Winn
The Winns were originally a Yorkshire family. Their main seat was at Nostell Priory, near Wakefield. George Allanson Winn received the title Baron Headley in the Peerage of Ireland in the 1790s. Their estate amounted to over 25,000 acres in county Kerry in the 1870s, augmented by marriages into Kerry families including the Blennerhassetts. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation the estate was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Aghadoe, barony of Magunihy, Glanbehy, barony of Iveragh and Castleisland, barony of Trughanacmy. In 1877 over 80 acres held by Daniel O'Shea on lease from Lady Headley's estate, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. In the 1880s Bateman reported that the Kerry estate was over 12,700 acres. Over 13,000 acres of the Winn estate was acquired by the Congested Districts Board in 1907.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Curragh House | Curragh | Aghadoe | Killarney | Aghadoe 65 | Magunihy | Kerry |
OSI Ref: V919939
OS Sheet: 58 Discovery map: 78 |
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| Aghadoe House | Knoppoge | Aghadoe | Killarney | Aghadoe 65 | Magunihy | Kerry |
OSI Ref: V918923
OS Sheet: 66 Discovery map: 78 |
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| Aghadoe Cottage | Knoppoge | Aghadoe | Killarney | Aghadoe 65 | Magunihy | Kerry |
OSI Ref: V923927
OS Sheet: 66 Discovery map: 78 |
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| Ballynakilly | Ballynakilly Lower | Glanbehy | Cahersiveen | Glanbehy 18 | Iveragh | Kerry |
OSI Ref: V652883
OS Sheet: 63, 71 Discovery map: 78 |
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| Curra Mill | Curra | Glanbehy | Cahersiveen | Glanbehy 18 | Iveragh | Kerry |
OSI Ref: V658899
OS Sheet: 63 Discovery map: 78 |
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| Inchareagh Lodge | Rossbehy | Glanbehy | Cahersiveen | Glanbehy 18 | Iveragh | Kerry |
OSI Ref: V657917
OS Sheet: 63 Discovery map: 78 |
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| Meanus House (Kiltallagh) | Meanus | Kiltallagh | Tralee | Kiltallagh 158 | Trughanacmy | Kerry |
OSI Ref: Q839036
OS Sheet: 47 Discovery map: 71 |
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| Glenbeigh Towers | Kilnabrack Upper | Glanbehy | `Cahersiveen | Glanbehy 18 | Iveragh | Kerry |
OSI Ref: V667906
OS Sheet: 63 Discovery map: 78 |
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Archival sources
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), O’Shea, 19 July 1877, Vol 129, MRGS 39/058, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Copy of patent of precedence for Rowland Winn and Jane Mary Winn, spinster, 1850 and copy of petition of Rowland George Allanson Winn, 5th Lord Headley, 1913. Genealogical Office: Ms.803, p.1 ; National Library of Ireland
- Pedigree of Winn and Allanson, Barons Headley of Aghadoe, Co. Kerry, c. 1550 - 1797. Genealogical Office: Ms. 16, pp. 81-4 ; National Library of Ireland
- Irish Tourist Association Survey files, 1942-43: Parish of Fossa. ; Kerry Library, Local History & Archives Section
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Magunihy Barony: 5 (Curragh House), 11 (Aghadoe House & Aghadoe Cottage)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol I, 14
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 142 (Headley) & 145 (Winn)
- 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] : 212 (Headley) and 480 (Winn)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Iveragh Barony: 58 (Ballynakilly), 65 (Curra Mill), 77(Lickeen), 78 (Rossabehy)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Trughanacmy Barony: 186 (Meanus)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 250
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. '' 18th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 4927] HC 1909, xvi. Appendix XXXII: 141
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS County Kerry: Vol.I, Aghadoe Parish, 7, 16, 28
- SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxi
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.215
Modern printed sources
- Bary, Valerie. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes of some Houses of Kerry'' Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1994. : 3 (Aghadoe House & Cottage), 91-92 (Curragh), 124-125 (Glenbeigh Towers), 180-181 (Meanus House),
- BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 2 (Aghadoe House), 136 (Glenbeigh Towers)
- HICKS, David. ''Irish country houses: a chronicle of change''. Cork: The Collins Press, 2012. : 40-47.