Landed Estates
University of Galway

Molony (Kiltanon)

This family were established in county Clare from the early 17th century and the Kiltanon branch are descended from a younger son of the Molonys of Cragg. James Molony married Elizabeth one of the daughters and co heiresses of Thomas Croasdaile of Cloghstoken, county Galway and his wife Mercy Ringrose of Moynoe, Scarriff. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Molony estate was comprised of 24 townlands in the paish of Tulla and 9 townlands in the parish of Feakle, barony of Tulla Upper. They also held land in the parishes of Abbey and Oughtmama, barony of Burren. This estate of over 10,000 acres was in the possession of Major William Mills Molony of Kiltanon in the 1870s. The sale of over 5,000 acres of this estate to the Congested Districts' Board was agreed in 1909. http://glasnost.itcarlow.ie/~moloneyg/

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Knockbeha Cottage Knockbeha Feakle Scarriff Corlea 128 Tulla Upper Clare OSI Ref: R573 912
OS Sheet: 20
Discovery map: 52
Bunavory Bunavory Tulla Tulla Tulla 154 Tulla Upper Clare OSI Ref: R481 804
OS Sheet: 35
Discovery map: 58
Kiltanon Kiltanon Tulla Tulla Kiltannon 152 Tulla Upper Clare OSI Ref: R465 815
OS Sheet: 27
Discovery map: 58 		Photo of Kiltanon
Nutgrove Cottage Kiltanon Tulla Tulla Kiltannon 152 Tulla Upper Clare OSI Ref: R472 816
OS Sheet: 27
Discovery map: 58

Archival sources

  • Pedigree of Molony of Ballynahincy & Kiltannon, Clonmore, Craganacreene or Cragg, Ennis & Dublin city, c 1680-1919. GO MS 180: 496-503; National Library of Ireland
  • Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (Dunboyne), Molony, 3 July 1862, Vol 27, 79-86; James Hardiman Library, University of Galway
  • Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Molony, 3 July 1862, Vol 66 (16), 6 Nov 1862, Vol 66 (66), MRGS 39/033, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Survey of estate of James Molony in Co Clare by William Stokes, 1837. 999/846; National Archives of Ireland
  • Foster/Massereene Papers, include memorial of James Molony, Esq., of Killannon, Co. Clare to Linen Board for aid in Dowlass manufacture in Co. Clare, c 1760. MIC500/9 ; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Molony of Kiltanon Papers, in possession of Major Marcus W. Keane of Mogoban, Co Tipperary in 1965.; Private Possession

Contemporary printed sources

Modern printed sources