Tottenham

The Tottenham family's main properties were based in Leinster, especially in the counties of Wicklow and Wexford. However, they also held property in Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo and Waterford. In 1802 McParlan recorded Mr. Tottenham as a non-resident proprietor in county Leitrim. The main house was at Glenfarne but the family also held property at Glenade. Members of the family served as High Sheriffs of Leitrim on six occasions in the nineteenth century between 1820-1898. The estate in county Leitrim amounted to over 14,500 acres in the 1870s. Almost 6000 acres was offered for sale in the Land Judges' Court in 1878 and 1883. In 1766 Charles Tottenham of New Ross, county Wexford, brother of Nicholas Loftus Tottenham of Glenfarne, married Frances Boswell, daughter and heiress of Robert Boswell of Ballycurry, county Wicklow. Frances Boswell owned land in the parish of Kilronan, barony of Boyle, county Roscommon and in the parishes of Ahamlish and Drumrat, county Sligo, in the 18th century. In 1814 Charles Tottenham of Glenfarne married Dorothea, daughter and heiress of George Crowe of Nutfield, county Clare. Dorothea Tottenham held land in the parishes of Templemaley, barony of Bunratty Upper and Tulla, barony of Tulla Upper, county Clare, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In May 1855, Arthur Loftus Tottenham, a minor, offered for sale his lands in the barony of Gaultiere, county Waterford, amounting to 140 acres. The Freeman's Journal reported that it was purchased by Mr. Walsh for over £1000.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Glenfarne Hall	Ardmoneen	Clooneclare	Manorhamilton	Glenfarne 52	Dromahaire	Leitrim	OSI Ref: H018386 OS Sheet: 13 Discovery map: 26
Glenade House [Largydonnell]	Largydonnell	Rossinver	Ballyshannon	Aghanlish 2	Rosclogher	Leitrim	OSI Ref: G802515 OS Sheet: 4 Discovery map: 16
Brookfield House	Cherrybrook	Clooneclare	Manorhamilton	Kiltyclogher 58	Rosclogher	Leitrim	OSI Ref: G913398 OS Sheet: 8, 12 Discovery map: 16
Mount Callan	Ballynoe	Inagh	Ennistimon	Formoyle 54	Inchiquin	Clare	OSI Ref: R165 774 OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 57
Finned (Tireragh)	Finned	Easky	Dromore West	Easky West	Tireragh	Sligo	OSI Ref: G348384 OS Sheet: 11 Discovery map: 24

