Landed Estates
University of Galway

Burton (Buncraggy & Carrigaholt)

Samuel Burton of Buncraggy, county Clare, married Margaret Harris and died in 1712. From their eldest son Francis descend the Marquesses of Conyngham and the Burtons of Carrigaholt and from their younger son, Benjamin Burton, Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1703 and Member of Parliament 1703-1723, descend the Burtons of Burton Hall, county Carlow. Francis Burton was a member of a partnership who purchased the forfeited estates of Viscount Clare from the Earl of Albemarle in 1698. His partners were Nicholas Westby and James McDonnell. The Burtons also acquired land from the Ingoldsbys and the Earl of Thomond. Francis's son, another Francis Burton, married Mary Conyngham and their son, Francis Pierpont Burton, succeeded his uncle as 2nd Baron Conyngham. The 2nd Baron married Elizabeth Clements and they had twin sons, Henry who became Marquess of Conyngham and Francis, father of Henry Stuart Burton of Carrigaholt Castle, who owned an estate consisting of 14 townlands in the parishes of Kilmacduane, Moyarta and Kilrush, barony of Moyarta, county Clare, in the mid 19th century. Henry S. Burton also had some land in the parish of Killone, barony of Islands. He had three sons and four daughters but none of his sons had any children so the male line died out in 1919. His eldest son, Francis N. V. Burton of Carnelly and Carrigaholt, owned an estate of 9,669 acres in the mid 1870s. His wife was Marie, daughter and heiress of Savory, Duke de Rovigo. The Conyngham Papers in the National Library of Ireland contain records relating to the Burton estates. Abstracts of Deeds Inrolled in Chancery 1834-1839, p. 28, records the details of a deed of 17 August 1835, made between Francis Pierpoint Burton of Cain, Normandy, Francis St Leger Burton of the same and Francis Gore of St Stephen’s Green, Dublin. Lands, amounting to 438 acres, in the baronies of Fore and Kilkenny West, county Westmeath, in county Cavan (424 acres) and property in Dublin were granted to Gore as trustee to raise an annuity of £100, the purpose of which was to bar the entail. In November 1854 the lands of Ardbuckan and Kiltober, over 200 acres of the Westmeath lands and properties in Dublin, were advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court by the two Burtons. The petitioners were George Paul Helsham and his wife Anne otherwise Burton, otherwise Dumbleton.

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Gower Hall Gower North Kilmacduane Kilrush Cooraclare 95 Moyarta Clare OSI Ref: R027 604
OS Sheet: 57
Discovery map: 57 		Photo of Gower Hall
Carrigaholt Rinemackaderrig Moyarta Kilrush Rahona 79 Moyarta Clare OSI Ref: Q847 511
OS Sheet: 65
Discovery map: 63 		Photo of Carrigaholt
Carnelly Carrownanelly Clareabbey Ennis Doora 32 Islands Clare OSI Ref: R365 735
OS Sheet: 42
Discovery map: 58 		Photo of Carnelly
Buncraggy Buncraggy Clareabbey Ennis Clareabbey 31 Islands Clare OSI Ref: R328 713
OS Sheet: 41
Discovery map: 58 		Photo of Buncraggy

Archival sources

  • Conyngham Estate Papers, Collection List 53, MSS 35,339-35,434; National Library of Ireland
  • Business Records Survey - Records of Michael McMahon & Son, Estate & Insurance agents, Ennis, including the Burton estate, 1757-1917. CL3/6; National Archives of Ireland
  • Wardenstown Papers, includes an assignment of Mogowna, Co Clare, Robert Kean the younger, Kildeema, Co Clare to William Stacpoole, Edenvale, 1783, formerly leased by Francis Pierpoint Burton to R. Kean. D.3549 ; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Burton, 24 Nov 1854, Vol 32 (13), MRGS 39/014, (microfilm copy in UG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Vandeleur Family (Wardenstown) Papers. Correspondence and documents relating to the Burton, Fitzgerald and Croasdaile families in Co. Clare and Co. Kerry. 1784-1885. MS 51,572/70-72; National Library of Ireland

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Modern printed sources