Biggs (Bellevue)
Samuel Dixon [Dickson] Biggs held three townlands in the parish of Killeenagarriff, barony of Clanwilliam and two townlands in the parish of Ballingarry, barony of Connello Upper, county Limerick, at the the time of Griffith's Valuation. His county Tipperary estate was in the parishes of Kilbarron, Loughkeen and Terryglass, barony of Lower Ormond, county Tipperary. The representatives of Mrs Biggs also held land in the parish of Bruree, barony of Coshma, county Limerick. The Biggs were a county Tipperary family. In 1807 George Washington Biggs of Bellevue, county Tipperary, married Anne, daughter of Samuel Dickson of Ballynaguile, county Limerick. Samuel Dickson Biggs was their second son. He owned 557 acres in county Limerick and 1,075 acres in county Tipperary in the 1870s while his younger brother, Stephen Dickson Biggs, owned 1,117 acres in county Limerick.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Lickadoon | Lickadoon | Caheravally | Limerick | Roxborough 57 | Clanwilliam | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R596 507
OS Sheet: 13 Discovery map: 65 |
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| Bellevue | Bellevue | Kilbarron | Borrisokane | Kilbarron 10 | Lower Ormond | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R810 946
OS Sheet: 9 Discovery map: 53 |
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| Ashleypark | Ashleypark | Cloghprior | Nenagh | Ardcrony 83 | Lower Ormond | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R879 861
OS Sheet: 15 Discovery map: 59 |
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Archival sources
- Irish Tourist Association Survey file for parish of Donaghmore, barony of Clanwilliam, 1942. Limerick North East 12 ; Limerick Studies Department, Dooradoyle
- Irish Tourist Association Survey file, early 1940s, North Tipperary No. 12 (Bellevue); Tipperary Studies Research Library (Archives), Thurles
Contemporary printed sources
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, county Limerick: II, 72 (Lickadoon)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 146, 158
- 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] : 33
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Clanwilliam, 14 (Lickadoon)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 120
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Lower Ormond, 62 (Bellevue)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 67 (Belview)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 49 (Belview)
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Tipperary: Vol.IV, Parish of Kilbarron, p.175
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1912: 18
- O'BRIEN, Bridie. ''How We Were - in the parish of Kilbarron-Terryglass Co Tipperary''. Nenagh: Relay Books, 1999: 134-144
- GRACE, Daniel. ''Portrait of a Parish, Monsea & Killodiernan, Co Tipperary''. Nenagh: Relay Books, 1996: 112-117