Gabbett (Highpark)
A junior branch of the Gabbetts of Caherline, near Limerick city, founded by Joseph Gabbett, third son of William Gabbett and Dorothea de Burgh, who married in 1730. Joseph Gabbett succeeded to the High Park estate of his great uncle, Joseph Gabbett, and to the Sparsholt estate in Berkshire of his uncle, Lieutenant General Joseph Gabbett, who had married the daughter and heiress of Seymour Richmond of Sparsholt. Joseph Gabbett married Mary Lloyd of Castle Lloyd and their three sons, Joseph, William and Thomas, held land in the parish of Caherconlish, barony of Clanwilliam, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In 1832 their granddaughter, Lucy Caroline, married William Smith O'Brien of Cahirmoyle, county Limerick, a brother of Lord Inchiquin and a political activist. In April 1872 the estate of the Reverend Joseph Gabbett and Joseph Gabbett the younger at High Park, a total of 723 acres, was advertised for sale. Captain Charles D. Gabbett was the tenant of Highpark at the time. Much of the property was purchased in trust by Mr. Fry including one portion on behalf of Reverend Joseph Gabbett. The Reverend Robert Gabbett of The Vicarage, Foynes, owned over 500 acres in county Limerick in the 1870s. However, Bateman, writing in the 1880s, states that Reverend Joseph Gabbett of Ardmullen, Kilmallock, county Limerick, owned over 3,500 acres in that county as well as land in county Tipperary.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Highpark | Highpark | Caherconlish | Limerick | Caherconlish West 50 | Clanwilliam | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R660 515
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 65 |
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| Ballyvorneen | Ballyvorneen | Caherconlish | Limerick | Kilmurry 52 | Clanwilliam | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R699 469
OS Sheet: 23 Discovery map: 65 |
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| Lodge | Lodge | Killodiernan | Nenagh | Knigh 86 | Lower Ormond | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R844 875
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 59 |
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| Prospect | Prospect East | Cloghprior | Nenagh | Knigh 86 | Lower Ormond | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R861 875
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 59 |
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Archival sources
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Gabbett, 26 Apr 1872, Vol 105 (57), MRGS 39/049, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Sale of Lodge, Barry to Gabbett, 1766. ROD 437.247.282678; Registry of Deeds
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Clanwilliam, 19 (Ballyvorneen), 27 (Highpark)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 149
- 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] : 173
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, county Limerick: II, 26 (High Park)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Lower Ormond, 73 (Lodge)
- TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 196 (Prospect)
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.178
Modern printed sources
- MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 455-458
- GRACE, Daniel. ''Portrait of a Parish, Monsea & Killodiernan, Co Tipperary''. Nenagh: Relay Books, 1996: 131-132
- ''Irish Times'': Landed Estates Court sale reports, 27 April 1872, p.6