Landed Estates
University of Galway

Hughes (Co Roscommon)

The Hughes family appear to have connections with county Sligo and to have been resident at Beechwood in county Roscommon from at least the 1730s. Edward Stewart Gray records Blashford Hughes of Beechwood as High Sheriff of county Sligo in 1738. Taylor and Skinner record Beechwood as the residence of Hughes esquire and a deed in the National Library of Ireland, dated 1783 and involving the Wynne estate, would suggest that Beechwood was the residence of Henry Hughes at that time. The maps in the Public Record Office of Ireland of the Hughes estate in the parishes of Drumatempel and Oran, barony of Ballymoe, county Roscommon refer to the estate of Thomas Hughes of county Antrim. His daughter married Sir William G. Johnson. It is not clear if this is the same Hughes family as that of Beechwood.

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Beechwood Tonlegee Kilteevan Roscommon Kilteevan 86 Ballintober South Roscommon OSI Ref: M935668
OS Sheet: 40
Discovery map: 40 		Photo of Beechwood

Archival sources

  • Hughes estate maps, 19th century. D.2946 add.; National Archives of Ireland
  • Deeds between Henry Hughes of Beechwood, Co Roscommon & Owen Wynne of Hazelwood, Co Sligo, re lands in barony of Balllintober South, 7 May 1789. D 16, 836-16,837; National Library of Ireland
  • Two manuscript maps of the Hughes estate in the parishes of Drumatemple and Oran, Co Roscommon, 1837. D/2946/2/1 & 1A; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland

Contemporary printed sources