roscommon at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Alexander Crichton is listed as the occupier of property in Tanrego West townland, barony of Tireragh, in 1906, including a mansion house. Henry Crichton owned over 180 acres of untenanted land and a house at Ballinvoher, barony of Corran, at the same time. 1,092 acres belonging to Mrs Crichton were conveyed to the Congested Districts Board in October 1906 and a further 1,400+ acres of the Crichton's Roscommon estate was vested in the Board on 19 Mar 1914. Offers from the Board on over 500 acres belonging to H.M.R Crichton, over 100 acres the property of Mrs. Crichton and 1600 acres owned by Alex Crichton in county Sligo were accepted in November 1913
(Estate) Tighe (The Heath) - Robert Tighe was a prosperous merchant of Ballinrobe, barony of Kilmainemore, county Mayo, in the mid 19th century who bought lands for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Robert Tighe held 3 townlands in the parish of Kilmainemore, barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo, previously part of the estate of Arthur Browne of Glencorrib, parish of Shrule and one townland in parish of Crossboyne, barony of Clanmorris, bought from the Blakes of Merlin Park. Robert Tighe held a townland in the parish of Templetogher, barony of Ballymoe, county Galway, in the mid 1850s. In 1863 he bought The Heath from the Blakes. His first wife was Catherine daughter of Thomas Kelly and their eldest son Thomas was Member of Parliament for county Mayo in 1874 and married in 1875 Marie Antionette Dolphin of Danesfort, county Galway. By 1876 members of the Tighe family owned more than 2,000 acres in county Mayo and 1,025 acres in county Galway. Part of the Tighe's county Mayo estate was sold to the Congested Districts' Board in May 1906. 593 acres belonging to Thomas Tighe in county Galway were vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 26 April 1907. Robert Dolphin Tighe is recorded as the owner of over 340 acres of untenanted demesne land and a mansion house valued at £15 at Lisduff, Loughrea, in 1906.
(Estate) Walsh (Mohill) - John Walsh was leasing property from Rev. Augustus Crofton in Mohill parish in the 1850s. He is also recorded as the lessor of a house valued at £12 in Clooncahir townland which was vacant at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The Walsh family "of Drumsna" are recorded as agents to the Boyle estate of Oliver Begg, of Mount Dalton, county Meath at the time of the first Ordnance Survey. In 1837 Hugh Walsh of Drumsna served as High Sheriff of Leitrim. In 1854 and again in 1861 the estate of Gerard Francis Walsh, a minor, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates' Court. It included a house in Drumsna as well as lands in the baronies of Ballintober and Boyle, county Roscommon, the barony of Tullyhunco, county Cavan and other parts of county Leitrim. The petitioners included members of the O'Beirne family. Belmont mansion and demesne, part of the town parks of Drumsna, with a fee farm rent on some land in the parish of Kilmore, barony of Ballintober North, county Roscommon, the estate of Gerald Francis Walsh, were advertised for sale in June 1883. Gerald F. Walsh owned 257 acres in county Roscommon and 95 acres in county Leitrim in the 1870s.
(Estate) Gregory - The Coole estate was purchased by Robert Gregory from the Martyns of Tullira in 1768 on his return from India and remained in the Gregory family until 1927. The Kinvara estate was purchased from the Frenches of Duras in 1769. In 1824 Richard Gregory is listed as a resident proprietor. Townlands in the parish of Kilcolgan are recorded as part of the Gregory estate in the 1830s. The agent for this estate was G. Crippage, Galway. A substantial portion of the Gregory estate was sold in the Encumbered Estates Court in the 1850s, including a townland in the parish and barony of Moycullen bought by James Henry Ryan and other substantial portions by Henry Comerford and Henry Hodgson. William Gregory was the owner of over 5000 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. In 1906 Walter R. Gregory held about 200 acres of untenanted demesne lands and a mansion house valued at £60 at Coole. An offer was accepted from the Congested Districts Board for over 3200 acres of tenanted land of the estate after 1909. In June 1927 the ''Tuam Herald'' reported that the Land Commission had taken over the estate of Lady Margaret Gregory at Coole.
