Massy (Glenville)
The Massys of Glenville, county Limerick, are descended from younger sons of the Massys of Duntrileague and Stoneville. John Massy (c1720-1812), Treasurer of Limerick, bought Glenville in 1763 and the property remained in the possession of his Massy and Langford descendants in the 20th century. In the early 1850s William Massy held 3 townlands in the parish of Ardagh and 1 townland in the parish of Kilfergus, barony of Shanid. The Glenville estate amounted to 716 acres in the 1870s. 1100 acres of William Massy's estate in the barony of Trughanacmy, county Kerry was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in 1854 as well as the lands of Glenville and elsewhere in the barony of Connelloe, county Limerick. These were bought by William's uncle Eyre Massy of Glanduff. In the 1830s, the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books record John Massy of Glenville as the owner of townlands in the parish of Castleisland, county Kerry.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Glenville | Glenville | Rathronan | Newcastle | Ardagh 97 | Shanid | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R277 397
OS Sheet: 28 Discovery map: 64 |
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| Glenduff Castle | Glenduff | Monagay | Newcastle | Mountplummer 108 | Glenquin | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R303 217
OS Sheet: 53 Discovery map: 72 |
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| St Kevinsfort | Liskeveen | Ballymurreen | Thurles | Ballymurreen | Eliogarty | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: S172 527
OS Sheet: 48 Discovery map: 66 |
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Archival sources
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Massy, 30 November 1854, Vol 32, MRGS 39/0014, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Heytesbury Papers, including title deeds, leases, maps & surveys re the Irish estates of the Holmes family in Limerick, Waterford & Wicklow, with references to Coote of Ash Hill & Mount Coote, 17th-20th centuries, with references to Massy of Glenville. JER/HBY/; Isle of Wight Record Office
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Shanid, 75; Barony of Glenquin, 83 (Glenduff)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 151
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 387 & 426 (Glenduff), 508 (Glenville)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 201
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, county Limerick: V, 350 (Glenville)
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS County Kerry: Vol.I, Castleisland Parish, 343.
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Eliogarty, 6 (Liskeveen)
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Tipperary: Vol.I, Parish of Ballymurreen, p.272