Landed Estates
University of Galway

Handcock (Aughrim)

Reverend William Handcock owned an estate of just over 500 acres in the parish of Aughrim, barony and county of Roscommon in the 1850s. Parts were leased to Horatio Nelson Lawder and to Robert Devenish. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ.1854) William Handcock held the townland of Farthingstown, parish of Rathconrath, county Westmeath. The estate of Reverend William Handcock at Farthingstown and Carthron, was for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court on 24 April 1857. In the 1870s Mrs Sarah Handcock of Ballyknockan House, Ballypatrick, county Tipperary, owned 515 acres in county Roscommon. Walford's records William Frederick Bryanton Handcock residing at Ballyknockan in 1910. He was a son of Robert Ball Handcock of Ballyknockan and of Cole Hill, county Longford and a grandson of Sarah Handcock. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coddingtons/15887.htm

Associated Families

No houses were found for this estate

Archival sources

  • Bole Account Books, estate business of Reverend William Handcock in Cos Roscommon & Westmeath, 1845-c 1890s. MSS 14,102-14,109; National Library of Ireland
  • Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Handcock, 24 Apr 1857, Vol 44 (58), MRGS 39/021, (microfilm copy in UG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Handcock Papers: Executor's account book of R.C. Bryanton, references to lands in Longford and Westmeath, 1818-1830. [microfilm copyN.6286, P.7093]; National Library of Ireland
  • Handcock Papers: Letters to Major William Phipps, Dundalk from John Bole of Castleray, County Longford re estate matters. 1832-36. [microfilm copyN.6286, P.7093]; National Library of Ireland

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