Landed Estates
University of Galway

Shine (Ballymacreese)

In the 1870s Jeremiah Shine of Ballymacreese, county Limerick, owned 699 acres in county Clare and 79 acres in county Limerick. James Hickman Shine owned over 300 acres of untenated land at Ballycannon in the rural district of Limerick, county Clare in 1906.

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Ballymacreese Ballymacreese Ludden Limerick Ballybricken 48 Clanwilliam Limerick OSI Ref: R635 493
OS Sheet: 14
Discovery map: 65
Photo of Ballymacreese
Coolyhenan House Coolyhenan Clonkeen Limerick Ballysimon 45 Clanwilliam Limerick OSI Ref: R626 540
OS Sheet: 14
Discovery map: 65
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Archival sources

  • Papers of Barry family of Springvale, Ballyneety, Co Limerick & Leamlara, Co Cork, mainly relating to the Sandville branch of the Barry family & the activities of James Grene Barry, includes 5 documents re the Shine family of Coolyhenan, mainly 19th century. P20 ; University of Limerick: Special Collections and Information Services, Glucksman Library

Contemporary printed sources