Landed Estates
University of Galway

O'Donoghue

The family were of ancient Gaelic origin who had forfeited much of their lands after the Desmond rebellion in the sixteenth century. Nonetheless The O’Donoghue was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Aghadoe and Killaha, barony of Magunihy, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. The estate amounted to over 9000 acres in county Kerry in the 1870s. In June and December 1865, almost 6000 acres in the baronies of Glanarought, Iveragh and Magunihy in county Kerry and West Muskerry in county Cork were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. The lands offered in the June 1865 sale were bought by James Roche. Property sold in the court in April 1866 were purchased in trust by various soliciors.

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Killaha Castle or Killaha House Killaha Killaha Killarney Flesk 62 Magunihy Kerry OSI Ref: W047865
OS Sheet: 66
Discovery map: 78
Summerhill (Mount Meredith) Coolgarriv Aghadoe Killarney Killarney Rural 71 Magunihy Kerry OSI Ref: V959927
OS Sheet: 66
Discovery map: 78
Cleeny Cleeny Aghadoe Killarney Killarney Rural 71 Magunihy Kerry OSI Ref: V958921
OS Sheet: 66
Discovery map: 78
Tomies Tomies Aghadoe Killarney Muckross Magunihy Kerry OSI Ref: V894900
OS Sheet: 66
Discovery map: 78

Archival sources

  • D.7372: Transcript of recovery of the manor of Killaha, Thomas Taylor v William Carter, 1734. ; National Library of Ireland
  • Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), O’Donoghue, 30 June 1865, Vol 77, MRGS 39/038, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), O’Donoghue, 15 December 1865, Vol 79, MRGS 39/039, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

Modern printed sources