Olpherts
Capt. Richard Olpherts was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Dromard, barony of Tireragh, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Accounts suggest that he purchased the estate at Tanrego from Col. Irwin's representatives in 1855. He served as a magistrate for county Sligo in 1862. Francis M. Olpherts acted as agent for the Wynne estate in the mid nineteenth century and resided at Mount Shannon House, near Sligo. Though the family originated in Derry, Francis Olpherts father, Richard, was rector of Bushmills, county Antrim. Richard Olpherts sold the Tanrego estate to Richard Verschoyle in the 1860s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Tanrego | Tanrego East or Carrowmore | Dromard | Dromore West | Dromard East 24 | Tireragh | Sligo |
OSI Ref: G601313
OS Sheet: 19 Discovery map: 25 |
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| Mount Shannon | Shannon Eighter | Calry | Sligo | Drumcliff East 55 | Carbury | Sligo |
OSI Ref: G693381
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 16 |
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Archival sources
- Tanrego photographs. 016/022. ; Irish Architectural Archive
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Dromore West Union 92
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Sligo Union
- SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxx, 33 (Mount Shannon)