(Estate) Lattey - A document in a Galway solicitors' collection records Arthur Pittar Lattey and Robert John Lattey, both of Calcutta, co partners in a jewellery and gold and silver smith business. Robert Lattey, a London lawyer, purchased the Butler of Cregg estate, in the Encumbered Estates court in 1849 and part of Lord Gort's estate in September 1854. Robert John Lattey, whose address is given as Creg Park island, county Galway, owned an estate of 3,469 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. It included lands in the parishes of Killursa and Kilcoona, barony of Clare, which he had purchased from Francis and Walter Butler of Cregg, near Gort, in 1851. Robert John Lattey was the eldest son of Joseph Senior Lattey of Dublin, who worked for the Revenue. R.J. Lattey lived in India for a time, returned to England where he lost money in the bank failures of the 1850s but was able to retain his Irish property. In 1906 Robert Thomas Lattey held an untenanted demesne of over 160 acres and the mansion house at Cregg. Over 1,700 acres of the Lattey estate in county Galway was vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 27 Jan 1916. A detailed family history is given at http://lattey.com/
(Estate) Bagot (Bagotstown, Ballyturin & Aghrane/Castlekelly) - This family were first established at Bagotstown, county Limerick in the 13th century. They later held land in counties Laois and Offaly. It was through a marriage with a member of the Cuff family that a junior branch of the Bagot family of county Offaly came to possess an estate in the barony of Ballymoe, county Galway. Catherine Cuff, a granddaughter of Thomas Cuff, a brother of James Cuff, Lord Tyrawley, married John Lloyd Bagot in 1775. Griffith's Valuation records Thomas Neville Bagot and his son John Lloyd Bagot owning townlands in the parishes of Drumatemple and Kilcroan. The Bagot estate was further expanded by the purchase of the Castlekelly estate in the barony of Killian. By the 1870s John Lloyd Bagot owned 6,900 acres in county Galway and 104 acres in county Roscommon, his brother Christopher Neville Bagot owned 12,396 acres in county Galway and another brother Bernard William Bagot of Carrownure, Lecarrow, owned 686 acres in county Roscommon. John Lloyd Bagot married Anna Georgina Kirwan of Ballyturin, parish of Kilbeacanty, barony of Kiltartan, county Galway. Their son John owned 1,072 acres in county Clare in the 1870s. By 1906 John Bagot held over 600 acres of untenanted demesne land in Ballyturin as well as the mansion house. 281 acres of the Bagot estate was vested in the Congested Districts' Board in February 1916.
(Estate) Lynch/Wilson Lynch (Renmore & Duras) - A Galway family who prospered in the 18th century as merchants and bankers. Patrick M. Lynch is recorded as the lessor of several townlands in the parish of Killinny, barony of Kiltartan, county Galway in 1855, formerly part of the de Basterot estate. He was also the owner of a house in the townland of Doorus Park. Patrick Lynch is also recorded as the proprietor of townlands in the parish of Duras. His agent was James Connor, of Newtown Lynch, Kinvarra. The Lynches also held Renmore on the outskirts of Galway city from the Governors of the Erasmus Smith Schools and lands in the parish of Annaghdown, barony of Clare. Patrick Lynch married Ellen Wilson and their son John inherited his uncle's estate at Belvoir, county Clare. The family name became Wilson-Lynch. The Wilson-Lynch estate amounted to over 5000 acres in the 1870s with a further estate of over 3000 acres in county Clare. In 1906 John Wilson Lynch is recorded as the owner of about 150 acres of untenanted demesne land in the Doorus Park area where the mansion was situated.
(Estate) Nugent (Pallas) - In 1677 Thomas Nugent was granted an estate of 3,250 acres in the baronies of Leitrim and Longford, county Galway, including Pallace. In 1824 Lord Riverston and Arthur Nugent of Flower Hill are described as resident proprietors in county Galway. Property at Pallas and Spring Garden were occupied by Anthony F. Nugent at the time of Griffith's Valuation. This branch of the Nugent family was related to the Earls of Westmeath and that title passed to them in the 1870s. As Earl of Westmeath, Anthony F. Nugent owned over 14,000 acres in county Galway in the 1870s as well as property in county Roscommon in the parish of Ogulla, barony of Roscommon. Michael Nugent, with an address in Brussels, owned over 900 acres at the same time. Following the 1903 Land Act the Nugent estate in the baronies of Leitrim and Longford was sold to the tenants. In 1906 the Hon. Richard A. Nugent held over 200 acres of untenanted demesne land at Rockfield, Greethill, Athenry as well as the mansion house there valued at £27. The Earl of Westmeath owned about 1200 acres of untenanted land at Pallas in 1906. 1,133 acres of the county Roscommon estate of Lord Westmeath was vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 14 Oct 1908. In 1912 the Earl of Westmeath accepted an offer on over 6000 acres of his Galway estate from the Congested Districts Board.
(Estate) Hall (Knockbrack) - The Halls were an English family who settled in the north of Ireland at Narrow Water, county Down, in the 17th century. The Knockbrack branch are descended from a younger son and appear to have begun their connection with county Galway in the late 18th century, when the Reverend Francis Hall became Rector of Aughrim. Family members pursued careers in the army and church. General Henry Hall bought about half of the Tiaquin estate of the Burkes, which was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court in October 1851. He built a house in the townland of Knockbrack, which he called Mairwarra, after a place in India, but by the late 19th century the house was called Knockbrack. The Hall estate was in the parish of Monivea, barony of Tiaquin, county Galway, and in the 1870s amounted to 4,139 acres in county Galway and 232 acres in county Fermanagh. Pádraig Lane records that Henry Hall also bought the Bodkin estate of 347 acres at Bingarra. In 1906 Henry T. Hall held over 1000 acres of untenanted land and the mansion house at Knockbrack. Deposits of Hall of Narrow Water papers in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland do not appear to relate to any property in Connacht.
