Phibbs (Seafield)

The Phibbs family acquired an estate in Kilmacowen in the late 18th century. The estate was based around Seafield House which was built by William Phibbs, c. 1798. A later house, also called Seafield, was built in the townland of Lisheen, nearby. The estate, which was held under fee-farm grant from the Merediths, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in January 1877. The family also owned a dower house at Coradoo, near Ballinafad, County Sligo as well as property in the barony of Boyle, county Roscommon. In the 1870s the Misses Phibbs, of Drumcormack, Boyle, held over 150 acres in Roscommon while William Phibbs was the owner of over 800 acres including lands in the parish of Kiltullagh, barony of Castlereagh. Earlier, in June 1852, William Phibbs had offered for sale over 300 acres of his Roscommon estate as well as over 2000 acres of an estate in county Westmeath, in the Encumbered Estates court. In 1867 oyster beds and houses in the city of Dublin, associated with the estate of Edward Joshua Cooper, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. In 1906 Catherine Phibbs is recorded as the occupier of property in the townland of Lisheenacooravan, barony of Carbury, including a mansion house. The Congested Districts Board acquired almost 1400 acres of the estate of Owen Phibbs in the early twentieth century.

Associated Families

Phibbs

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Seafield or Lisheen	Lisheenacooravan	Kilmacowen	Sligo	Kilmacowen 59	Carbury	Sligo	OSI Ref: G629323 OS Sheet: 20 Discovery map: 25
Springfield	Springfield or Magheragillerneeve	Drumcliff	Sligo	Drumcliff West 56	Carbury	Sligo	OSI Ref: G683396 OS Sheet: 8 Discovery map: 16
Strandhill House	Larass or Strandhill	Killaspugbrone	Sligo	Knocknarea	Carbury	Sligo	OSI Ref: G622366 OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 25
Grangemore (Tireragh)	Grangemore	Templeboy	Dromore West	Templeboy North 27	Tireragh	Sligo	OSI Ref: G469318 OS Sheet: 18 Discovery map: 24

Archival sources

Robinson Collection; Sligo County Library
Deeds, Leases etc. relating to Phibbs estates in County Sligo, 1766-1841. F.C/D.4/19; Sligo County Library
Licence for Oyster Bed, 1898. F.C/D.2/12.; Sligo County Library
Report & valuation on Phibbs estate in Curry, Barony of Leyny, 1912. F.C./D.2/8. ; Sligo County Library
Rentals and Maps of Ogham & Tubbercurry, estate of Richard Phibbs, 1904. ; Sligo County Library
Phibbs Family Wills, 1738-1938. F.C/D.4/19. ; Sligo County Library
Rental of Richard Phibbs' estate, 1850-57 and Curry estate, 1878-1887, Robinson Collection & Estates Collection, Vol 5. ; Sligo County Library
Rentals of Phibbs estates, 1866-1889, 1893-1905. Robinson Collection. ; Sligo County Library
Correspondence relating to Leyny estate of Richard Phibbs, 1853-1868. S.R. ; Sligo County Library
Rentals of the Phibbs estate, 1866-70. Robinson Collection. ; Sligo County Library
Solicitors' papers re Phibbs estate, 1747-1909. Private Accessions No. 1136/150; National Archives of Ireland
Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Phibbs, 25 June 1852, Vol 16, MRGS 39/007, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Phibbs, Cooper & Lindesay,11 January 1867, Vol 84, MRGS 39/041, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Thompson/Meredith, 30 January 1877, Vol 127, MRGS 39/057, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

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] : 367
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 318 (Roscommon) & 323 (Sligo)
ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Sligo: Vol II, 89-90
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 359? (listed as Springfield)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 394.
ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Roscommon: Vol. I, 6.
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Dromore West Union: 65 (Grange More)

Modern printed sources

McTERNAN, John C. ''At the Foot of Knocknarea: a chronicle of Coolera in bygone days.'' Sligo: Avena Publications, 1990. : 53-55
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 185
GLIN, Knight of, GRIFFIN, D. J. & ROBINSON, N.K (eds).'' Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland''. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive/Irish Georgian Society, 1989. : 131.
''The Irish Genealogist'': GRAY, E.S. Four Irish pedigrees including Phibbs of Spotfield, county Sligo. II, 2 (1944).
MARSDEN, Simon & McLAREN, Duncan. . ''In ruins: the once great houses of Ireland''. Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1997. : 92-93.
BALL-WRIGHT, W. and PHIBBS, O. ''Pedigree of the Phibbs family since their settlement in Ireland. Sligo: [s.i], 1890. : All
BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 482-483
''Corran Herald'': DUFFY, P.J. The Congested Districts Board [including list of lands acquired in county Sligo under the Wyndham Act]. XXXIV (2001-2002), 6-7
McTERNAN, John C. ''The light of bygone days, Volume II: Sligo families''. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. : 309-317
McTERNAN, John C. ''Sligo: the light of bygone days, Vol.I Houses of Sligo and associated families''. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. : 123-125 (Lisheen)
BLAKE, Tarquin. ''Abandoned mansions of Ireland''. Cork: Collins Press, 2010.: 282-287 (Seafield)
TONRA, Henry.''Parish of Ardcarne: a history''. (Cootehall, county Roscommon: [the author], 2001. : 125