Nugent (Pallas)

In 1677 Thomas Nugent was granted an estate of 3,250 acres in the baronies of Leitrim and Longford, county Galway, including Pallace. In 1824 Lord Riverston and Arthur Nugent of Flower Hill are described as resident proprietors in county Galway. Property at Pallas and Spring Garden were occupied by Anthony F. Nugent at the time of Griffith's Valuation. This branch of the Nugent family was related to the Earls of Westmeath and that title passed to them in the 1870s. As Earl of Westmeath, Anthony F. Nugent owned over 14,000 acres in county Galway in the 1870s as well as property in county Roscommon in the parish of Ogulla, barony of Roscommon. Michael Nugent, with an address in Brussels, owned over 900 acres at the same time. Following the 1903 Land Act the Nugent estate in the baronies of Leitrim and Longford was sold to the tenants. In 1906 the Hon. Richard A. Nugent held over 200 acres of untenanted demesne land at Rockfield, Greethill, Athenry as well as the mansion house there valued at £27. The Earl of Westmeath owned about 1200 acres of untenanted land at Pallas in 1906. 1,133 acres of the county Roscommon estate of Lord Westmeath was vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 14 Oct 1908. In 1912 the Earl of Westmeath accepted an offer on over 6000 acres of his Galway estate from the Congested Districts Board.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Pallas	Pallas	Tynagh	Portumna	Pallas 182	Leitrim	Galway	OSI Ref: M759084 OS Sheet: 117 Discovery map: 53
Spring Garden	Spring Garden	Tynagh	Portumna	Tynagh 184	Leitrim	Galway	OSI Ref: M749104 OS Sheet: 117 Discovery map: 53
Flower Hill	Bouluskeagh or Flowerhill	Tynagh	Portumna	Pallas 182	Longford	Galway	OSI Ref: M796096 OS Sheet: 107 Discovery map: 53
Ballynagar/Ballinagar	Ballynagar	Ballynakill	Loughrea	Ballynagar 135	Leitrim	Galway	OSI Ref: M715041 OS Sheet: 125 Discovery map: 52
Rockfield House	Rockfield	Killeeneen	Loughrea	Greethill 114	Dunkellin	Galway	OSI Ref: M495240 OS Sheet: 96 Discovery map: 46
Nutgrove	Nutgrove or Feebrack	Tynagh	Portumna	Pallas 182	Longford	Galway	OSI Ref: M772108 OS Sheet: 117 Discovery map: 53
Crannagh House	Crannagh	Tynagh	Portumna	Ballyglass	Leitrim	Galway	OSI Ref: M774059 OS Sheet: 126 Discovery map: 53

Archival sources

17th-18th century estate papers, Westmeath. ; Huntington Library, California
Ordnance Survey maps showing lands in non congested districts: Nugent estate, 817 acres in barony of Clare, Co Galway, 1906. 15.A.23(20); National Library of Ireland
Pallas. Photographs. 022/079.; Irish Architectural Archive
Flower Hill. Photographs. 024/074.; Irish Architectural Archive
Genealogical notes on Nugent of Pallas by Charles French Blake Foster, c 1865. MS 13,560; National Library of Ireland
Mrs Hannie Deposit (1932), papers relating to the Nugent family, Barons Riverston, with pedigree of Nugents of Donore, Co. Westmeath, with accounts of Donore estate, 1799-1825. C1770-87; D.8261-8310; M.605-6, 877, 885; T.2,733-5 ; National Archives of Ireland
Pedigree of Nugent of Bracklyn, Barons of Delvin, Earls of Westmeath, Nugent of Dunfert, Co. Kildare and Killasonna, Co. Longford, Barons Riverstown and of Pallas, Co. Galway, c.1180 - 1866. Genealogical Office: Ms.179, pp.278-82 ; National Library of Ireland
Deeds relating to the Nugent family. D. 18,522 et seq; National Archives of Ireland
Genealogical tree of Nugent family, compiled c.1850. Ms. 126 ; National Library of Ireland
Genealogical account of the families of Nugent, Earls of Westmeath, and of Dillon, Earls of Roscommon, 19th c., author unknown. Ms. 122 ; National Library of Ireland
A very extensive registration of the Pedigrees of the Family of Nugent including detailed and dated records of many of the most celebrated Branches deriving from Ives de Belesme, 993 1840. Genealogical Office: Ms.174, pp.27-59 ; National Library of Ireland
Large bound volume containing originals and copies of deeds, certificates and other documents relating to the family of Nugent (Lords Devlin and Earls of Westmeath) 16th - 19th c. (Appears to be "Munimenta Nugentiorum Manuscripta". Analecta Hibern. Vol. 20, p 132 wanting about 1/3 of original contents), 1591-1836. Ms. 16,520 ; National Library of Ireland
Papers relating to the Nugent family, Barons Riverston, with pedigree of Nugents of Donore, Co. Westmeath, with accounts of Donore estate, 1799-1825. Co. 1770-87; D.8261-8310; M.605-6, M.877, M.885; T.2,733-5; National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

DUTTON, Hely. ''Statistical and agricultural survey of the county of Galway''. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1824. : 412 & 413.
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Portumna Union,59 (Flowerhill), 82 (Spring Garden), 86 (Pallas), 88 (Crannagh)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 316
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] : 473.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 300.
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol I, 157,( Ballinagar)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol. II, 663. (Pallas & Flowerhill)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 324 (Rockfield), 336 (Pallas) 337 (Spring Garden).
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 235
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 45.
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: 148.
SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxvii & 97 (Flowerhill)
SLATER, Isaac. ''Commercial Directory of Ireland, 1846''. (London:Slater, 1846): p.134 (Portumna)

Modern printed sources

SPELLISSY, Séan. ''The History of Galway''. Limerick: Celtic Bookshop, 1999. : 368.
CONWELL, J. J. ''Lickmolassy by the Shannon''. Galway: Gortanumera Historical Society, 1998. : 205-211.
TYNAGH & DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY. ''Tynagh Millennium Review''. Tynagh, county Galway: Tynagh & District Development Society, 2000. : BETTS, Derek. The Earls of Westmeath. 40-65.
Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Record Office, Ireland: Vol 58, 21
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 230 (Pallas)
GLIN, Knight of, GRIFFIN, D. J. & ROBINSON, N.K (eds).'' Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland''. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive/Irish Georgian Society, 1989. : 78
MOSLEY, Charles (ed). ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage''. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999: II, 2980-2983
''Analecta Hibernica'': AINSWORTH, J.F Nugent Papers (from 1488), the property of Lady Nugent, Farrenconnell, Mountnugent, Co. Cavan, relating to the Nugent family, Barons of Delvin and Earls of Westmeath, and to lands in Cos. Westmeath, Meath and Cavan. XX (1958)
''Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'': DALTON, John P. The annual excursion of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society to Pallas Castle and Kilnalahan Abbey, 1908. V (1907-8), pp 213-226
MELVIN, Patrick. ''Estates and landed society in Galway''. (Dublin: Éamonn de Búrca, 2012). : 50-51