Hill (Mountpleasant)
This county Limerick family were a junior branch of the Hills of Graig, near Doneraile, county Cork. In the late 17th century William Hill married Anne Coke. Their sixth son Samuel Hill settled at Pallaskenry, county Limerick and married a Lucas of Ballingaddy, county Clare. Their second son was Thomas Hill of Mount Pleasant. Thomas had three sons Arundel of Bolane Cottage, Thomas of Mount Pleasant and George of Limerick. In the early 1850s Thomas Hill was leasing a house and the whole townland of Mountpleasant, parish of Ardcanny, barony of Kenry, county Limerick, amounting to 172 acres from Daniel Leahy.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Mount Pleasant | Mountpleasant | Ardcanny | Rathkeale | Ballynacarriga 124 | Kenry | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R438 562
OS Sheet: 4 Discovery map: 65 |
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| Ballynacarriga | Ballynacarriga | Ardcanny | Rathkeale | Ballynacarriga 124 | Shanid | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R443 556
OS Sheet: 4 Discovery map: 65 |
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| Bolane | Bolane | Kildimo | Rathkeale | Kildimon 127 | Kenry | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R439 533
OS Sheet: 12 Discovery map: 65 |
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Archival sources
- De Lacy Smith Collection, rental of estates in barony of Kenry, Richard, Samuel & Arundel Hill, 1740-1744. MS 869 ; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Kenry, 9 (Mountpleasant)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 43 (Mount Pleasant), II, 87 (Bollane Cottage)
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, county Limerick: I, 145-146
- FITZGERALD, Rev P. & MCGREGOR, J.J. ''The history, topography and antiquities of the county and city of Limerick''. Dublin: 1826, republished Limerick: O'Brien Book Publications,1999: 358