Estate: Peyton (Loughscur)

Associated Families

• Peyton (Loughscur)

Description

Richard Reynolds Peyton of Loughscur owned over 2500 acres in county Leitrim in the 1870s. He was High Sheriff for Leitrim in 1879.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Loughscur (H468) Loughscur was originally a seat of the Reynolds family but later passed into the ownership of the Peyton family through marriage. In 1894 Slater refers to it as the seat of James Reynolds Peyton. However, this may refer instead to the Peyton property at Laheen.	Loughscur	Kiltubrid	Carrick-on-Shannon	Keshcarrigan 32	Leitrim	Leitrim	Lat/Lon: 54.02115 -7.95422 OSI Ref: H030080 Discovery map #33. OS Sheet #24.

Archival sources

Contemporary printed sources

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• 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. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 366
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 217.
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 305
• SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) : xxx, 71 (Loughscur)

Modern printed sources

• HARRISON, A (compiler). A roll of all gentlemen....High Sheriffs, MPs & other officers of county Leitrim, 1600-1909. Carrick-on-Shannon: printed by P. Brennan, 1910. : 14.

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