(Estate) Creagh (Dangan) - This family descend from Pierse Creagh who was Mayor of Limerick in 1651 and died at Dangan, parish of Quin, barony of Bunratty Upper, county Clare, in 1670. In 1666 this Pierse Creagh was granted over 2,700 acres, mainly in the barony of Burren. His great grandson, another Pierse Creagh, married three times and was survived by three sons. The eldest, Robert Creagh of Dangan, was succeeded by his nephews, Richard, and then, Cornelius Creagh of Dangan, who owned over 6,000 acres in county Clare in the 1870s. Most of the Creagh estate was in the barony of Burren, parishes of Killeany and Kilmoon and in the parish of Quin, barony of Bunratty Upper, where they resided. Both Cornelius’s two sons died without successors and the estate passed to their sister Olivia who married Hugh MacNamara Mahon. They assumed the additional surname of Creagh in 1885. In 1906 Mrs McMahon Creagh and Mrs Butler Creagh held over 350 acres of untenanted land and a mansion house valued at £30.10 shillings at Dangan. Weir writes that the Dangan estate was sold in the 1920s and the house demolished in 1948. Lands in the parish of Kilmoon owned by John Fitzstephen Creagh were sold in the Landed Estates Court in June 1868. Some were purchased in trust for the owner by Mr. Lane while others were bought by Augustine Butler.
(Estate) Fitzgerald (Knight of Kerry) - According to Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, county Limerick, three of the cadet branches of the Fitzgerald of Desmond lordship were known as the White Knight, the Knight of Glin and the Knight of Kerry. These titles are anomalies and are more akin to Gaelic Chieftainships, demonstrating the Gaelicisation of this Norman sept. John Fitzgerald of Ennismore was granted estates under the Acts of Settlement in 1667. The Knight of Kerry, as the name suggests, held lands in county Kerry, in the barony of Iveragh in the south of the county and in the area around Listowel, in the north. The latter included several townlands in the parish of Finuge, barony of Clanmaurice. Over 5000 acres of Peter Fitzgerald, the Knight of Kerry, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court, in June 1853. The sale included the mansion house at Glanleam. In the 1870s, Peter Fitzgerald, 19th Knight of Kerry, owned over 5300 acres in county Kerry as well as over 2000 in county Carlow. Rev. Richard Fitzgerald, of Ballydonohoe, owned over 1300 acres in county Kerry in the 1870s. In the mid 19th century the Knight of Kerry owned an estate in county Limerick, located in the parishes of Lismakeery, barony of Connello Lower, Dunmoylan, Kilbradran and Robertstown, barony of Shanid. This estate of 1,305 acres was included in the sale of June 1853 and was sold by the 1870s. An offer was made by the Congested Districts Board on over 3200 acres of the Knight of Kerry's estates in county Kerry after 1909.
(Estate) O'Meagher/Meagher - The O'Meagher family were well established in county Tipperary by the 16th century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation John Meagher held land in three townlands in the parish of Mahoonagh, barony of Glenquin, county Limerick. At the same time John O'Meagher held land in the parish of Kilbragh and Mora, Stephen O'Meagher held land in the parishes of Knockgraffon and St Patricksrock and Robert Meagher held land in the parish of Cloneen, all in the barony of Middlethird, county Tipperary. Stephen O'Meagher also held land in the parishes of Clonbullogue and Killardry, barony of Clanwilliam. He was the son of Dennis O'Meagher and his wife, Helen Roche of Limerick. Helen's sister Anastasia was married to Edward O'Meagher of Marlhill. Sarah, daughter of Denis O'Meagher of Kilmoyler, married John Joseph Preston of Bellinter, Navan, county Meath in 1842 and their estate at Kilmoyler amounting to almost 600 acres including the mansion house of Kilmoyler was advertised for sale in April 1865. 231 acres of this estate was sold in the Landed Estates Court in January 1866. Patrick Ryan purchased it for over £2600. In July 1853 the estate of Stephen O'Meagher at Ballygorteen and Ballymorris, 792 acres in the barony of Clanwilliam, had been offered for sale.
