Sadleir (Galway)
Reverend Ralph Sadleir, rector of Castleknock, county Dublin, is recorded as the owner of over 900 acres in county Galway in the 1870s. He married as his first wife, his cousin Letitia, daughter of the Reverend Francis Sadleir, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. The College owned large tracts of land in the baronies of Ross and Ballynahinch, county Galway and in 1906 the Reverend Ralph Sadlier is recorded as the occupier of 33 acres of untenanted land at Carrick West in the parish of Cong, barony of Ross. He married secondly, Letitia, daughter of Captain Sewell, a family closely connected to the Berminghams, Lord Athenry. [Also in the 1870s William Sadlier, of the The Grange, Fermoy, county Cork, owned 35 acres in county Galway and 225 acres in county Cork. In the 1870s Matilda Anne Sadlier of Fermoy owned 1,763 acres in county Tipperary.]
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Grange Hill/The Grange | Grange East | Fermoy | Fermoy | Fermoy Rural 140 | Condons & Clangibbon | Cork |
OSI Ref: W804 989
OS Sheet: 35 Discovery map: 80 |
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Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 332
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 170, 299
- 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] : 402
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 235 (Grange East)