Molyneux (Co Limerick)
The Molyneux family settled at Castle Dillon in county Armagh in the 17th century. Thomas Molyneux, physician general to the army was created a baronet in 1730. His father Samuel Molyneux was granted over a thousand acres in the barony of Clanwilliam, county Limerick in 1666. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Sir Capel Molyneux held an estate in county Limerick in the parishes of Killeenagarriff, Stradbally and Clonkeen, barony of Clanwilliam. In the 1870s his county Limerick estate amounted to 1,388 acres. He also owned 5,463 acres in Queen's county (Laois), 3,416 acres in county Armagh and 2,426 acres in county Kildare.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Domvile Papers: documents re the Molyneux estate in Cos Armagh, Kildare, Leix, Dublin & Limerick, 19th century. MS 11,786; National Library of Ireland
- Testamentary Papers of Sir Capel Molyneux, 1813. D4021; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Conveyance of Ballinvrinny [Ballinvreena, barony of Coshlea], Sir Capel Molyneux to Godfrey Lill 13th Oct 1778. LM1999.0029; Limerick City Museum
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 151
- 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] : 320
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 78