(Estate) Watson (Garrykennedy) - The Watsons were settled in Garrykennedy, county Tipperary, from at least the mid 18th century. They appear to have inherited Garrykennedy from the Felthams as a Lieutenant Henry Feltham was, with others, granted the lands of Garrykennedy in the 1660s. The Watsons married members of the Feltham, Gason and Drew families. James Watson married Julia Blake and in November 1857 the Garrykennedy estate of Julia Watson or of Charles Blake, her trustee, or of Christopher Hume Lawder, assignee of James Watson, an insolvent, was advertised for sale. The estate amounted to 248 acres held in fee simple and included the town of Portroe and the demesne lands on which an old mansion had been removed by the "late tenant" to make room for a new one of which he had completed one tower. The sale rental includes a view of the Garry Kennedy demesne on the shore of the Shannon. It was bought by William Parker for £6,000. In June 1864 the estate of Carrol Watson called Brookwatson 147 acres held in fee farm was advertised for sale. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/g/n/Joan-F-Watson/PDFGENE4.pdf
(Estate) Armstrong (Chaffpool & Moyaliff) - These Armstrongs are a junior branch of the Armstrong family of Mount Heaton, county Offaly and descend from Reverend William Carew Armstrong of Moyaliff, county Tipperary, Chancellor of Cashel. In 1789 he married Katherine, daughter of the Most Reverend William, 1st Lord Decies and Archbishop of Tuam. The estate at Chaffpool came into the possession of the Armstrong family in 1818 when their son, John Armstrong of Moyaliffe, county Tipperary, married Catherine, daughter and heiress of Thomas Somers of Chaffpool. The Pennefather sale rental of November 1851 gives details of the perpetual lease of Moyaliffe held by the Armstrongs from the Pennefathers. John and Catherine had seven sons all of whom had died without heirs by 1900. The estates reverted to the descendants of another son of the Chancellor and his wife. In 1876 the Armstrongs owned over 4000 acres in county Sligo. In 1906 the representatives of Edward Armstrong are recorded as the occupiers of property at Chaffpool including a mansion house. Captain Marcus Beresford Armstrong owned almost 1000 acres in Mullinabreena and Achonry, barony of Leyny. In July 1906 over 4000 acres of the Armstrong estate in county Sligo was vested in the Congested Districts Board. The Armstrong family vault is in Achonry cemetery. The Armstrongs also owned land in the parishes of Kilbride and Lackan, barony of Tirawley, county Mayo and in the parish of Tuoghcluggin, barony of Coonagh, county Limerick. In the mid 19th century the Armstrong's county Tipperary estate was centred in the parish of Upperchurch, barony of Kilnamanagh Upper but also contained land in the parishes of Moyaliff and Templebeg. In 1876 Henry Armstrong of Chaffpool owned 2222 acres in county Mayo. At the same time Edward Marcus Armstrong of Moyaliff owned 6,006 acres and his mother, Mrs Rose M. Armstrong of Southall, London, owned 1,264 acres in county Tipperary while his cousin, William Armstrong of Ballydavid, Waterford, owned 52 acres in county Waterford, 2,260 acres in county Tipperary and 413 acres in county Limerick. Another family member, Reverend Alfred Armstrong, owned 1,057 acres in county Tipperary. In the early 20th century Marcus Beresford Armstrong was in possession of Moyaliff and Chaffpool.
(Estate) Howley (Belleek Castle) - The Howley family appear in both Hussey de Burgh and the 1876 Landowners Survey as owners of land in Tireragh Barony, county Sligo. In addition there is evidence from both the OS Name Books and archival sources that they acted as agents for some of the larger estates in the area. The Howleys were also middlemen for a number of landlords in the baronies of Gallen and Tirawley, county Mayo, including the Kirkwoods and the Knox Gores. At the time of the Ordnance Survey in the 1830s they were living in a number of houses in the parish of Kilgarvan and at Belleek Castle, parish of Kilmoremoy, county Mayo.Piers and Mary White offered property for sale in Ardnaree, barony of Tireragh, in 1869. This was held on lease from the Howley estate. In 1871 over 1000 acres in county Sligo including Quignashee and 12 acres at Belleek Castle, county Mayo were advertised for sale in the Landed Estates' Court. Messers. Litterdale and Davidson purchased some of the lots in trust. Later, in 1876 and 1877, the properties at Quignamanger and Quignashee were offered for sale in the same court. The lease details seem to indicate that this had originally be Jones and Morgan land. In 1883 Edward John Howley offered for sale lands in the Rathglass area of the barony of Tireragh which he held on a long lease from the Digby estate. In 1906 John Howley is recorded as the owner of over 1400 acres of untenanted land in the barony of Tireragh including a mansion house. The Congested Districts Board later acquired over 1100 acres of the estate of Thomas J. Howley.
(Estate) Guinness - Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness of the famous brewing family began to purchase Connacht estates for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court from 1852. He bought the Ashford estate from Lord Oranmore and Browne, the Doon estate from Sir Richard O'Donel, the Cong estate from Alexander Lambert, part of the Rosshill estate from Lords Charlemont and Leitrim, parts of Connemara from Christopher St George and Kylemore from a banking consortium in 1859. Guinness acquired lands in county Kerry in the 1850s and was a principal lessor in the parish of Kilcrohane, barony of Dunkerron South at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He bought the Elwood estate of Strandhill, just across the river from Ashford, Cong, in 1871 and Lord Kilmaine sold him Inishdoorus, islands on Lough Corrib and lands in the barony of Ross, part of Nymphsfield in 1875. William Burke of Lisloughry was his agent. Arthur Guinness (1840-1915) was granted the title Baron Ardilaun in 1880. In the 1870s Arthur Guinnes owned 19,944 acres in county Galway, 3,747 acres in county Mayo and smaller acreages in counties Wicklow and Dublin. In 1906 Lord Ardilaun's estate held over 1700 acres of untenanted demesne land at Moyode, Loughrea as well as the mansion house at Moyode. By March 1916 final offers had been accepted from the Congested Districts' Board for over 2000 acres of the Guinness estate in county Mayo and for almost 28,000 acres in county Galway. The Board paid £50,000 for the Galway acreage. An offer had also been accepted for the purchase of the Aran Islands by the Board. The Guinness and St Lawrence families had inherited the Aran Islands from the Digbys through the Barfoots. The Guinness family retained Ashford Castle and the surrounding woods until 1939 when the property was sold to the Irish Government.
