Leonard
John Leonard of the Waterford family of that name, was granted over 600 acres in the barony of Kilconnell, county Galway by patent in 1678. He was succeeded by his brother Stephen. By the early 19th century Stephen Leonard's descendants were living at Queensfort and held an estate in the parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, county Galway. The first Ordnance Survey map shows two substanial houses, Queensfort Lodge and Queensfort House, in the townland. By the time of Griffith's Valuation a house valued at £16 was occupied by Stephen Leonard and another valued at 10s by Thomas Joyce. In the 1870s Dominick Leonard of The Mall, Tuam, owned 1,496 acres in county Galway, Stephen J. Leonard of Tuam owned 382 acres in county Galway and 557 acres in county Roscommon and Patrick M. Leonard of London owned 898 acres in the parish of Kiltullagh, county Roscommon. Earlier, in 1869, property belonging to Patrick Leonard in County Roscommon were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. One lot was bought back by the owner, the sale of the other lots was adjourned. 1,171 acres belonging to P.M. Leonard in the counties Galway and Roscommon were vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 6 June 1904.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Queensfort Lodge | Queensfort | Tuam | Tuam | Killeen 220 | Dunmore | Galway |
OSI Ref: M470 571
OS Sheet: 30 Discovery map: 39 |
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| Queensfort House | Queensfort | Tuam | Tuam | Killeen 220 | Dunmore | Galway |
OSI Ref: M465 578
OS Sheet: 30 Discovery map: 39 |
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Archival sources
- Ordnance Survey maps showing lands in non congested districts: estate of P.M. Leonard, 386 acres in baronies of Dunmore & Athenry, Co Galway, 1907. 15.A.23(13-14); National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Tuam Union, 183
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. '' 18th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 4927] HC 1909, xvi. Appendix XXXII: 137
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Galway, http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/default.html: Queensfort
- 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] : 268
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 207 & 317
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 648 (Queensfort)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 383 (Kiltullagh, Co Roscommon)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 247
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: II, 1093
- EUSTACE, P. Beryl (ed.). ''Registry of Deeds, Dublin: Abstracts of Wills''. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1954: Will of Stephen Leonard of Carha, Co Galway, 1710. I, 21
- ''Irish Times'': Landed Estates Court sale reports, 30 June 1869, p.4.