Archival sources

Rentals of Tottenham (& Langley, Thompson) estates in parish of Ballysumaghan, 1850. F.C./D.4/18. ; Sligo County Library
Contact National Library of Ireland; Private Possession
Maps of the estate of Nicholas Loftus Tottenham, 1797. Ms.9837. ; National Library of Ireland
Rental of estate of Ponsonby Tottenham, 1803. Ms.10, 162. ; National Library of Ireland
Map of Tottenham estate, barony of Tireragh, county Sligo. 16 I 10. ; National Library of Ireland
Map of Upper & Lower Finnod, parish of Easky, esate of Charles Tottenham, 1801. 16 I 16. ; National Library of Ireland
Papers relating to Tottenham estate at Castletehin, county Roscommon, 18th-19th century. Hoey & Denning collection. Small Accs. Index 99 ; National Archives of Ireland
Irish Tourist Association. Topographical and General Survey, 1941-1945. Parish of Cloonclare. File 131. ; Leitrim County Library
National Archives documents relating to Tottenham estate in Rossinver parish. File 192. ; Leitrim County Library
Rent ledger of estate of Frances Boswell in the parish of Kilronan, Co Roscommon and Ahamlish and Drumrat, Co Sligo. Microfilm copy P.4937; National Library of Ireland
Landed Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Tottenham, 29 November 1878, Vol 134, MRGS 39/060, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Landed Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Tottenham, 20 July 1883, Vol 145, MRGS 39/064, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Mount Callan Papers, account of the Mount Callan estate & its occupiers 1837-1923, continued from Col Synge’s account by R. G. Tottenham, Mount Callan, Inagh. Microfilm P 4910; National Library of Ireland
Longfield Maps, surveys of the lands of Maghry [Cappahard], Thiernaderry [Derry] & Faunriss[Faunrusk], parish of Templemaley, barony of Bunratty, county Clare, estate of C.H. Tottenham, 1815. 21 F. 32 (31-32); National Library of Ireland
Longfield Maps, survey of lands of Doonane & Drummaghmartin, barony of Tulla, county Clare, estate of Tottenham esq, let to Henry Molony, 1815. 21 F. 32 (36); National Library of Ireland
Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue B, includes items re Tottenham family (Ingram trustee) including a rentcharge on the Glenfarne estate in county Leitrim, Ireland, 29 & 30 Brunswick Square, Hove, and an estate in county Tipperary, Ireland, 1893-1895. Part of AMS2968-3006 ; East Sussex Record Office
Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Tottenham, 4 May 1855, Vol 2634, MRGS 39/016, (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] : 447
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 178 (Watrerford), 306 (Leitrim), 323 (Roscommon)
ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Sligo: 359
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Manorhamilton Union, 2. Ballyshannon Union, 33.
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol I, 352.
ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Leitrim: Vol Ii, 541.
McPARLAN, James. ''Statistical Survey of the county of Leitrim''. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1802. : 110.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 218 (Ballynoe)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Dromore West Union, 5 (Finned)
SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxvii & 84 (Glenade)

Modern printed sources

BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1912: 698
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Supplementary report on the Tottenham papers. N..311.
Ó DUIGNEÁIN, P. ''North Leitrim in Famine times''. Manorhamilton: Drumlin Publications, 1986. : 12
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Supplementary report on the Tottenham papers. No. 51
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Tottenham papers froms 1663. No. 182.
DAY, Angélique & McWILLIAMS, Patrick (eds). ''Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland; counties of South Ulster''. Belfast: Inst. of Irish Studies, 1998. : 50
MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 1109-1114.
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Supplementary report on the Tottenham papers, No. 386.
''Breifne'': Mac an GHALLOGLAIGH, Domhnall. The Land League in Leitrim, 1879-1883. VI, 22 (1983-84), 161-168.
Ó RUNAÍ, Lorcan. ''From Rosclogher to Rooskey: the Leitrim story'' [n.p]: Cumann Seanchas Ros Inbhir, 1996: 207-209.
''Breifne'': GRIMES, Seamus. The changing rural landscape of North Leitrim from the mid-17th to the mid-20th century. III, 11 (1968), 340-346.
HARRISON, A (compiler).'' A roll of all gentlemen....High Sheriffs, MPs & other officers of county Leitrim, 1600-1909.'' Carrick-on-Shannon: printed by P. Brennan, 1910. : 9-14.
KAVANAGH, Art & MURPHY, Rory. ''Wexford Gentry''. Vols. 1 & 2. Bunclody: Irish Family Names, 1994. : Vol. II. Tottenham of Tottenham Green, 200-215.
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 212 (Mount Callan)
McTERNAN, John C. ''Sligo: the light of bygone days, Vol.I Houses of Sligo and associated families''. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. : 334-335 (Finned)
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Special Lists.: Summary Catalogue of material in deed boxes in the strong room of McGillicuddy, Darley & Orpen, solicitors, Kildare St, Dublin, include records re Tottenham estates. Special List 350
''Freeman's Journal'': Incumbered Estates Court sale reports, 2 May 1855, p.4.
GLENFARNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. ''Glenfarne: a history''. Glenfarne, county Leitrim: Glenfarne Historical Society, 2014. : White, Frank. The history of the Tottenham estate of Glenfarne. pp.17-28.