Dillon (Kilkenny West)
The Dillon family, Earls of Roscommon, held land in a number of counties including Galway, Roscommon and Westmeath. The Barony of Kilkenny West in county Westmeath was known as Dillon's Country. Colonel Cary Dillon, who succeeded his nephew the poet Wentworth Dillon, as 5th Earl of Roscommon in 1684 was granted land in counties Galway and Roscommon by patent dated 16 June 1669. The title became dormant in 1850. The Dillon family’s estate in the parish of Kilkenny West, county Westmeath, was in Chancery at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ.1854). Various family members held between 100 and 300 acres of land in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballycummin | Ballycummin | Kilmore | Carrick on Shannon | Kilmore 52 | Ballintober North | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: M998 915
OS Sheet: 18 Discovery map: 33 |
Archival sources
- Roscommon estates family deeds, mainly relating to Dalton, Dillon & Hanly families, 1650-1700. MS 24,597(1-2); National Library of Ireland
- Map of the Dillon estate in the townlands of Carrigan Beg and Carrigan More, Co. Roscommon and Inchmore and Nuns Island, Co. Westmeath, 1907. 15 A. 20 (8-9); National Library of Ireland
- Map of the lands of Anaugh (Annagh) in the Co. of Westmeath and barony of Kilkenny, the estate of Walter Jones, held by Mr. Redmond Dillon. Surveyed by J. Nettervill in Nov. 1752. Copied by J. Barker, 1767. 21 F. 80 (1); National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 188
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 186 and II, 115 (Annagh)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Carrick on Shannon Union, 2
- TAYLOR, J. Sydney (ed). ''The Roscommon Claim of Peerage''. London: Saunders and Benning, 1829: All
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Athlone Union, 14 (Lackan Lodge), 16 (Annagh)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 5