Bodkin (Carrowbeg & Thomastown)
This branch of the Bodkin family owned an estate of 2,900 acres granted to them by patent dated 29 May 1679, mainly in the baronies of Clare and Tiaquin, county Galway. Their history was marred by the murder of family members following a family feud in the early 1740s. Hyacinth Bodkin of Thomastown was the son of the survivor of this massacre. Parts of the original estate were acquired by the Bodkins of Castletown and in the 19th century the remainder of the Carrowbeg estate passed to the Lynches of Shannonbridge. http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/history/chapter77.html
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summerville/Thomastown | Summerville | Moylough | Mountbellew | Cooloo 153 | Tiaquin | Galway |
OSI Ref: M607 494
OS Sheet: 45 Discovery map: 46 |
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| Bingarra | Bingarra | Monivea | Loughrea | Graigabbey 113 | Tiaquin | Galway |
OSI Ref: M536311
OS Sheet: 84 Discovery map: 46 |
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| Carrowbeg House | Carrowbeg North | Belclare | Tuam | Claretuam 209 | Clare | Galway |
OSI Ref: M370 503
OS Sheet: 43 Discovery map: 39 |
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Archival sources
- Encumbered Estates Court (O'Brien) rentals. Bodkin, 22 November 1855, Vol 37 MRGS 39/017 (Microfilm copy at NUIG).; National Archives of Ireland
- 33 deeds re affairs of Bodkin & Clarke families, Co Galway, including the will of D.Hunt, 17th-19th centuries. D.10,266-10,298; National Library of Ireland
- Map of Cloonkeen, barony of Clare, by order of Mrs Hyacinth Bodkin of Thomastown, by Pat Redington, April 1813. 21.F.76(27); National Library of Ireland
- Kirwan Papers, include deed of conveyance of lands of Poolavalley & Gorthack, barony of Clare, Hyacinth Bodkin, late of Thomastown to John Kirwan of Castlehackett, 10 June 1807. LE8/3; James Hardiman Library, University of Galway
Contemporary printed sources
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 371 (Thomastown)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 239-240 & 257
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 328
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 297 (Lyons)
- HARDIMAN, James. ''The history of the town and county of the town of Galway''. Galway: The Connacht Tribune, revised edition 1985: 9-10
Modern printed sources
- MELVIN, Patrick. The Galway Tribes as Landowners and Gentry. In MORAN, Gerard (ed). ''Galway: History & Society''. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1996 : 319-374
- HUGHES, Michael John. ''History & Folklore of the Barony of Clare (Co Galway)''. The author, circa 1997: 26-27
- ''The Galway Reader'': O'CONNELL, Jarlath. The Bodkin Murders. IV No. 1 (Spring 1953), 123-127
- ''Jnl. of the County Kildare Archaeological Society'': FITZGERALD, Walter. The origins of the Bodkin family of county Galway. I (18911895), 204