O'Donnell (Boyle)
Robert O'Donnell was the owner of over 700 acres in county Roscommon in the 1870s. His estate was based at Greyfield, barony of Boyle where he leased a house from the O'Reilly estate. The OS Name Books indicate that O'Donnell was the agent for the O'Reilly estate in the area.
Associated Families
Map of Estate Houses
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Archival sources
- Pedigree of O'Donel of Greyfield, Co Roscommon, c 1760-1865. GO MS 179: 369-371; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Boyle Union, 81.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 318
- 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] : 348.
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol. II 203.
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Roscommon: Vol. I, 31.