Estate: Hall (Woodfield)

Associated Families

• Hall (Knockbrack)
• Hall (Woodfield)

Description

In 1831 the Reverend Savage Hall, second son of Savage Hall of Narrow Water, county Down, married Anne eldest daughter of William James O'Brien of Woodfield, parish of Kilseily, barony of Tulla Lower, county Clare. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Halls held 3 townlands in the parish. In the 1870s their second son Major William James Hall owned 4,718 acres in the county, 2,656 acres in county Armagh and 3,648 acres in county Down. He inherited the Narrow Water estate from his uncle.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Woodfield (H2031) Built c 1720s by the Bridgeman family and sold by them to the Reverend M. Locke in 1780. Wilson records it as his seat in 1786. The house was bought by William James O'Brien in 1802. He died in 1822 and the house was occupied by C. Walker in 1837. By the mid 19th century Thomas W. Butterfield was leasing it from the Reverend Savage Hall who had married Anne O'Brien. The buildings were valued at £22. It remained in the possession of the Hall family until at least the late 19th century, it was leased to the Bourke family. This house was advertised for sale in January 2009.	Woodfield	Kilseily	Limerick	Kilseily 108	Tulla Lower	Clare	Lat/Lon: 52.80877 -8.68371 OSI Ref: R539 733 Discovery map #58. OS Sheet #43.

Archival sources

• Public Record Office, Northern Ireland: Letters & papers of Hall family, Narrow Water, Co Down, including estate & other papers re the O’Brien family of Woodfield, Co Limerick & Rostrevor, Co Down, 1816-1847. Includes records re Maunsell estate at Curraghkyle, parish of Tomgraney, barony of Tulla Upper, on which the Halls received head rent, 1670-1934. D/2916

Contemporary printed sources

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1850-1858. : Limerick Union, 67 (Woodfield)
• 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: 199
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 207
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 110

Modern printed sources

• The Other Clare: O’BRIEN, Pat. Woodfield House. XII (1988), 44-45
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 238
• WEIR, Hugh W. L. Historical, Genealogical and Architectural notes on some Houses of Clare. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1999. : 281-282

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