Browne (Newgrove)
The Brownes were Elizabethan settlers. In 1765 Thomas Browne of Newgrove married Mary Wesby and had three sons, Edmund, William and Thomas. Edmund married Anne Hickman of Kilmore in 1798 and had a son and two daughters, one of whom, Mary, married Francis Gore. Their son died young and was succeeded by his uncle Thomas in 1813. The following year Thomas Browne married Elizabeth Comyn. They had no children and when Elizabeth died in 1864 the estate was inherited by Wyndham Brady, a grandson of Thomas's sister Mary who had married Henry Brady of Raheens. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Browne estate was centred on the parishes of Feakle and Tulla, barony of Tulla Upper, but the Brownes also had land in the parishes of Clooney, Inchicronan, Quin, in the barony of Bunratty Upper and in the parishes of Abbey and Oughtmama in the barony of Burren.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newgrove | Ballyslattery or Newgrove | Tulla | Tulla | Newgrove 144 | Tulla Upper | Clare |
OSI Ref: R451 807
OS Sheet: 34 Discovery map: 58 |
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| Tyredagh Castle | Tyredagh Lower | Tulla | Tulla | Newgrove 144 | Tulla Upper | Clare |
OSI Ref: R457 820
OS Sheet: 27 Discovery map: 58 |
Archival sources
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (Dunboyne), Browne, Arthur & Sexton, 26 June 1860, Vol 29, 125-136; James Hardiman Library, University of Galway
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Browne, Arthur & Sexton, 26 June 1860, Vol 59 (52) MRGS 39/030, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Hunt & De Vere Family of Currahchase, Co Limerick Papers, include correspondence between members of the Browne family of Newgrove, 1755-1767. P22; Limerick City Archives
- Leases, correspondence & other papers, re mines in Cos Clare & Tipperary, George Pleydell Wilton, solicitor, London, C.L. Barnwell, E.Pycroft & Browne of Newgrove, Smith of Moyrisk, Westropp of Cacker, Stafford O'Brien, 1850s. 999/313; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Tulla Union, 60 (Newgrove)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 649-650
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 307 (Newgrove), 372 (Tiereda-castle)
- TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 102 (Newgrove)
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.61
Modern printed sources
- ''Jnl. of the Association for the Preservation of Memorials to the Dead''.: Tulla Parish, III (3), (1894)
- WEIR, Hugh W. L. ''Historical, Genealogical and Architectural notes on some Houses of Clare''. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1999. : 206
- BURKE, John & BURKE, John Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Henry Colburn, 1847: 148-149 (Browne of Newgrove)
- ''The Other Clare'': SHAW, Eric. The Brady Browne Family of Newgrove, Tulla, Co Clare. VIII (1984), 5-6
- GLIN, Knight of, GRIFFIN, D. J. & ROBINSON, N.K (eds).'' Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland''. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive/Irish Georgian Society, 1989. : 41 (New Grove), 42 (Tyredagh)