Champagne
The Reverend Arthur Champagne was born in the early 1720s at Castle Forbes, county Longford. He was a grandson of Arthur Forbes, Earl of Granard and became Dean of Clonmacnoise. He married Mary Anne daughter of Colonel Isaac Honan or Homan and their daughter Jane married in 1767 Henry Paget Earl of Uxbridge. They also had a son another Reverend Arthur Champagne. Griffith's Valuation records that the Reverend Arthur Champagne held land in the parishes of Cam and Tisrara, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon, in the 1850s, amounting to over a thousand acres. William Gacquin writes that Elizabeth Robinson Lyster leased land in the parish of Cam to the Reverend Arthur Champagne in 1776 and that this land was part of Champagne's marriage settlement with Mary Honan in 1788. The Champagnes leased their land in Cam to the Kelly family and did not reside in the county.
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milltown | Milltown | Iveruss | Rathkeale | Castletown 125 | Kenry | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R381 548
OS Sheet: 11 Discovery map: 64 |
Archival sources
- Copy of will of Rev Arthur Champagne, Dean of Clonmacnoise, died 7 May 1799, with an account of the Champagne family. Acc. No. 1/174, Langrishe notebook, T.12765a, No 1, page 27; National Archives of Ireland
- Agreement James Bernard of Castle Bernard, Co Cork, to George Stepney (eldest son and heir at law of Stepney Rawson Stepney, late of Abington, County Limerick), Durrow, Kings County (Offaly), the Rev. Arthur Champagne (Dean of Clomacnoise), George Rawson, Dublin City, the Rev Arthur Champagne (the younger, Clerk), & James Glascock, Dublin City, renewal of lease for 1 year of the town & lands of Cloghdowane, barony of Kinalea, Co Cork, 18 Dec 1782. IE BL/SC/CB/19; University College Cork, Boole Library Archives
- Descent of Champagne through Dawson (or Hamon), through Cooke of Burros in Co. Tipperary, from Digby of Newtown in Kings County 1683 -- 1767. Genealogical Office: Ms.176, p.353 ; National Archives of Ireland
- Details of the Huguenot family of Champagne, 19th-20th centuries, I volume. Ms 524; Representative Church Body Library
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of names of proprietors and area and valuation of properties in counties in Ireland, held in fee or perpetuity or long leases at chief rents,'' 1876. (412) LXXX. 395: 163
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Kenry, 22
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 28
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, county Limerick: Parish of Iveruss, III, 291