Browne (Brownesgrove)
Thomas Browne, a younger son of the Brownes of Tuam, county Galway, was a wealthy agent and merchant. In the early 1850s he bought the estate of Joycegrove in the Encumbered Estates' Court from Thomas Reilly assignee of Henry Joyce and renamed it Brownesgrove. He is recorded in Griffith's Valuation as owning 2 townlands in the parish of Tuam. The representatives of Thomas Browne of Brownesgrove are recorded as owning 2,259 acres in the early 1870s. A modern looking house is now located at Brownesgrove with all the old farm buildings behind.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Joycegrove/Brownesgrove | Joycegrove | Tuam | Tuam | Killeen 220 | Dunmore | Galway |
OSI Ref: M467577
OS Sheet: 30 Discovery map: 39 |
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Archival sources
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Reilly & Joyce, 26 Nov 1850, Vol 4, MRGS 39/002, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Tuam Union, 181 (Joycegrove)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 223 (Henry Joyce)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 293
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
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1858: Browne of Greenville and Tuam