Hickman (Fenloe)
Gregory Hickman was an English merchant in the south of England in the first half of the 17th century. He married twice, the Hickmans of Barntic, barony of Islands, county Clare were descended from his first marriage and the Hickmans of Ballyket, Brickhill, Kilmore and Fenloe, county Clare, from his second marriage. Henry Hickman, youngest son of Gregory Hickman, settled at Ballyket and his youngest son Hugh founded the Hickman family of Fenloe. Hugh had two sons Luke of Fenloe and Thomas of Brickhill. The family connection with Fenloe ceased in the second decade of the 20th century. Hugh Palliser Hickman of Fenloe owned over 3,000 acres in county Clare in the 1870s, although he resided at Fenloe, parish of Tomfinlough, barony of Bunratty Lower, which he held from William Westby, most of his estate was in the parishes of Kilballyowen and Kilmacduane, barony of Moyarta.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Dangananella House | Dangananella East | Kilmacduane | Kilrush | Drumellihy 84 | Moyarta | Clare |
OSI Ref: R037 624
OS Sheet: 47 Discovery map: 57 |
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| Fenloe House | Finlough | Tomfinlough | Ennis | Tomfinlough 43 | Bunratty Lower | Clare |
OSI Ref: R437 706
OS Sheet: 42 Discovery map: 58 |
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Archival sources
- Wilson Lynch Papers LE6/D/245-262; James Hardiman Library, University of Galway
- Inchiquin Papers, includes records re the Hickman family of Barntick & Fenloe, 1632-1776. Collection List 143. MSS 45,725-45,738; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kilrush Union, 97 (Dangananella East), Ennis Union, 31 (Finlough)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 110
- 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] : 218
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 636 (Finloe)
- 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: 200 & 202 (Fenloe)
Modern printed sources
- WEIR, Hugh W. L. ''Historical, Genealogical and Architectural notes on some Houses of Clare''. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1999. : 98-99, 125
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 264-265
- ''North Munster Antiquarian Journal'': LOGAN, John. ''Robert Clive's Irish Peerage and Estate, 1761-1842''. XLIII (2003), 1-19
- GLIN, Knight of, GRIFFIN, D. J. & ROBINSON, N.K (eds).'' Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland''. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive/Irish Georgian Society, 1989. : 41 (Fenloe)