Rice
The estate of Justice D. Rice of Bushmount, Causeway, amounted to over 1200 acres in county Kerry in the 1870s. The Rice family held lands in the Dingle area in the eighteenth and nineteenth century and the Bushmount family were descended from them. Smith indicates that the Dingle family descend from Stephen Rice, granted lands in the Dingle area during the reign of Elizabeth I. He also notes that Edward Rice was granted an estate in Kerry under the Act of Settlement in 1667. In 1867, the rental of lands in the barony of Clanmaurice, belonging to Thomas Roche Rice, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. The rental of lands held on lease from Stephen Edward Rice by John Murphy was offered for sale in May of the same year.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bushmount | Knockercreeveen | Rattoo | Listowel | Drommartin 102 | Clanmaurice | Kerry |
OSI Ref: Q851320
OS Sheet: 9 Discovery map: 63 |
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| Milford/Millview | Balinbranhig | Rattoo | Listowel | Dromartin 102 | Clanmaurice | Kerry |
OSI Ref: Q858334
OS Sheet: 9 Discovery map: 63 |
Archival sources
- Copy of confirmation of arms to descendents of Justice Dominick Rice of Bushmount, 1912. Genealogical Office Ms.111a, 91. ; National Library of Ireland
- Pedigree of Rice of Ballingolin [later Burnham], county Kerry, c.1540-1797. Genealogical Office Ms.161, 71. ; National Library of Ireland
- Pedigree of Rice of Dingle and Ballymacdoyle, county Kerry & Nantes, France, 1613-1766. Genealogical Office Ms.165, 23-26. ; National Library of Ireland
- Pedigree of Rice of Ballymacdoyle, county Kerry, c.1650-1771. Genealogical Office Ms.164, 99. ; National Library of Ireland
- Survey of lands of Thomas Rice at Ballymacdoyle and Knockeen, Dingle. 1758. 21 F 75(6); National Library of Ireland
- Copies of correspondence of Stephen Edward Rice and summary of rents of Coolkeragh, 1806-23. Ms.605 F. ; National Library of Ireland
- Wills of the Rice family of Tralee & Mount Trenchard, 1806, 1832. Longfield, Kelly & Armstrong solicitors' collection, Small Accessions Index 47, T.3358-3360; National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Rice, 12 March 1867, Vol 84, MRGS 39/041, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Murphy, 3 May 1867, Vol 85, MRGS 39/041, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Trant Papers, include documents re the Rice family, 1606-1911. Collection List A14, MSS 31,554-31,645 & D 27,807-27,890; National Library of Ireland
- Mrs A. Kelly Collection, includes rental of such parts of the estate of William Lock in Co Kerry, agent Thomas & Stephen Edward Rice, 1801-1802. Small Accs Index 1/671(20); National Archives of Ireland
- Trant Papers, estate and family papers of the Trant family of Cos Kerry, Cork, Limerick & Tipperary, 1606-1911, includes references to this family. Collection List 14, MSS 31,554-31,645 & D 27,807-27,890 ; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- 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] : 387
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 144
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Clanmaurice Barony: 151 (Ballinbranhig), 157 (Knockercreeveen)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.II, 510 (Rattoo 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 : 47 (Ballymaquin)
- SMITH, Charles. ''The ancient and present state of the county of Kerry. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical and topographical description thereof.'' Dublin: 1774. : 58, 63.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 272
Modern printed sources
- Bary, Valerie. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes of some Houses of Kerry'' Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1994. : 57 (Bushmount)
- ''The Irish Genealogist'': O'CONNELL, Basil. The Nagles of Mount Nagle. II No 12 (1955), 377-389 (include information re the Rice family of Co Kerry)
- ''The Irish Genealogist'': CHAMNEY, Anne R. Extracts from Father Clare’s Annotations to the Conformity Rolls, include reference to this family. X (2001), 427-454