McDermott (Castlereagh)

Bernard McDermott was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Kilkeevin, barony of Castlereagh at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s John McDermott of Castlerea owned over 200 acres in county Roscommon. In June 1856 Edward Fox, the assignee of William McDermott, offered almost 600 acres located in the barony of Castlereagh, for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court. Some of this land was on a lease from the Jephson estate from 1809 for three lives. It and other parts of the Jephson estate in Roscommon had been offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in November 1851. One lot was purchased in trust by Mr. Power while the second was bought by Charles Broderick.

Associated Families

No houses were found for this estate

Archival sources

Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), McDermott, 12 June 1856, Vol 40, MRGS 39/019, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Map of estate of Walter McDermott at Castleteheen and Carrowgarve, county Roscommon, 1907. 15 A 20 (16); National Library of Ireland
Encumbered Estates? Court Rentals (O?Brien), Jephson, 3 & 7 Nov 1851, Vol 11, MRGS 39/005, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 317.

Modern printed sources

''Freeman's Journal'': Encumbered Estates Court sale reports, 13 June 1856, p.4.