Estate: Burke (Keeloges)

Associated Families

• Bermingham/Birmingham (Baron Athenry, Earl of Louth)
• Trotter (Kilquain)
• Burke (Keeloges)
• Burke (Glinsk)
• Dennis (Bermingham House)
• McCormack (Tuam)

Description

The Burkes of Keeloges were a junior branch of the Burkes of Glinsk, county Galway. William Burke of Keeloges married Margaret Coleman and had two sons. Their eldest son Richard of Keeloges had a son, William Burke of Knocknagur, part of Kilcreevanty, parish of Kilbennan, who held land in the parish of Claregalway, barony of Clare, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Thomas H. Burke, Under-secretary of State, murdered in the Phoenix Park in 1882, was a member of this family. Major William Burke, the second son of William and Margaret Burke, acquired part of the Bermingham and Quansbury estates by his marriage to Matilda, daughter of William St Lawrence, 2nd Earl of Howth and his first wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Bermingham, 1st Earl of Louth and his wife Mary Daly of Quansbury. The Quansbury and Bermingham estates of William Burke, in the baronies of Longford and Dunmore, county Galway, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in November 1850. This property included Quansbury Lodge, in the townland of Stowlin, barony of Longford. The Bermingham estate of William Burke was in the possession of Edward Blake, Matthew Carney and Patrick McCormack at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The Kirwans of Tuam were land agents for Sir Thomas Burke's estate at Kilcreevanty, Knocknagur, Knockdoe and Lehid in the first decade of the 20th century.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Quainsborough/Quansbury Lodge/Stowlin (H910) Originally a Daly house. In 1783 Taylor and Skinner and Wilson, in 1786, record Queensborough as a seat of the Earl of Louth. Slater refers to Quansborough Lodges as the seat of William B. Burke in 1846. Mentioned in the sale notice for portion of the St. George estate in November 1853. John P Watson was the occupier of a house valued at £13 in the townland of Stowlin, parish of Kilquain, barony of Longford, in 1856. In 1906 this house was owned by Kate Watson and was valued at £33. Buildings are still extant at site though may have been modernised. The Clonbrock Estate Papers, Collection List 54 in the National Library contain early 19th century rentals of the Quansbury estate. In many documents the name of this house is spelt Quansbury but on the Ordnance Survey maps it is spelt Quainsborough.	Stowlin	Kilquain	Portumna	Kilquain 175	Longford	Galway	Lat/Lon: 53.18349 -8.21692 OSI Ref: M855148 Discovery map #53. OS Sheet #107, 108.
Knocknagur (H1495) Sometimes spelt Cnocnagur.	Kilcreevanty	Kilbennan	Tuam	Kilbennan 219	Dunmore	Galway	Lat/Lon: 53.57029 -8.90124 OSI Ref: M403 582 Discovery map #39. OS Sheet #29.

Archival sources

• James Hardiman Library, National University of Ireland, Galway: Rental of the lands of William and Thomas H. Burke in the parish of Claregalway, barony of Clare, late 19th century. LE28
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates Court Rentals (O'Brien). Burke (Quansbury & Bermingham) estate. 5 November 1850. Vol. 3, MRGS 39/001. (Microfilm copy at NUIG)
• National Library of Ireland: Estate records of Denis J. Kirwan and Sons, land agents, Tuam, mid 19th - mid 20th centuries, includes ledger of rent receipts for the Quansbury & Bermingham estates 1855-1870, 1887-1905 & a Day Book 1877-1894 with other accounts. Kirwan of Tuam & Dalgin, Collection List 142
• National Library of Ireland: Estate records of Denis J. Kirwan and Sons, land agents, Tuam, mid 19th - mid 20th centuries, includes maps of Kilcreevanty, parish of Kilbennan 1882 & ledger of rent receipts for Sir Thomas Burke's Knocknagur estate 1906-1912 with other accounts. Kirwan of Tuam & Dalgin, Collection List 142

Contemporary printed sources

• LEGG, Marie Louise (ed). Census of Elphin 1749. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2004: 325
• SLATER, Isaac. Commercial Directory of Ireland, 1846. (London:Slater, 1846): p.122 (Eyrecourt)

Modern printed sources

• Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society: WADDELL, John. Knocknagur, Turoe and Local Enquiry. XL (1985-1986), 130-133
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: 202-203

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