(Estate) Forster (Blake Forster) - The Forster family were of English origin who first acquired property in Galway in the 1640s. The progenitor of the family in county Galway was Francis Forster who was the son of Thomas Forster of Hunsdon, Hertfordshire. He obtained the Clooneene/Ashfield property by Royal grant from Charles II dated 18 Aug 1677 and chose to live there from then on. Francis married Mary O'Donnellan, daughter of Sir James O'Donnellan. The family also had houses at Rathorpe and later at Fiddaun as well as in county Clare in the parishes of Kilfenora and Drumcreehy. Francis Forster, who inherited the estate in 1752, married Anastasia Blake of Menlough and the family became known as Blake-Forster. The estate at Ashfield passed from the Blake Forster family in the 1830s. The Abbeyknockmoy estate situated in the baronies of Tiaquin and Athenry, county Galway, also belonged to the Blake Forsters. Samuel Lewis writing in the 1830s refers to a grant of Abbeyknockmoy by James I to Valentine Blake in 1629. This estate of almost 4,000 acres was offered for sale in Oct 1851. A newspaper cutting with the rental in the National Archives records the purchase of the unsold portions of the estate by Dominick Donnellan and Richard C. McNevin, a relative and agent to the Blake Forsters. By the time of Griffith's Valuation, a few years later, Donnellan and McNevin's purchases were in the possession of Martin J. Blake of Ballyglunin and James Thorngate. In the 1870s Captain Francis Blake Forster owned 3,593 acres in county Galway and 1,308 acres in county Clare, while Robert Blake Forster of Corofin, county Clare, owned 572 acres in county Galway. In 1906 Marcella Blake Forster owned over 250 acres of untenanted land and a mansion house at Corr, in the barony of Longford. An offer from the Congested Districts Board on a small acreage owned by Miss M. L. Forster was accepted sometime after 1909. http://www.celticcousins.net/ireland/kilmacduagh.htm For McNevin and Blake Forster marriage see http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Clare/1813/MAY.html
(Estate) Persse (Roxborough & Moyode) - The Persse family first received grants of land in counties Galway and Roscommon in the 1670s. Some of this land had been de Burgo land and later a descendent of the Persses acquired the estate at Moyode. Lands at Moyode and Castleboy had been granted to Sir William Scawen in 1703. The Persses settled initially at Spring Garden. Afterewards they purchased Roxborough where some of the family were living by the early 18th century. Robert Persse of Roxborough established estates at Castleboy and Moyode for his sons Parsons and Burton respectively. R. Persse of Castleboy is recorded as the proprietor of townlands in the parish of Isertkelly in the 1830s. D. Persse of Roxborough is recorded as proprietor of townlands in the parishes of Isertkelly and Kilchreest in the 1830s. Burton Persse is recorded as the proprietor of lands in the parish of Kilconieron at the same time. Dudley Persse held extensive lands in the parishes of Kilchreest, barony of Dunkellin, and Killinan, barony of Loughrea, in the 1850s. Burton Persse, Sen. Tallyho Lodge, Burton Persse, Jun. Persse Lodge, Robert Persse, Roxborough, Robert Parsons Persse, Castleboy and Henry Persse, Persse Park, were all resident proprietors in 1824. The estate at Spring Garden in the parish of Tynagh, barony of Leitrim, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in July 1850. In 1855, however, Burton Persse was still recorded as the lessor of over 700 acres in the parish of Tynagh, barony of Longford. In the 1870s the Persses owned over 18,00 acres in county Galway and over 1,300 acres in county Roscommon. In May 1876 almost 2000 acres in the baronies of Kiltartan and Leitrim, county Galway, the property of the Blair and Persse families, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates court. In 1906 William Arthur Persse owned a mansion house and almost 500 acres of untenanted demesne land at Laherdaun. At the same time Capt. A Persse owned about 1000 acres of untenanted lands and Roxborough House, valued at £70.
