Peyton (Knockvicar)
The representatives of Charles Peyton are recorded as the owners of over 600 acres in county Roscommon in the 1870s. Over 150 acres in the barony of Boyle, part of the estate of the late Alicia Peyton, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in July 1877. Earlier, in 1851, over 1000 acres of the estate of Wynne Peyton, close to Carrick-on-Shannon but located in the barony of Boyle, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court. At the time of the first Ordnance Survey the Peyton family were agents for the Barton and Neville estates. The family had been resident in the area since at least the eighteenth century as James Peyton, farmer and John Peyton, gentleman, are recorded in the Census of 1749. In 1871 Tobias Peyton of Boyle married Frances Carleton Ellis, daughter of Thomas H. Ellis of The Hermitage, Clongesh, County Longford. Hussey de Burgh recorded him as the owner of over 700 acres in that county in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Knockvicar | Knockvicar | Ardcarn | Boyle | Rockingham 36 | Boyle | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: G876056
OS Sheet: 6 Discovery map: 33 |
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| Lough Key House | Ballykeevican | Kilbryan | Boyle | Rockingham 36 | Boyle | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: G836026
OS Sheet: 6 Discovery map: 33 |
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| Carrickard House | Keeloges | Kilbryan | Boyle | Rockingham 36 | Boyle | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: G831017
OS Sheet: 6 Discovery map: 33 |
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Archival sources
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Peyton, 12 July 1877, Vol 129, MRGS 39/058, (microfilm copy in NUIG) ; National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Peyton, 10 October 1851, Vol 11, MRGS 39/005, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Family of Peyton, formerly Malet of Peyton Hall in Suffolk & other locations in England & of Boyle & Cartrons, county Roscommon and Laheen, Dayney & Port, county Leitrim, 1100-1840. GO Ms. 174, 128-53. ; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol. I, 43.
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 257.
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Boyle Union, 23 (Knockvicar), 72 (Ballykeevican & Keeloges).
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Roscommon: Vol. I, 7.
- LEGG, Marie Louise (ed). ''Census of Elphin 1749''. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2004: Oxhill, Ardcarn Parish, 437
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: p.54 (Longford)
- 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] : p.386
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Longford Union, p.89