Kane (Dublin)
Sir Robert Kane, President of the Royal Irish Academy, President of Queen's College, Cork and a Commissioner of National Education was the son of John Kane of Dublin. In the 1870s he is recorded as the owner of 2,539 acres in county Clare. He became entitled to a charge on the lands of Glendree, parish of Tulla, barony of Tulla Upper, set up by Sir Joseph Peacock in 1811. In July 1862 Edward Acton Gibbon assignee of William Halpin advertised the sale of the lands of Glandree. The Halpin interest was sold to Mr Smith for £520. Evelyn Henry Frederick Pocklington also held an interest in these lands.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (Dunboyne), Gibbon & Halpin, 1 July 1862, Vol 27, 73-78, (with note re purchaser) ; James Hardiman Library, University of Galway
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Gibbon & Halpin, 1 July 1862, Vol 66 (2), MRGS 39/033, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives 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] : 242
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 110