Simpson's Hospital
In the mid 19th century the Trustees of Simpson's Hospital, founded 1779, owned land in the parishes of Aughrim and Clooncraff, barony and county of Roscommon. Some of their estate was leased from the See of Elphin and subleased to the Begg family and later to Thomas Babington. In the 1870s the Simpson's Hospital estate amounted to 696 acres in county Roscommon, 654 acres in county Meath and 2 acres in county Dublin. http://www.simpsonshospital.org/html/history.htm
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Contemporary printed sources
- 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] : 413
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 319