Browne (Cloonfad)
Melvin writes that this was a wealthy branch of the Browne family. Catherine daughter of Martin Browne of Cloonfad, county Roscommon married Denis O'Conor of Bellanagare and they were the parents of the antiquarian Charles O'Conor (1764-1828). Martin Browne's other daughter with a dowry of £2,500 married Thomas Lynch of Lowberry in 1782. By the time of Griffith's Valuation Mrs Margaret Browne retained 66 acres at Cloonfad More and a house valued at £4. The Brownes held Cloonfad from the Mahons of Strokestown. Father Martin Coen indicates that George Joseph Plunkett Browne was a member of this family. He was born in 1795 and was Bishop of Galway and subsequently of Elphin in the 1830s and 1840s .
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloonfad | Cloonfad More | Aughrim | Carrick on Shannon | Aughrim East 45 | Roscommon | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: M943 943
OS Sheet: 11 Discovery map: 33 |
Archival sources
- Map of Cloonfad Beg in the barony & county of Roscommon. 21 F 45 (110); National Library of Ireland
- Fr. Martin Heaney Collection, Mayo Abbey. P45/09/03: 114; Tuam Diocesan Archives, Tuam
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Carrick on Shannon Union, 54
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol I, 98
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Roscommon: Vol I, 53
- LEGG, Marie Louise (ed). ''Census of Elphin 1749''. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2004: 44
Modern printed sources
- ''Jnl. of the Old Athlone Society'': COEN, Martin. George Joseph Plunkett Browne. II No 5 (1978), 26-31
- MELVIN, Patrick. The Galway Tribes as Landowners and Gentry. In MORAN, Gerard (ed). ''Galway: History & Society''. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1996 : 319-374