Landed Estates
University of Galway

Hickman (Kilmore)

By his second marriage Gregory Hickman, merchant of Hamburgh, had three sons. The eldest, Walter, founded the Kilmore branch of the family. Walter Hickman of Kilmore, parish of Killimer, barony of Clonderalaw, county Clare, had a son Henry who married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Poole of Poole Hall, Devon. Henry and Margaret had three sons, Poole, Henry and William. Margaret Hickman died in 1707. A descendant of one of these sons, Poole Hickman of Kilmore, married Letitia Browne of New Grove. He was High Sheriff of county Clare in 1782. They had a son Poole (1783-1842) and three daughters Letitia, Anne (Browne) and Mary (O’Dwyer). Anne Hickman married her first cousin, Edmond Browne of New Grove, in 1798. In 1824, Mary Browne, daughter of Edmond and Anne Browne, married Francis Gore and their descendants eventually inherited the Hickman estate by the will of Anne’s brother, Poole Hickman, who died in 1842. He was succeeded by his sister, Letitia Hickman, who held an estate comprised of at least nine townlands in the parishes of Killimer and Kilmurry at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. The sale rental of the Kilmore estate dated January 1852 shows that the estate had been much larger, consisting of over 18 townlands and amounting to about 4,800 Irish acres. Marcus Keane bought about 1,000 acres of this estate at Enogh, barony of Moyarta. The Freeman's Journal provides details of the purchasers of other lots though the sale of some was adjourned due to insufficient bidding. Letitia Hickman died in 1861. The following website gives a history of the Hickman family and Kilmore House: http://www.markhams-of-derryguiha.com/id24.html.

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Kilmore Kilmore Kilmurry Kilrush Knock 98 Clonderalaw Clare OSI Ref: R110 542
OS Sheet: 68
Discovery map: 64 		Photo of Kilmore
Woodlawn House Kilmore Kilmurry Kilrush Knock 98 Clonderalaw Clare OSI Ref: R100 541
OS Sheet: 68
Discovery map: 64 		Photo of Woodlawn House
Oaklands Knock Kilmurry Kilrush Knock 98 Clonderalaw Clare OSI Ref: R095 538
OS Sheet: 68
Discovery map: 64
Doonnagurroge Castle Doonnagurroge Killimer Kilrush Killimer 101 Clonderalaw Clare OSI Ref: R053 533
OS Sheet: 67
Discovery map: 64 		Photo of Doonnagurroge Castle
Besborough Poulnadarree Killimer Kilrush Killimer 101 Clonderalaw Clare OSI Ref: R060 522
OS Sheet: 68
Discovery map: 64
Lotabeg Lotabeg Rathcooney Cork Rathcooney 110 Cork Cork OSI Ref: W714 727
OS Sheet: 74
Discovery map: 87

Archival sources

  • Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Hickman, 22 Jan 1852, Vol 13 (22), 22 Apr 1852, Vol 14 (52), MRGS 39/006, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (Dunboyne), Hickman, 22 Jan 1852, Vol 2, 69-; James Hardiman Library, University of Galway
  • Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Keane, 9 Apr 1850, Vol 1 (6), MRGS 39/001, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

Modern printed sources