Estate: Kelly (Churchboro)

Associated Families

• Kelly (Churchboro)
• McCreery

Description

A branch of the Kelly family was resident at Churchboro on the church lands of Killinvoy, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon, from at least the mid 18th century. Vera Hughes writes that Edmund Crofton Howe Kelly of Churchboro and by 1846 of Hollymount, county Roscommon, was one of the claimants to the estate of Edmund Kelly of Rookwood in the mid 1840s. In August 1852 Christopher Hume Lawder assignee of Edmund Crofton Kelly, an insolvent of Churchboro, was advertising the sale of 150 acres.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Churchboro (H1161) Occupied by Edward Kelly in 1814, E. Kelly in 1837 and by Patrick Grehan at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The house is no longer extant.	Killinvoy	Killinvoy	Roscommon	Scregg 92	Athlone	Roscommon	Lat/Lon: 53.55568 -8.08149 OSI Ref: M946 562 Discovery map #40. OS Sheet #42.

Archival sources

• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Lawder & Kelly, 2 Aug 1852, Vol 18, MRGS 39/008, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Map of Churchboro, Co Roscommon, 1830. M.544e

Contemporary printed sources

• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 105
• LEGG, Marie Louise (ed). Census of Elphin 1749. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2004: 187 (Churchborough)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 141
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Roscommon: II, 258
• TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 242
• WILSON, William. The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 126 (Churchborough)

Modern printed sources

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