O'Brien (Ennistymon)
This branch of the O'Briens were descended from Sir Donnagh O'Brien of Duagh of Elizabethan times. In 1682 Donnogh O'Bryen of Dough, county Clare, was granted lands in the baronies of Corcomroe, Burren and Inchiquin, amounting to over 5,000 acres. Edward O'Brien of Ennistymon, county Clare, married Susanna daughter of Henry O'Brien of Balliclogh and had a son Christopher who had 4 sons all of whom died without heirs. Christopher's sister Anne married the Honourable Matthias Finucane and their daughter Susanna married William Macnamara of Doolin. The Ballycorick estate, 2081 acres in the barony of Island, of Christopher O'Brien the elder , Christopher O'Brien the younger, and their trustees Thomas Blair Hutheaite and Patrick David Jeffers, was offered for sale in July 1853.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ennistimon House | Castlequarter | Kilmanaheen | Ennistimon | Ennistimon 48 | Corcomroe | Clare |
OSI Ref: R127 885
OS Sheet: 15 Discovery map: 57 |
|
Archival sources
- Large collection of solicitors' records including documents re the O'Brien family of Ennistimon, 18th-19th centuries. E.J.French solicitor's collection, Small Accessions Index 8; National Archives of Ireland
- Genealogy of the family of O’Brien of Ennistymon House in Irish & English, compiled by Michael O’Reilly, c 1800. GO MS 559; National Library of Ireland
- Inchiquin Papers, includes records re the O'Briens of Dough & Ennistymon, 16th-18th centuries. Collection List 143. MSS 45,684/6-7 & MSS 45,693-45,698; National Library of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (Burke), O'Brien, 15 July 1853, Vol 35 ; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 274
- 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: 205
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 150 (Innistymond)
Modern printed sources
- ''North Munster Antiquarian Journal'': MCNAMARA, Leo. ''The Diary of an Eighteenth Century Gentleman''. XXIII (1981), 25-65
- WEIR, Hugh W. L. ''Historical, Genealogical and Architectural notes on some Houses of Clare''. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1999. : 118-119
- ''The Irish Genealogist'': O’BRIEN, P.I.D. The O’Briens of Dough and Ennistymon. VI (1983-1985), 556-564