Estate: Hodson/Hutson/Hudson

Associated Families

• Hutson
• Hodson

Description

A family descended from Bishop John Hodson of Elphin and closely connected to the Hodson family of Hollybrook, county Wicklow, baronets. In the 1830s the gentleman's seat at Tooloobaun is recorded as the property of Mr. Hutson. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, John R. Hudson was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Kilconickny, barony of Athenry. In November 1870 over 200 acres at Tooloobane, barony of Athenry, the property of Henry Hodson, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates court. The Irish Times reported that this property was sold to Lord Ashtown for £4,500. Over 1000 acres belonging to this estate, located in the barony of Kilconnell, were offered for sale at the same time. It would appear that the Johnston family, who had leased large sections of the Kilconnell estate, purchased some of it at this time. O'Gorman notes that Johnson held a lease for three lives of Hodson property in the 1850s and acquired the entire estate in the 1870s.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Tooloobaun House (H727) At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Henry Hudson was leasing this house, then valued at almost £4, from John R. Hudson/Hodson. It is not shown on the later 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s.	Tooloobauntemple	Kilconickny	Loughrea	Kilconierin 122	Athenry	Galway	Lat/Lon: 53.24235 -8.60671 OSI Ref: M595215 Discovery map #46. OS Sheet #97.
Cloonatleva (H1127) Samuel Johnston was leasing a property valued at almost £5 at Cloonatleva Lower, barony of Kilconnell, from the Hodson estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The original building is not shown on the later 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s. Modern farm buildings occupy the site now.	Cloonatleva Lower	Fohenagh	Mountbellew	Annagh 143	Kilconnell	Galway	Lat/Lon: 53.37972 -8.42831 OSI Ref: M715367 Discovery map #46. OS Sheet #73.
Cloonatleva Mill (H1547) James Tyrrell was leasing a house and mill, valued at £6, together with land, at Cloonatleva, barony of Kilconnell, from the Hodson estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The building is described as "disused" on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s.	Cloonatleva Lower	Fohanagh	Mountbellew	Annagh 143	Kilconnell	Galway	Lat/Lon: 53.38060 -8.43433 OSI Ref: M711368 Discovery map #46. OS Sheet #73.
Fohenagh (H1567) Sir Henry Grattan Bellew dates this house from the 1830s. In 1906 Norah Johnston was the owner of buildings valued at £10 at Fohenagh as well as over 500 acres of untenanted land. Various members of the Johnston family had held lands in the area at the time of Griffith's Valuation mostly leased from the Hodson estate. Buildings still remain at this site.	Fohenagh	Fohenagh	Mountbellew	Annagh	Kilconnell	Galway	Lat/Lon: 53.39413 -8.41793 OSI Ref: M722383 Discovery map #47. OS Sheet #60.

Archival sources

• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Hodson, 4 November 1870, Vol 99, MRGS 39/047, (microfilm copy in NUIG)

Contemporary printed sources

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1850-1858. : Mountbellew Union, 7 & 8.
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1850-1858. : Loughrea Union, 13.

Modern printed sources

• Irish Times: Landed Estates Court Sale reports, 5 November 1870, p.3.
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: 705
• O'GORMAN, Tony. A History of Fohenagh. Fohenagh, county Galway: Fohenagh Community Council, 200? : 48-49

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