Comyn (Kilconnell)
Burke's ''Landed Gentry of Ireland'' states that Andrew Comyn of Ryefield, county Roscommon, married the sister and heiress of Lewis Ward, of Ballymacward and Ballinderry, county Galway in 1786. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Andrew Comyn was leasing a house valued at £16 in the townland of Ballinderry, barony of Kilconnell, from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In the 1870s the Comyn estate in county Galway amounted to over 1400 acres as well as 411 acres in county Roscommon. By March 1916 A.N. Comyn had accepted an offer from the Congested Districts' Board for over 700 acres of his estate. In 1958 the Comyn family were residing at Westwood, Mallow, county Cork.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballinderry (Comyn) | Ballinderry | Kilconnell | Ballinasloe | Kilconnell 8 | Kilconnell | Galway |
OSI Ref: M734303
OS Sheet: 86 Discovery map: 47 |
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| Ryefield | Ryefield/Bunnateggal | Creeve | Carrick-on-Shannon | Creeve 48 | Frenchpark | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: M871913
OS Sheet: 16 Discovery map: 33 |
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Ballinasloe Union, 69.
- 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] : 93.
- 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: 151.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 45
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol. I, 433. Vol. II, 69.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 294 (Galway), 315 (Roscommon)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 307.
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Carrick-on-Shannon Union, 49.
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 344.
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Roscommon: Vol. I, 323.
- SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxii, 61