Landed Estates
University of Galway

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.

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