Goodbody
James Perry Goodbody of Beechmount, Clara, county Offaly, owned an estate of 2,309 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. His mother was a daughter of James Perry of Obelisk Park, county Dublin, who held property in Athenry, county Galway at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Part of the estate of Lewis Goodbody at Pokoroko, in the townland of Fairy Hill, barony of Longford, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates court in June 1877. This seems to be the only instance of this property being named Pokoroko. It is generally known as Fairy Hill. The Irish Times reported that George Cheevers was the purchaser. Lewis Goodbody, of Drayton Villa, Clara, is recorded as the owner of over 100 acres in county Galway in the 1870s as well as lands in Offaly and Westmeath. Marcus Goodbody is recorded as the proprietor of over 2300 acres in county Galway at the same time.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Palmerstown ( Pokoroko) | Fairy Hill | Lickmolassy | Portumna | Portumna 183 | Longford | Galway |
OSI Ref: M862050
OS Sheet: 127 Discovery map: 53 |
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Archival sources
- Landed Estates Court Rentals (O'Brien), Goodbody, 8 June 1877, Vol 128, MRGS 39/058, (microfilm copy in NUIG).; National Archives of Ireland
- Notes on the family of Goodbody in Ireland, supplementary to those in Ms. 9104. (Dup. t.- s.) Ms. 13,595 ; National Library of Ireland
- Pedigree of the Grubb and Goodboy families, 16th to 20th c. ; Society of Friends Library, Dublin
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] : 184
- 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.
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.186
Modern printed sources
- PINE, L.G. (ed). ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. 4th ed. London: Burke's Peerage, 1958.: 312-313.
- ''Irish Times'': Landed Estates Court sale reports, 9 June 1877, p.3