Estate: Capell

Associated Families

• Capell (Earl of Essex)
• Neligan
• Martin (Cloonygormican)
• Battersby
• Fitzgerald (Cappagh)

Description

Griffith's Valuation and various rentals of lands for sale in the Land Courts of the second half of the 19th century show that the Earl of Essex owned land mainly in the parish of Roscommon but also in the parishes of Kilteevan and Kilbride, barony of Ballintober South (Kilbride-Martin sale July 1885) and in the parish of Oran, barony of Ballymoe, (Neligan sale Feb 1862), county Roscommon. In the 1870s the 6th Earl of Essex owned 2,906 acres in county Roscommon and smaller acreages in counties Meath, Wicklow and Dublin. 2,866 acres of tenanted land in county Roscommon belonging to the Earl of Essex was vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 25 Mar 1915.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Carrowroe Park (H1141) 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).	Carrowroe	Roscommon	Roscommon	Roscommon Rural 90	Ballintober South	Roscommon	Lat/Lon: 53.61940 -8.16020 OSI Ref: M894 633 Discovery map #40. OS Sheet #40.
Holywell (H1332) Originally a Gunning home that passed to the Blakeneys by marriage. In 1786 Wilson mentions it as the seat of Charles Blakeney. Occupied by C. W. Blakeney in 1837 and by Henry Smyth in the 1850s who held the property from John Goodall. The property is no longer extant.	Coolteige	Kilbride	Roscommon	Kilbride South 84	Ballintober South	Roscommon	Lat/Lon: 53.66793 -8.15736 OSI Ref: M896 687 Discovery map #40. OS Sheet #36.
Essex Lawn (H1333) Built after the First Ordnance Survey on part of the estate of the Earl of Essex, this house was occupied by John Kelly in the 1850s when it was valued at £18 10s. It is still extant.	Cloonybeirne	Roscommon	Roscommon	Roscommon Rural 90	Ballintober South	Roscommon	Lat/Lon: 53.63823 -8.18749 OSI Ref: M876654 Discovery map #40. OS Sheet #39.

Archival sources

• Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: Muniments of the Earl of Essex, the Capell family: title deeds of properties in the counties of Hertford, Dublin, Essex, Galway, Roscommon, etc., 1531-1951. DE/Cp
• Irish Architectural Archive: Carrowroe Park photos. 013/054
• National Archives of Ireland: Baker, Ringwood & Gordon, solicitors' collection, includes rental of estates in Cos Roscommon, Dublin & Meath of Earl of Essex & miscellaneous documents re rent charges, Co Roscommon, 20th century. Small Accs. Index 105, M.3816-3820
• National Library of Ireland: Volume of extracts from Irish history re O’Connor & Kelly families, collected by John Kelly of Essex Lawn, 1856. MS 19,723

Contemporary printed sources

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1850-1858. : Roscommon Union, 133 (Carrowroe) & 135 (Cloonybeirne)
• HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878: 149
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 55 & 99 (Holywell-Blakeney)
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Roscommon: Vol II, 81(Hollywell)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland, [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 59
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 315

Modern printed sources

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