Gunning (Horton)
A family who came to Ireland in the early 17th century and settled in county Roscommon. From about the mid 18th century they were absentee landlords. Robert Gunning (1734-1816), a diplomat of the 1760s and 1770s, was rewarded with a baronetcy in 1778. In 1781 he bought the Horton estate in Northamptonshire, which remained in the possession of the Gunning family until 1888. In the mid 19th century the Gunnings owned land in the parishes of Killinvoy and Rahara, barony of Athlone, Kilteevan and Roscommon, barony of Ballintober South, county Roscommon. In the 1870s the Reverend Sir Henry John Gunning of Horton House owned 704 acres in county Roscommon and 2,033 acres in county Longford. At the time of Griffiths Valuation in the early 1850s, Sir Robert Gunning was among the principal lessors in the parish of Killashee, County Longford. Other members of the Gunning family such as the Reverend Hodson Gunning and Alexander Gunning held land in the parish of St Johns, barony of Athlone, in the 1850s and are recorded as owning respectively 185 acres and 215 acres in the county in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Port House | Rinnagan | St Johns | Athlone | Lecarrow 16 | Athlone | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: M998 548
OS Sheet: 46 Discovery map: 40 |
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| Carrowmore | Carrowmore | Roscommon | Roscommon | Roscommon Rural 90 | Ballintober South | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: M905 633
OS Sheet: 40 Discovery map: 40 |
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| Castlestrange | Castlestrange | Fuerty | Roscommon | Fuerty 77 | Athlone | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: M819 599
OS Sheet: 41 Discovery map: 40 |
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Archival sources
- Gunning (Horton) collection includes documents re title and sale of Castlestrange estate, legal papers, rent rolls, re Gunning family estates in Cos Roscommon, Longford & Dublin, 18th & 19th centuries. G(H); Northamptonshire Record Office
- Deed of Partition of the estate of St John's, Co Roscommon between Gunning, Grehan, Sproule, Fair & Hogan families, 1841. E.C. Jameson solicitor's collection, Small Accessions Index 50, D.5479-5480; 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] : 197
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 316
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Athlone Union, 108 (Rinnagan)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Roscommon Union, 133 (Carrowmore)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix III. Abstracts of the conveyances from the trustees of the Forfeited Estates and Interests in Ireland in 1688'.: 387
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.197
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Longford Union, p.114 (Cloondara), p.116 (Knappoge)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: p.53 (Longford)