Estate: Finucane (Ballymacooda)

Associated Families

• Westby
• Finucane (Ballymacooda)
• Finucane (Stamer Park)

Description

This branch of the Finucane family descend from Brian Finucane a younger son of Daniel Finucane and Helena O'Shaughnessy. Weir writes that Michael Finucane, a distiller, of Clonroad, Ennis, county Clare, purchased Ballymacooda for £6,000 in 1796. Michael was a brother of Daniel Finucane of Stamer Park, Ennis. He married Ellen O’Brien of Ennistymon and their son Michael Finucane of Ballymacooda House, near Ennis, county Clare, married Mary daughter of John and Mary Lysaght of Ballyvorda. Michael A. Finucane of Ballymacooda, parish of Kilmaley, barony of Islands, owned 565 acres in County Clare in the 1870s. His eldest son Michael married a Miss Skehan from Drewsborough, Scarriff.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ballymacooda (H1843) A house valued at £15 at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was in the possession of Michael Finucane who held it from Nicholas Westby. Passed into the ownership of the Commane family in the 20th century. [Grid reference is approximate]	Ballymacooda	Kilmaley	Ennis	Kilcloher 35	Islands	Clare	Lat/Lon: 52.80050 -9.07357 OSI Ref: R276 727 Discovery map #57. OS Sheet #41.

Archival sources

• National Archives of Ireland: Probate of will of Helena Finucane, Ballymacooda, 28 June 1898, will dated 14 Apr 1897. Small Private Accessions. 999/211(3)

Contemporary printed sources

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1850-1858. : Ennis Union, 116
• 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: 158
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 109

Modern printed sources

• Irish Ancestor: MOTT, George. Finucane of Co Clare. I (1969), 1-10 & 144
• WEIR, Hugh W. L. Historical, Genealogical and Architectural notes on some Houses of Clare. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1999. : 28

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