Carroll (Cherryfield)
In the 1850s John W. Carroll and Richard Wolsley held an estate in the parish of Cloontuskert, barony of Ballintober South and John Carroll held land in the parish of Shankill, barony of Roscommon, county Roscommon. John Walter Carroll was a member of the county Louth family of Carrolls. He lived in Dublin and owned 1,180 acres in county Roscommon in the 1870s. His son Frederick of Moone Abbey, county Kildare owned 337 acres in county Roscommon and 569 acres in county Kildare. Another son James, a surgeon major in the army, owned 174 acres at Cherryfield, parish of Shankill . The Wolseleys were baronets of Mount Wolseley, county Carlow.
Associated Families
No associated families were found for this estate
No houses were found for this estate
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 314
- 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] : 73
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Strokestown Union, 143
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Roscommon: Vol IV, 45
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 552 (Mills)
Modern printed sources
- PINE, L.G. (ed). ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. 4th ed. London: Burke's Peerage, 1958.: 143-144
- HOWARD, Joseph Jackson and CRISP, Frederick Arthur (eds). ''Visitation of Ireland''. Baltimore: reprint by Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1973: Vol VI, 25-27 (Wolseley)