Stannus
Walter Trevor Stannus of the Manor House, Lisburn, county Antrim is recorded as the owner of almost 6000 acres in county Galway in the ''Landowners of Ireland'' of the mid 1870s. He was married to Catherine, one of the daughters of the Reverend Henry Vesey Fitzgerald, Dean of Kilmore and 2nd Baron Vesey Fitzgerald. Two of the Baron's daughters married sons of the Very Reverend James Stannus, Dean of Ross, and the 5,678 acre estate of M.G. Stannus and others in county Galway was vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 5 March 1914.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 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] : 424.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 45 & 46