Barclay
McAuliffe writes that the Barclays, a Quaker family, came from Scotland to Ireland. At the end of the 17th century a Reverend David Barclay, rector of Kilmurry McMahon, was renting a farm at Ballyartney, parish of Killofin, county Clare, from the See of Killaloe. The Prior Wandesforde Estate Papers contain an indenture between Richard and Agnes Southwell and David Barclay of Ballyartney, dated 1728. At the beginning of the 19th century Richard Barclay was resident at Ballyartney. He married Millicent Studdert and had a large family, some of whom emigrated to Argentina. His son, Thomas Barclay, married Charlotte Morony of Miltown House, Miltown Malbay and they had six children. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Charlotte held an estate in the parishes of Killofin and Kilfiddane, barony of Clonderalaw, while her brother-in-law, George Barclay, held two townlands, including 923 acres in the parish of Kilfiddane. In February 1865 part of the lands of Cahircalla was purchased by Richard John Stacpoole from the Barclays for £1350. In the 1870s Richard Barclay of South America owned 923 acres in county Clare while the representatives of Richard Barclay, address Ballyartney, owned 338 acres. see http://www.kittybrewster.com/ancestry/studdert.htm
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyartney | Ballyartney | Killofin | Killadysert | Coolmeen 71 | Clonderalaw | Clare |
OSI Ref: R153 542
OS Sheet: 68 Discovery map: 64 |
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Archival sources
- Prior Wandesforde Estate Papers, Collection List 52, MS 35,549(4); National Library of Ireland
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (Dunboyne), Barclay, 23 Feb 1865, Vol 25, 37-44, (note re purchaser); James Hardiman Library, University of Galway
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien),Barclay, 23 Feb 1865, Vol 75 (45), MRGS 39/037, (microfilm copy in NUIG) ; National Archives of Ireland
- Business Records Survey - Michael McMahon & Son, Estate & Insurance agents, Ennis, including the Barclay estate, 1720-1953. CL3/3; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 107
- 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] : 19
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Killadysert Union, 43 (Ballyartney)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 89 & 150
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 31
- TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 204 (Ballyartrey)
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 178 (Ballyartney)
Modern printed sources
- MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 1069
- WEIR, Hugh W. L. ''Historical, Genealogical and Architectural notes on some Houses of Clare''. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1999. : 18, 226-227
- MCAULIFFE, E.J. ‘’Notes on the parishes of Kilmurry McMahon and Killofin, Co Clare and Tombstone Inscriptions from Kilrush’’. Dublin: [the author], 1989: 6
- ''Irish Times'': Landed Estates Court sales, 24 February 1865, p.3