(Estate) Concanon - The Concannons were formerly Gaelic chiefs in the Kilkerrin area of north east Galway. The lands of Carrownacregg were granted to Sisby O'Concannon by patent dated 21 Mar 1678. Waterloo replaced Carrownacregg as the main family residence in the early 19th century. In 1824 Edmund Concannon, of Waterloo Lodge, is recorded as a resident proprietor in county Galway. He married Jane, daughter of John Blake of Belmont and his wife Sarah Cuff, sister of Baron Tyrawley. Blake Foster records that they had six sons, the eldest,Henry, was a barrister and married Countess Maria Aurora Arabella de Luicia. The third son, Edmond, married Kate Parsons and they had a son, Edmond John. James Blake Concannon of Esker was the fourth son. Over 3000 acres owned by Edmond John Concannon and Edward Thomas Beytagh, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in 1851. Much of the land was in the baronies of Clare and Dunkellin, county Galway and some of it was on perpetual lease from the Clanricarde estate. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Concannons held land in the parish of Killoscobe, barony of Tiaquin, some of which was leased from Walter Joyce of Corgary and also in the parish of Grange, barony of Loughrea. Henry Concannon sold Carrownacregg West, including a mansion 'out of repair', to James Browne in 1851. Three persons named Concannon with addresses at Tuam, Dunmore and Castleblakeney, owned small acreages in county Galway in the 1870s. Loughnane, writing in 1975, gives an account of working for the Concannon family at Rockfield between 1910-1931.
(Estate) Dillon (Clonbrock) - The Dillons were a Norman family who initially received grants of land in Westmeath and who later acquired properties in neighbouring counties including Roscommon and Galway. Lord Clonbrock was listed as a resident proprietor in county Galway in 1824. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Lord Clonbrock was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Ahascragh, Fohanagh, Killalaghtan and Killosolan in the barony of Kilconnell and Killoran in the barony of Longford. In the 1870s the Clonbrock estate in county Galway amounted to over 28,000 acres. Lands, house and demesne at Cahir, barony of Clonmacnowen, owned by James Dillon, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in July 1854. In 1906 Lord Clonbrock held over 2000 acres of untenanted land and the mansion house at Clonbrock. The Dillon's county Limerick estate appears to have come into their possession through the marriage in 1776 of the first Baron with Letitia Greene of Old Abbey, county Limerick, the only child of John Greene. James Kelly was the agent for the county Limerick estate in the early 19th century. The county Limerick estate was situated in the baronies of Connello Lower and Shanid. The Clonbrock Papers contain a printed notice of the sale of lands held in fee by Lord Clonbrock amounting to about 2395 acres and the lands of Loughill and Coonagh held under the See of Limerick circa 600 acres, dated 19 Dec 1829 MS 35705 (5). Correspondence expressing interest in the purchase of the Dillon's county Limerick estate was received from David Roche of Carass, Robert Maunsell and Stephen Dickson who bought the property in 1831, see MS 35,727 (10).
(Estate) Holmes (Nenagh) - By the early 18th century the Holmes family were settled in counties Offaly and Tipperary. Daniel Grace writes that Peter Holmes of Cullen, county Offaly, bought the Johnstown estate of 540 acres from John Barry for £4,437 in 1728. His son, Robert Holmes of Johnstown, county Tipperary, married Elizabeth Malone of Ballynahown, county Offaly and had a son, Peter, who was Member of Parliament for Banagher, county Offaly in the 18th century. This Peter built the mansion house known as Petersfield. In 1765 Peter Holmes married Elizabeth Prittie, sister of the 1st Lord Dunalley. As they had no male heirs the property passed to a cousin also named Peter Holmes. George Holmes of Liscloony, county Offaly, was an uncle of Robert Holmes of Johnstown. His son, Gilbert Holmes, was father of Peter Holmes of Peterfield who married Henrietta Hamilton in 1796 (''The Monthly Magazine'' 1796) and of the Very Reverend Gilbert Holmes, Dean of Ardfert, who, in 1810, married Lydia Waller Saunderson and had six sons. The eldest was William Bassett Holmes. B.W. Holmes and the representatives of Peter Holmes held land mainly in the parishes of Nenagh and Killodiernan, in the mid 19th century. The lands of Nenagh North and South and the toll, customs, fairs and markets of the town, the estate of Mary Augusta Dundas (nee Holmes), John Hamilton Dundas and Peter Holmes, a minor, were advertised for sale in December 1856. Also the estate of Peterfield 985 acres belonging to the same persons in December 1865. Peter Holmes is described as deceased. Peterfield was bought by the Headechs. In the 1870s William Bassett Holmes or Bassett W. Holmes, with an address at St. David's, Nenagh, county Tipperary, is recorded as the owner of over 200 acres in county Galway, over 1000 acres in Tipperary and 900 acres in county Offaly (King's County).
