Finucane (Stamer Park)
At the beginning of the 19th century Daniel Finucane was residing at Stamer Park, Ennis, county Clare. Weir writes that he married Catherine Daxon in 1792. His daughter Bridget married John James Cullen of Skreeny, county Leitrim in 1810. Diana Finucane daughter of Daniel Finucane of Stamer Park married Andrew Stacpoole of Lifford, Ennis, in 1827. Daniel Finucane's son Michael was the proprietor of Stamer Park in 1837 and married Lucinda daughter of Pierce Carrick of Ennis. They had six children. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation their eldest son Daniel Carrick Finucane held land in the parishes of Kilmaley and Drumcliff, barony of Islands and Dysert, Kilnamona and Inagh, barony of Inchiquin. Daniel C. Finucane died unmarried in 1866 and his younger brother Pierce Finucane of Larch Hill, Ennis, owned 2,333 acres in county Clare in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Stamer Park | Clonroad Beg | Drumcliff | Ennis | Ennis Rural 26 | Islands | Clare |
OSI Ref: R341 777
OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 58 |
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| Larch Hill | Reaskaun | Templemaley | Ennis | Templemaley 25 | Bunratty Upper | Clare |
OSI Ref: R329 816
OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 58 |
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Archival sources
- Genealogy of Finucane family, with illustration of arms, by Philip Crossle, 1929. GO MS 558; National Library of Ireland
- Genealogy of Finucane family in Co Clare, in Irish & English, by Aodh Buidhe MacCuirtin, 1731-1739. GO MS 560; National Library of Ireland
- Genealogical notes, with copies of wills, re Finucane family, Co Clare. M.1934-1935, T.6925-6955, D.16575 ; National Archives of Ireland
- Guinness, Mahon & Co Deposit (1937), includes deeds extracts re Finucane family, Co Clare. D.5768-5923, C.1075-5275; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 504
- 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] : 158
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 109
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Ennis Union, 77 (Reaskaun), 145 (Clonroad Beg)
Modern printed sources
- WEIR, Hugh W. L. ''Historical, Genealogical and Architectural notes on some Houses of Clare''. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1999. : 176, 253
- ''Irish Ancestor'': MOTT, George. Finucane of Co Clare. I (1969), 1-10 & 144