Burke (Burke's Court/Cloondaduv)
Garret Burke held a property from the Clanricarde estate at Cloondaduv in the parish of Ballynakill. John K. Burke, with an address at Woodford, held over 700 acres in the 1870s. Weir states that a branch of this family settled at Meelick, in the parish of Clonrush, possibly in the seventeenth century. Edward Burke of Meelick was buried at Kilnalahan Abbey, in the village of Abbey, county Galway, in 1741. The Meelick estate later bacame a Blake property.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Burke's Court | Cloondadauv | Ballynakill | Portumna | Drummin 186 | Leitrim | Galway |
OSI Ref: R805996
OS Sheet: 132 Discovery map: 53 |
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| Clonco House (Burke's Court) | Clonco | Ballynakill | Loughrea | Woodford 142 | Leitrim | Galway |
OSI Ref: R761997
OS Sheet: 126, 132 Discovery map: 53 |
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| Meelick | Meelick | Clonrush | Scarriff | Drummaan 132 | Leitrim | Galway |
OSI Ref: R754874
OS Sheet: 135 Discovery map: 59 |
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Archival sources
- Irish Tourist Association file, Parish of Clonrush, Clare North 1.; Clare County Library
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Portumna Union, 64.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 294
- 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] : 62.
- 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] : 62
- SLATER, Isaac. ''Commercial Directory of Ireland, 1846''. (London:Slater, 1846): p.134 (Portumna)
Modern printed sources
- EUSTACE, P. Beryl (ed.). ''Registry of Deeds, Dublin: Abstracts of Wills''. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1954: Will of Edmund Burke of Meelick, Co Galway, 1722. I, 127
- ''Jnl. of the East Clare Heritage Group: Sliabh Aughty'': BURKE, Brendan. A brief history of the Meelick Burkes, 1722-1844. XXXI (2007), 46-49