Patterson
The Pattersons were established in Ennis, county Clare, by the late 18th century. Marcus Patterson was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland from 1770-1787. Their estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation was in the parishes of Kilraghtis and Templemaley, barony of Bunratty Upper, Killaloe in the barony of Tulla Lower and Oughtmama in the barony of Burren. Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Paterson of Ballycurgan, Killaloe and Clifden House, Corrofin, owned 4,347 acres in county Clare in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Ballycuggaran | Ballycuggaran | Killaloe | Scarriff | Carrowbaun 120 | Tulla Lower | Clare |
OSI Ref: R683 765
OS Sheet: 37 Discovery map: 58 |
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| Clifden | Clifden | Rath | Corrofin | Rath 19 | Inchiquin | Clare |
OSI Ref: R266 892
OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 57 |
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| Abbeyfield | Clonroad Beg | Drumcliff | Ennis | Ennis Rural 26 | Islands | Clare |
OSI Ref: R339 778
OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 58 |
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Archival sources
- Map of the boundary line between Coumnagun and Feenlea, the estates of Marcus Paterson & Thomas Arthur, 1854. 21 F. 75(5); National Library of Ireland
- Commonplace Book of a landowner [Marcus Patterson or his agent] including various accounts, donations to Scariff races, details of horse breeding, notes giving tenants' names, acreage & stock, emigration to USA in 1847 etc, 1847-1860. MS 3773; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Scariff Union, 1 (Ballycuggaran)
- 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] : 363
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 113
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 215, 223