Landed Estates
University of Galway

Mennons

At the time of Griffith's Valuation Catherine Anna Mennons held a small townland of 29 acres of land in the parish of Kilgefin, barony of Ballintober South, county Roscommon, advertised for sale in June 1858. She also had an interest in the Neligan estate in the parish of Oran, barony of Ballymoe, county Roscommon. In May 1865 members of the Mennons family and of the Gray, Main, Wunsch and Brownhill families advertised for sale the rental of the lands of Ardkell, parish of Roscommon, barony of Ballintober South, which they held from the Pellys. In the 1870s a Mrs Daly with an address care of Mme Mennon, Villa Roseau, a Sevres, France, owned 602 acres in county Roscommon.

Associated Families

No houses were found for this estate

Archival sources

  • Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Mennons, 11 June 1858, Vol 52, MRGS 39/025, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Gray, Mennons, Main, Wunsch, Brownhill, 4 May 1865, Vol 76, MRGS 39/037, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Baker, Ringwood & Gordon, solicitors' collection, includes papers re the estate of Francis F.H.L. Mennons deceased with a statement of claim in Chancery case Hodson v Mennons 1823, 1906-1907. Small Accs. Index 105, M.3955(1-11); National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources