Estate: Fitzmaurice (Duagh)

Associated Families

• Fitzmaurice (Duagh)

Description

The estate of the representatives of Oliver Fitzmaurice amounted to over 2000 acres in county Kerry in the 1870s. Rev. George Fitzmaurice was the proprietor of over 500 acres at the same time. Oliver Fitzmaurice was the lessor of several townlands in the parish of Duagh at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Books indicate that Thomas O'Connor acted as agent for the Fitzmaurice estate.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Duagh House (H2064) Oliver Fitzmaurice was in possession of Duagh House at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £12 10s. Lewis mentions it as the seat of M. Fitzmaurice in 1837. Bary writes that this house was built by the Fitzmaurices in the eighteenth century and remained in their ownership until the end of the nineteenth, when the estate began to be sold to the tenants. The house was finally demolished in the 1960s.	Duagh	Duagh	Listowel	Duagh 119	Clanmaurice	Kerry	Lat/Lon: 52.41715 -9.37881 OSI Ref: R062304 Discovery map #64. OS Sheet #17.

Archival sources

• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of FitzMaurice of Cosfeale, county Kerry, c.1650-1770. Genealogical Office Ms.164, 116.
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Fitzmaurice of Duagh, c.1600-1690. Genealogical Office Ms.161, 70.

Contemporary printed sources

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1850-1858. : Clanmaurice Barony: 38 (Duagh)
• 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: 162
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.I, 521: Duagh Parish
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS County Kerry: Vol.II, 105 (Duagh Parish)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of names of proprietors and area and valuation of properties in counties in Ireland, held in fee or perpetuity or long leases at chief rents, 1876. (412) LXXX. 395: 75.
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 142

Modern printed sources

• The Genealogists' Magazine: Notes on the Fitzmaurice family of Duagh, county Kerry (from a lecture by W.U. Desmond Longford). XII, 11(1957),
• The Irish Genealogist: LONGFORD, W.U. Desmond. The Fitzmaurices of Duagh, county Kerry. III, 1(July1956), 25-35, 2 (July 1957), 64-66, 3(1958), 116.
• Bary, Valerie. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes of some Houses of Kerry Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1994. : 104 (Duagh)
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 435-438.

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