Fitzmaurice (Earl of Kerry)
Thomas Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry (1668 - 16 March 1741), was the son of William FitzMaurice, 20th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw. He married Anne Petty, the daughter of scientist and philosopher Sir William Petty and Elizabeth Waller, Baroness Shelburne, in 1692. The 1st Earl of Kerry had two younger brothers, William of Gallane, county Kerry, ancestor of the Fitzmaurices of Springfield Castle, county Limerick and John who had an only child Anne who married her cousin of Springfield Castle. In 1703 William Fitzmaurice of Gullane, county Kerry, bought the estate of Sir John FitzGerald in the barony of Connello, county Limerick for £5,008. Francis, the 3rd Earl of Kerry was mostly an absentee landlord, his estates being administered by agents including Christopher Julian. Dickson writes that he sold much of his Kerry estates to Richard Hare in the 1780s. With his death in 1818 the connection between the Earls of Kerry and Lixnaw came to an end. The title was inherited by the Marquis of Lansdowne of Derreen, county Kerry who owned 1,526 acres in county Limerick in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Derreen | Derreen | Tuosist | Kenmare | Ardea 54 | Glanarought | Kerry |
OSI Ref: V772587
OS Sheet: 108 Discovery map: 84 |
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| Springfield Castle | Springfield | Killagholehane | Newcastle | Broadford 104 | Glenquin | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R349 227
OS Sheet: 54 Discovery map: 72 |
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| Old Court [Lixnaw House] | Lixnaw | Kilcaragh | Listowel | Clanmaurice | Kerry |
OSI Ref: Q891291
OS Sheet: 15 Discovery map: 63 |
![Photo of Old Court [Lixnaw House]](https://landedestates.ie/storage/img/orig/2854.jpg)
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Archival sources
- Papers relating to the family of T. Fitzmaurice, the Earl of Kerry. Fonds. T. Cote (1-3, 8), 18th century. [Microfilm copies at National Library of Ireland N.1087-8, P.176-7, n.6388-6392, P.7392-7396]; Archives Nationales, Paris
- Rental of the Locke estate [formerly the estate of the Earl of Kerry], 1801 & 1824. M.3284, M3286. ; National Archives of Ireland
- Survey of the estates of the Earl of Kerry, 1762-63. Additional Ms. 17,507. Copy at National Library of Ireland, n.779, p.505. ; British Library
- Case of Thomas, Lord Kerry, v Henry Munroe, relating to lands at Knocklegane, parish of Duagh, county Kerry, 1711. House of Lords Mss. IX (1949), 96. ; King's Inn Library
- Copy of a survey of the estate of Thomas, Lord Kerry, in the baronies of Clanmaurice, Iraghticonnor & Trughanacmy, 18th century. Ms.U/121/1; University College Cork, Boole Library Archives
- Irish Tourist Association Survey file for parishes of Dromcollogher & Broadford, Barony of Glenquin & of Dromcollogher, barony of Connello Upper, 1944. Limerick West 7 & 11; Limerick Studies Department, Dooradoyle
- Irish Tourist Association Survey, 1942-43: Parish of Lixnaw (Old Court); Kerry Library, Local History & Archives Section
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 150
- 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] : 260
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix III. Abstracts of the conveyances from the trustees of the Forfeited Estates and Interests in Ireland in 1688'.: 349
Modern printed sources
- BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 189 (Lixnaw)
- ''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: BOURKE, M.J. The Fitzmaurices – Lords of Kerry. XXVI, 2nd Series (1920), 10-18
- DICKSON, David. ''Old World Colony: Cork and south Munster 1630-1830'' Cork: Cork University Press, 2005. : 79
- Oidhreacht Leac Snámha. ''The Fitzmaurices: Lords of Kerry and Barons of Lixnaw.'' Lixnaw, county Kerry: Oidhreacht Leac Snámha, [n.d]: All
- ''The Old Kerry Journal'': GRIFFIN, Tim. North Kerry's unique monument. II (2008), pp.31-34.
- ''Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society'': KNIGHTLY, John. Lixnaw and the Earls of Kerry. Ser.2, X (2010), pp. 33-89.
- Bary, Valerie. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes of some Houses of Kerry'' Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1994. : p.174 (Lixnaw Old Court)