(Estate) Crowe (Dromore) - The Crowe family were living at Nutfield, near Ennis, county Clare in the 1780s. Burke records that Thomas Crowe second son of Robert Crowe of Nutfield married a Miss Wainwright of Dublin and had a son Thomas Crowe of The Abbey, Ennis. He married Ellen Tymons and had six sons and four daughters. The eldest son Thomas Crowe born in 1803 became a barrister and lived at Dromore House, parish of Ruan, barony of Inchiquin which he owned in fee. In 1838 he married Isabella Hume of Humewood, county Wicklow. In the mid 19th century Thomas Crowe held land in seven baronies of county Clare but the main part of his estate was concentrated in the parishes of Ruan and Inagh, barony of Inchiquin and in the parishes of Kilfarboy, Killard and Kilmurry, barony of Ibrickan. In 1857 he bought over 2,000 acres of the estate of the Marquis of Thomond in the barony of Inchiquin. His youngest brother Wainwright Crowe lived at Cahircalla, parish of Drumcliff, barony of Islands. In the 1870s Thomas Crowe of Dromore owned 6,121 acres in county Clare and the representatives of his brother Wainwright Crowe owned a further 3,126 acres. By 1909 Wainwright F. Crowe had agreed to sell over 1,600 acres to the Congested Districts' Board. The mansion house of Dromore and almost 1,000 acres of untenanted land was still in the possession of the Crowes in 1906. Thomas Crowe's grandson, another Thomas Crowe, sold Dromore in 1936.
(Estate) Goold (Old Court) - The Golds/Goolds were an old family associated with the city of Cork. George Goold was established at Old Court near the city in the mid 18th century. He married Mary Catherine, eldest daughter of James Galway. Their second son, Francis Goold, was created a baronet in 1801 and was succeeded by his nephew George as 2nd Baronet in 1818. In 1802 George married Lady Charlotte Browne, daughter of the Earl of Kenmare. The Goold estate was first advertised for sale in November 1851. It was comprised of over 2,100 acres in county Cork, 2,300 acres in county Tipperary and 277 acres in county Limerick and included the head rent of a number of mansion houses in the Mallow locality of county Cork. The sale rental includes details relating to the bidding and to the purchasers. Murdock Green and Robert Potter purchased portions of the Cork estate while lands in Tipperary were purchased by John Adair. . At the time of Griffith's Valuation the county Tipperary estate was in the parishes of Loughmoe East and West, barony of Eliogarty and Clonbullogue, barony of Clanwilliam. In June 1874, over 650 acres owned by Sir Henry Valentine Goold in the barony of East Carbery, county Cork, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. Henry M. Goold held land at Gooldshill, parish of Mallow in the 1850s. Henry Michael Goold was a nephew of the first baronet. The estate of Henry Michael Francis Goold amounting to 7,686 acres in the baronies of Eliogarty (parishes of Loughmoe East and West), Ikerrin and Clanwilliam, county Tipperary and 826 acres in the baronies of Fermoy and Duhallow, including Goold's Hill were advertised for sale in August 1852. Members of the Goold family had connections with other county Cork localities and with the city of Limerick. George Goold of Aughrim owned 183 acres and Theobald Goold of Cork city owned 138 acres in the 1870s. In November 1877 the 155 acre estate of George Goold at Aughrim, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, was advertised for sale. It was held on a renewal lease from St John Galway to George Goold dated 3 July 1847.
(Estate) Ronayne (Cork & Waterford) - The Ronayne family were located in county Cork from at least the early 17th century. Philip Ronayne was prominent in Cork city at the end of the 17th century. Documents in the Sarsfield Papers document the Ronayne estate at Doughcloyne, Carrigaline, Rochestown, Great Island, Kinsale, Youghal and in other locations at the end of the 17th century and early 18th century. Some of their property passed by marriage to the Sarsfield family. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Patrick Ronayne held land in the parish of Clonmel, barony of Barrymore and Patrick Ronan held land in the parish of Macloneigh, barony of West Muskerry. In April 1861 the estate of Patrick Ronayne at Inshinisingane, barony of West Muskerry was advertised for sale. This estate amounted to 504 acres and was held on a lease to John Ronayne, as trustee for Thomas Browne, from Michael Cox dated 1800. In the 1870s Patrick Ronayne of Berry Hill, Queenstown, owned 219 acres and John Ronayne of Ardsallagh House, Youghal, owned 323 acres in county Cork. The estate of Robert Power Ronayne at Pike Park, county Cork and D'Loughtane, county Waterford, including the mansion house of D'Loughtane, were advertised for sale in June and October 1851. He had been among the principal lessors in the parishes of Kinsalebeg, barony of Decies-within-Drum and Kilrossanty, barony of Decies-without-Drum, , at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Robert P. Ronayne emigrated to Australia. Land at Ballycurriginny, barony of Imokilly, the estate of Thomas Ronayne, was advertised for sale in 1872. The original lease was from Anne Beecher of Cork city to Uniacke Ronayne. Sone of this property was sold, in trust, to John Weldon. The house Ronayne's Court was included in the sale of Edward Robinson's premises in Cork city and suburbs in August 1850. A small lithograph and ground plan of the house is included. see also http://bluett.com/readers_comments.html http://users.ameritech.net/trona/Notes.pdf
