ffrench (Ballinamore)
The Honourable Martin ffrench was a younger brother of Sir Thomas ffrench, 3rd Baron. Martin ffrench held a large amount of land in the parishes of Killeroran and Killian, barony of Killian, county Galway, in the mid 1850s. In the 1870s he owned 3,818 acres in county Galway.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Ballinamore House or Curraghboy Lodge | Curraghboy | Killeroran | Mountbellew | Castleffrench 146 | Killian | Galway |
OSI Ref: M760 486
OS Sheet: 47 Discovery map: 47 |
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| Ballinlass | Ballinlass | Killeroran | Mountbellew | Castleffrench 146 | Killian | Galway |
OSI Ref: M776 486
OS Sheet: 47 Discovery map: 47 |
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| St Brendans | St Brendans or Creggangrogy | Killian | Mountbellew | Cloonkeen 148 | Killian | Galway |
OSI Ref: M738 538
OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 40 |
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Archival sources
- Ffrench of Castleffrench, 17th-19th centuries. MS 26,797-26,803 & D 16,899-16,932; National Library of Ireland
- Miscellaneous [Blake] deeds, including unexecuted mortgage of St Brendans, Lord Ffrench to Blakes, 1846. D 16,899-16,932; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 327 (Curraghboy - Neary)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mountbellew Union, 41 (Ballinlass), 44 (Curraghboy) & 59 (St Brendans)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 125 (Ballinamore & Ballinlass) & 146 (St Brendans)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 28 (Ballinlass - Fallon) & 345 (St Brendans - Fallon)
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Galway, http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/default.html: Curraghboy
- 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] : 156
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 295
- 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.
Modern printed sources
- MOSLEY, Charles (ed). ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage''. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999: I, 1056-1057
- MELVIN, Patrick. ''Estates and landed society in Galway''. (Dublin: Éamonn de Búrca, 2012). : p.412 Photograph of Ballinamore Park