De Burgho (Castleconnell)
Lewis wrote that the Bourkes were connected with the parish of Stradbally from the 12th century. This family share a common ancestry with the Bourkes of Thornfield, Lisnagry, county Limerick. Richard Bourke, son of John Bourke and his second wife, Mary Donellan, assumed the name De Burgho and was created a baronet in 1785. By his second wife ,Elizabeth Dwyer, he had two sons, Richard and John Allen, who succeeded as 2nd and 3rd baronets. Sir Richard Donellan de Burgho, 4th baronet, was the only son of Sir John and his wife Anne Waller of Castle Waller and when he died in 1873 the title became extinct. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the De Burghos held at least ten townlands in the parish of Stradbally including most of the town of Castleconnell. They also held land in the parish of Tuogh, barony of Owneybeg, including Dromsallagh, where the Bourke family had lived in the early 18th century. Lady De Burgho of Castleconnell (Catherine Brazier of Rivers, county Limerick) owned 3,844 acres in county Limerick and 372 acres in county Wexford in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Island House | Cloon & Commons | Stradbally | Limerick | Castleconnell 47 | Clanwilliam | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R660 627
OS Sheet: 1 Discovery map: 58 |
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| Stormont | Coolbane | Stradbally | Limerick | Castleconnell 47 | Clanwilliam | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R660 626
OS Sheet: 1 Discovery map: 58 |
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| Worldsend | Lacka | Stradbally | Limerick | Castleconnell 47 | Clanwilliam | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R659 637
OS Sheet: 1 Discovery map: 58 |
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| Fairymount | Montpelier | Stradbally | Limerick | Castleconnell 47 | Clanwilliam | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R672 665
OS Sheet: 1 Discovery map: 58 |
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| Prospect | Prospect | Stradbally | Limerick | Ballyvarra 46 | Clanwilliam | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R643 607
OS Sheet: 6 Discovery map: 58 |
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Archival sources
- Rental of Sir John Allen de Burgo re lands in Co Limerick 1833-1834, with some family letters, 1811-1820. MS 7878 ; National Library of Ireland
- Land Judges Sale Rental, De Burgho & Wallis, lands at Castleconnell, 61 lots, 26 June 1896. LM1996.0016; Limerick City Museum
- O'Connor & Dudley, solicitors collection, contains many documents relating to the de Burgho family of Co Limerick & associated families of Bourke of Drumsally, Frewen, Osborne, Dwyer, Powell, Gabbett etc, mainly concerning the compiling of abstract of title to de Burgho estate in 1879, 17th-19th centuries. Small Accs Index 66; National Archives of Ireland
- W.B. Scott, solicitor's collection, includes marriage settlement of Sir Richard D. De Burgho & Catherine Frances Brasier, Bally Ellis, Co Cork, 1844. Small Accs Index 76, D.9767; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 148
- 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] : 121
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Clanwilliam, 118 (Cloon & Commons), 119 (Coolbane), 126 (Lacka), 131 (Montpelier)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 181 (Fairyhall), 362 (Storm-mount), 322 (Prospect), 393 (World's-end)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 293
- SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxviii, 160 (The Island)
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 161 (Park), 173 (Fairy-hall, Murray)
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.124