(Estate) O'Brien (Inchiquin Castle) - Murrough O'Brien, 6th Baron Inchiquin, was created 1st Earl of Inchiquin in 1654. An estate of almost 40,000 acres in county Clare, over 1000 acres in county Limerick and over 15,000 acres in county Cork, was granted to Morrough O'Brien, Earl of Inchiquin, in 1666 and 1667. In 1680 his son William received a further grant of 4,890 acres in county Clare. His great grandson, William O'Brien, 4th Earl married the 1st Countess of Orkney in 1720 and was succeeded by his son-in-law and nephew Murrough O'Brien who became Marquess of Thomond in 1800. The 1st Marquess married twice. His first wife was his first cousin Mary 2nd Countess of Orkney by whom he left a daughter Mary and his second wife was Mary Palmer, a niece of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He was succeeded by his nephew William, 2nd Marquess. The 2nd Marquess had no sons so the title devolved on his brother James, 3rd Marquess in 1846. Following the death of the 3rd Marquess in 1855 without male heirs the Marquessate of Thomond and the Earldom of Inchiquin became extinct and in 1862 the title Baron of Inchiquin passed to Sir Lucius O'Brien, 5th Baronet of Dromoland. In 1857 the trustees of the will of James, 3rd Marquess of Thomond, sold the Earl's estate consisting of over 40,000 acres in the baronies of Burren (mainly in the parish of Carran), Corcomroe (parish of Clooney) and Inchiquin (mainly in the parishes of Kilkeedy, Ruan and Killinaboy), county Clare. The barony of Inchiquin contained by far the largest portion. Houses on the estate in the first division including Rockvale and Rathorpe. Reid writes that Richard Darcy of New Forest, county Galway, purchased the largest acreage, some 2,782 acres in the parish of Kilkeedy, barony of Inchiquin. Other purchasers included the Right Honourable Francis Blackburn of Rathfarnham Castle, county Dublin, Thomas Crowe of Dromore and James O'Gorman of Buncraggy. In 1837 Inchiquin Castle and the mansion attached were described by Lewis as in a "greatly dilapidated condition". He writes that the Castle on the shore of Inchiquin Lake was for a long time the residence of the Marquess of Thomond. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Marquis also held a large estate in county Cork. He was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Kilmacdonogh, Aghada, Ballintemple, Cloyne, Corkbeg, Garranekinnefeake, Inch, Rostellan, barony of Imokilly, county Cork. His county Cork estate included the village of Ballymacooda. The county Cork estate, amounting to 8,833 acres, was advertised for sale by the trustees of his will in December 1857.
(Estate) Sadleir (Ballintemple & Shrone Hill) - John Sadleir of London settled at Ballintemple, county Tipperary, in the 1660s having a grant of lands in the barony of Eliogarty under the Acts of Settlement. He married Mary Clements of London. This branch of the Sadleir family descend from their third son, Clement Sadleir of Ballintemple. In 1805 Clement Sadleir of Shrone Hill married Joanna Scully and they had four sons, William of Shrone Hill, James, a director of the Tipperary Bank, John, director of the Tipperary Bank (committed suicide in 1856) and Clement. At the time of Griffith's Valuation members of the Sadlier family held lands in the parishes of Oola and Templebredon, barony of Coonagh, and Galbally, barony of Coshlea, county Limerick. In July 1857 the mansion house and demesne of Coolnamuck, county Waterford and lands in the baronies of Middlethird, county Tipperary and Coonagh, county Limerick, the estate of James Sadlier, were advertised for sale. George McDowell, official manager of the Tipperary Bank was the petitioner. A lithograph of Coolnamuck House is included in the sale rental. Another sale was advertised in June 1861, George McDowell petitioner. Property owned by C.W. Sadlier in the town of Caher was sold in the Landed Estates Court in March 1862. The lots were purchased in trust for the Countess of Glengall. Part of Coolnamuck East and West, and Carrickbeg, county Waterford and Figlash, county Tipperary, in total 1,508 acres, the estate of Clement William Sadlier was advertised for sale in July 1865. Over 1,000 acres belonging to the banking consortium of John William Burmester, Farmery John Law and James Sadlier in the barony of Coshlea, county Limerick, were advertised for sale in November 1857. An estate of 925 acres in the barony of Condons and Clangibbon, county Cork, belonging to the same banking consortium, was also advertised in June 1860 and 443 acres at Shanakill, barony of Ikerrin, county Tipperary in July 1861. This county Cork estate had been purchased from the sale of the Kingston estate in 1855. James Sadlier of Tipperary owned 549 acres in county Limerick in the 1870s. John Sadlier bought the Cloonmore estate of 8619 acres in the parish of Kilbeagh, barony of Costello, county Mayo, from the Phillips family in the Encumbered Estates' Court in May 1853. The estate was sold again in the Landed Estates' Court in 1860 following the suicide of John Sadlier and the collapse of his banking and business interests. John Sadleir also bought portions of the estate of the Earl of Glengall at Cahir in 1853. These portions were for sale again in 1857. In the mid 19th century various members of the Sadleir family held land in parishes in the barony of Clanwilliam, county Tipperary.

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