Meredith (Dysert)
Richard Meredith was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Castleisland and Killeentierna, barony of Trughanacmy, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1830s, the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books record Captain Meredith as the owner of townlands in the parish of Castleisland. The Meredith estate amounted to over 1800 acres in the 1870s. Over 3000 acres of Richard Meredith's estate, including Dicksgrove House, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in June 1855. In 1863, Several thousand acres in the barony of Trughanacmy, the property of Robert Fitzgerald Meredith, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. At least some of this was land purchased earlier in the Encumbered Estates Court. John Busteed was the tenant of over 800 acres at the time of the sale.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Dicksgrove | Dicksgrove | Dysert | Killarney | Killeentierna 90 | Trughanacmy | Kerry |
OSI Ref: Q967040
OS Sheet: 48 Discovery map: 71 |
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| Annamore House | Annamore | Killeentierna | Killarney | Killeentierna | Trughanacmy | Kerry |
OSI Ref: R003067
OS Sheet: 40 Discovery map: 72 |
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| Parkmore House | Ranalough | Killeentierna | Killarney | Killeentierna | Trughanacmy | Kerry |
OSI Ref: Q981049
OS Sheet: 48 Discovery map: 71 |
Archival sources
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Meredith, 14 June 1855, Vol 35, MRGS 39/016, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Meredith, 6 July 1863, Vol 69, MRGS 39/034, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 143
- 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] : 316
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Trughanacmy Barony: 116 (Dicksgrove)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.II, 140 (Killeentierna Parish)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 155 (Dick's Grove)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 256
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS County Kerry: Vol.I, Castleisland Parish, 344.
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 187 (Dick's Grove)
Modern printed sources
- Bary, Valerie. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes of some Houses of Kerry'' Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1994. : 8-9 (Annamore), 97-98 (Dicksgrove) 194 (Parkmore)
- LYONS, Mary C. ''Illustrated Incumbered Estates, Ireland, 1850-1905.'' Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1993. : 146-147.
- ''THE KERRY MAGAZINE'': BARY, Valerie. Annamore House. 11 (2000), 6-10.