Goff
This family were descended from the Goff family of Kingstown, Dublin who had married into the Caulfield family. In 1828 Robert Goff was a member of the Grand Panel of county Roscommon. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Goff estate included the demesne at Oakport, near Boyle. In 1863 Oakport demesne and other lands were advertised for sale in the Landed Estates' Court. A lithograph of the house is included in the sale rental. Later the main family seat was at Carrowroe House, parish of Roscommon. The family also held townlands in the parish of Baslick, barony of Castlerea, Kilbride, barony of Ballintober South and Killukin, barony of Roscommon. In the 1870s three Goff brothers owned about 9,000 acres in county Roscommon. Over 1,200 acres belonging to Thomas C. E. Goff were vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 17 June 1912 and 560 acres belonging to James C. Goff on 31 Mar 1915.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakport | Oakport Demesne | Ardcarn | Boyle | Oakport 35 | Boyle | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: G879037
OS Sheet: 6 Discovery map: 33 |
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| Carrowroe Park | Carrowroe | Roscommon | Roscommon | Roscommon Rural 90 | Ballintober South | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: M894 633
OS Sheet: 40 Discovery map: 40 |
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| Ashfort House | Knocknagowna | Kilmore | Carrick on Shannon | Kilmore 52 | Ballintober North | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: M955 926
OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 33 |
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| Derrane House | Derrane | Kilbride | Roscommon | Kilbride South 84 | Ballintober South | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: M883 685
OS Sheet: 35 Discovery map: 40 |
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| Roxborough | Roxborough | Kilbride | Roscommon | Roscommon Rural 90 | Ballintober South | Roscommon |
OSI Ref: M883 676
OS Sheet: 39 Discovery map: 40 |
Archival sources
- Local History File - Goff; Roscommon County Library
- Carrowroe Park photos. 013/054; Irish Architectural Archive
- Baker, Ringwood & Gordon, solicitors' collection, includes miscellaneous documents re the sale of T.C.E. Goff's Co Roscommon estate, 1905-1906. Small Accs. Index 105, M.3851; National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Goff, 7 July 1863, Vol 69, MRGS 39/034, (microfilm copy in NUIG); 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: 316
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Boyle Union, 19.
- 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] : 183.
- WELD, Isaac. ''Statistical Survey of the county of Roscommon''. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1832. : 246 & 651
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Carrick on Shannon Union, 11 (Knocknagowna)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 55 (Roxborough) & 526 (Carrowroe)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Roscommon Union, 85 (Derrane) & 90 (Roxborough)
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Roscommon: Vol II, 89 (Roxborough) & Vol III, 256 (Carrowroe)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 58 & 59
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.186
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1912: 269.
- BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 59 (Carrowroe) & 228 (Oakport)
- LYONS, Mary C. ''Illustrated Incumbered Estates, Ireland, 1850-1905.'' Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1993. : 224-226