Potts
O’Brien writes that the Potts were a family who came from Cheshire and settled in King’s County (County Offaly) at the end of the 17th century. By the early 18th century they held land around Athlone. The Drum Heritage Group record Correen, parish of Moore, barony of Moycarn, county Roscommon as the main seat of the Potts family in the mid-19th century. It was the home of William Potts and his wife Louisa Reid, a granddaughter of Sir George Ribton 2nd baronet. In the 1850s William and John Potts owned land in the parishes of Drum and St Peters, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon. In May 1865 the estate of Joseph Trumperant Potts, 141 acres at Sladagh and Corbally, barony of Middlethird, county Tipperary, was advertised for sale. In the 1870s William Trumperant Potts of Correen Castle owned 5,813 acres in county Roscommon and 144 acres in county Westmeath. His county Westmeath estate was located in the parishes of St Mary’s Athlone and Rathconrath. In 1896 he was succeeded by his son Lieutenant Colonel John William Hastings Potts of New Court, county Westmeath. Another branch of the family built a house at Runnymeade, Ballinasloe in the 1860s. In the 1870s Henry Trumperant Potts of Runnymeade owned 535 acres in county Galway, 771 acres in county Roscommon, 855 acres in King's county (county Offaly) and 180 acres in county Westmeath. Hussey records Henry Trumperant's surname as Pottinger but this is incorrect. Runnymeade was the house also known as Clooncannon or Cloncannon. See http://www.geocities.com/u_furley/potts.html
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Clooncannon/Cloncannon/Runnamead | Clooncannon (Kelly) | Ahascragh | Mountbellew | Clonbrock 147 | Clonmacnowen | Galway |
OSI Ref: M775423
OS Sheet: 61 Discovery map: 47 |
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| Crannagh House | Crannagh | Drum | Athlone | Crannagh 3 | Athlone | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: N012 401
OS Sheet: 52 Discovery map: 47 |
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| Scregg | Scregg | Killinvoy | Roscommon | Scregg 92 | Athlone | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: M931 558
OS Sheet: 42 Discovery map: 40 |
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| Kilgarve House | Kilgarve | Creagh | Ballinasloe | Creagh 21 | Moycarn | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: M876306
OS Sheet: 53 Discovery map: 47 |
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| Correen | Correen | Moore | Ballinasloe | Culliagh 22 | Moycarn | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: M915263
OS Sheet: 56 Discovery map: 47 |
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Archival sources
- Photostat copy of documents relating to property of Lt.Col. J.W. Hastings Potts, Newcourt, Athlone, in counties Roscommon and Westmeath, 1700-1909. MS. 3150.; National Library of Ireland
- Scregg photos. 047/001; Irish Architectural Archive
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Potts, 4 May 1865, Vol 76 (11), MRGS 39/037, (microfilm copy in NUIG); 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] : 372
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 327 (Clooncannon) & 385 (Scregg)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 318 (Roscommon).
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Athlone Union, 8 (Crannagh)
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Roscommon: I, 351 (Crannagh)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Ballinasloe Union, 15 (Kilgarve Hood), 27 (Correen)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mountbellew Union, 18. (Clooncannon)
- TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 82 (Corrine)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 133 (Correen), 345 (St Marks)
- SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxv, 78 (Correen)
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 134 (Carrine)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Athlone Barony, 13 (St Marks); 91 (Old Court)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 87 (Springpark); I, 205 (St Marks)