Stewart (Co Clare)
The Stewart and Vandeleur families were related through their descent from two daughters of Charles Moore 1st Marquess of Drogheda, Mary married in 1791 Alexander Stewart of the Ards, brother of the 1st Marquess of Londonderry and Frances married in 1800 John Ormsby Vandeleur. In the mid 19th century John Vandeleur Stewart of Rock Hill, county Donegal, third son of Alexander and Mary held an estate in county Clare in the parishes of Kilmacduane, barony of Moyarta and Kilfiddane and Kilmihil, barony of Clonderalaw. He was also among the principal lessors in the parish of Leck, barony of Raphoe North, County Donegal, In the 1870s his estate in county Clare amounted to 4,551 acres w at the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s. Hussey de Burgh records his estate as over 500 acres in County Donegal. In 1837 John Vandeleur Stewart married Helen daughter of Hector J. G. Toler, 2nd Earl of Norbury. His cousin Crofton Moore Vandeleur married Helen's sister Grace in 1832.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Creegh House | Creegh South | Kilrush | Kilrush | Creegh 82 | Moyarta | Clare |
OSI Ref: R040 672
OS Sheet: 47 Discovery map: 57 |
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| Rockhill House (Raphoe North) | Rockhill | Leck | Letterkenny | Ballymacool | Raphoe North | Donegal |
OSI Ref: C144095
OS Sheet: 61 Discovery map: 6 |
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Archival sources
- Studdert Papers: documents relating to family of Stewart & lands at Creigh & Clonina, barony of Moyarta, & Rockhill, Co Donegal, 1846-1900. MS 20,638; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kilrush Union, 96 (Creegh South)
- 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] : 427
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 114
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.II, p.248 (Rockhill House, parish of Leck)
Modern printed sources
- WEIR, Hugh W. L. ''Historical, Genealogical and Architectural notes on some Houses of Clare''. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1999. : 93
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: 439-440 (Marquess of Drogheda), 850-852 (Marquess of Londonderry)