Landed Estates
University of Galway

Townsend

Richard W.Townsend held four townlands in the parish of Kilmovee, barony of Costello, county Mayo at the time of Griffith's Valuation, previously part of the estate of John Knox of Castlerea, barony of Tirawley. By the 1870s the Townsend estate was in the ownership of the Reverend William Gibbon.

No houses were found for this estate

Archival sources

  • Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals, Knox, 10 Mar 1853, Vol 20, MRGS 39/009, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland