Law (Cos Clare & Tipperary)
Originally from county Tyrone, a number of men of this family were clergymen in the Church of Ireland in county Cork in the 18th century. In 1828 the Reverend Patrick Comerford Law, rector of North Repps, Norfolk, married Frances Arbuthnot, daughter of the Right Reverend Alexander Arbuthnot, Bishop of Killaloe. At the time of Griffith's Valuation members of the Law family held four townlands in the parish of Killaloe, county Clare. In the 1870s Robert Law of Dublin owned 1,244 acres in county Clare. In the mid 19th century another member of this family Hamilton Robert Law, son of the Reverend Dr Robert Law and his second wife Sarah widow of Robert Roberts and daughter of Samuel Watson of Summerville, Clonmel, county Tipperary, held land in the parishes of Rochestown, barony of Iffa and Offa West and Inishlounaght, barony of Iffa and Offa East, county Tipperary. Robert H. Law of Kilmacoliver, county Kilkenny, owned 166 acres in county Tipperary and 606 acres in county Kilkenny in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyvally | Ballyvally | Killaloe | Scarriff | Killaloe 121 | Tulla Lower | Clare |
OSI Ref: R691 739
OS Sheet: 45 Discovery map: 58 |
Archival sources
- Correspondence and papers relating to the Law family estate at Killaloe, including rentals and map of Derrymore, Killaloe, 1828-1907. MSS. Top. Ireland b. 3-4, c. 7 ; Oxford University: Bodleian Library
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Scarriff Union, 2 (Ballyvally)
- 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] : 261
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 111, 165
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 322
- PINE, L.G. (ed). ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. 4th ed. London: Burke's Peerage, 1958.: 426-428
- MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 696-699