Landed Estates
University of Galway

Gallway

Edward Galway, of Queen’s County, owned over 1500 acres in Kerry in the 1870s. In the 1830s, Christopher Gallway is mentioned as agent to Lord Kenmare in the Ordnance Survey Name Books. He is recorded as the proprietor of several large business concerns in and around Killarney at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. He was also one of the principal lessors of property in the parish of Molahiffe, barony of Magunihy, at the same time. In May 1855, the property known as Killarney Flour Mills, owned by John Gallwey, on lease from the Kenmare estate, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. A lithography, showing the mill buildings is included in the sale notice. The Freeman's Journal reported that it was purchased in trust by Mr. McGrath for £1500.

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Royal Victoria Hotel Knockreer Aghadoe Killarney Killarney Urban 68 Magunihy Kerry OSI Ref: V943912
OS Sheet: 66
Discovery map: 78 		Photo of Royal Victoria Hotel
Ballymalis Ballymalis Kilbonane Killarney Kilbonane 82 Magunihy Kerry OSI Ref: V846955
OS Sheet: 57
Discovery map: 78
Killarney Mills Derreen Killarney Killarney Killarney Rural 67 Magunihy Kerry OSI Ref: V956916
OS Sheet: 66
Discovery map: 78 		Photo of Killarney Mills
Torc View (Torc View Hotel) Scartlea Killarney Killarney Coolies Magunihy Kerry OSI Ref: V988882
OS Sheet: 67
Discovery map: 78
Cloonlara Cloonlara Molahiffe Killarney Molahiffe 91 Magunihy Kerry OSI Ref: Q919051
OS Sheet: 48
Discovery map: 71
Inchinveema Inchinveema Molahiffe Killarney Molahiffe 91 Magunihy Kerry OSI Ref: Q927059
OS Sheet: 48
Discovery map: 71

Archival sources

  • Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Gallwey, 1 May 1855, Vol 34, MRGS 39/016, (microfilm copy in NUIG) ; National Archives of Ireland
  • Irish Tourist Association Survey files, 1942-43: Parish of Fossa.; Kerry Library, Local History & Archives Section

Contemporary printed sources

Modern printed sources