O'Connor/O'Connor-Henchy
This O'Connor family had links with the O'Connor Donelan family of Sylaun, county Galway. In 1796 Valentine O'Connor married Mary, daughter of David Henchy of Rockfield, Blackrock, county Dublin, son of John Henchy of Cratloe, county Clare. Their second son, David, lived at Stonebrook, county Kildare and assumed the additional name of Henchy. At the time of Griffith's Valuation O'Connor Henchy held land in the parish of Graystown, barony of Middlethird, county Tipperary. In 1850 David married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Burke, baronet, of Marble Hill, county Galway and in 1887, their son Hugh, married Virginia, only daughter of Andrew Browne of Moyvilla Castle, county Galway. In the 1870s David O'Connor Henchy of Stonebrook, Ballymore Eustace, county Kildare, owned 1,090 acres in county Kildare. Valentine O'Brien O'Connor, the third son of Valentine and Mary O'Connor, lived at Rockfield, county Dublin and also had a residence at Ballykisteen, county Tipperary. In the 1870s he is recorded as owning 837 acres in county Limerick and 78 acres in county Dublin. According to the ''New Zealand Tablet'' (7 Huitanguru [Sept]1874) he bought this property from the Earl of Derby as the newspaper states that an annuity of £5,000 for his wife was charged on the estate under the provisions of his will. He died in September 1873 and was succeeded by his fourth son, William, of Ballykisteen, county Tipperary, who owned 6,178 acres in county Tipperary in the mid 1870s and died childless in 1898.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Moyveela Lodge | Moyveela | Athenry | Galway | Stradbally 57 | Dunkellin | Galway |
OSI Ref: M450248
OS Sheet: 95 Discovery map: 46 |
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| Grallagh Castle | Grallagh | Graystown | Cashel | Graystown 47 | Middlethird | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: S150 489
OS Sheet: 53 Discovery map: 66 |
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| Ballykisteen House | Gotinstown | Solloghodmore | Tipperary | Ballykisteen 166 | Clanwilliam | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R854 386
OS Sheet: 58 Discovery map: 66 |
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Archival sources
- Papers of David O'Connor Henchy, M. P.; mainly of a personal nature including letters from relatives on the continent, with some references to political affairs; also letters to his mother-in-law Lady Elizabeth Burke, Marble Hill, Co. Galway, from Lady Radnor; 1812-87. Ms. 18,451; National Library of Ireland
- O'Connor Henchy Papers, mainly relating to Gort, Co Galway, unsorted collection, 19th-20th centuries. ; National Library 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: 152, 167
- 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] : 346
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Middlethird Barony, 79 (Grallagh)
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Tipperary: Vol.IV, Parish of Graystown, p.87.
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 256-257
- ''Jnl. of the County Kildare Archaeological Society'': HUSSEY-WALSH,V. The O'Connor Henchys of Stonebrook. Vol. II (1896-1899), pp. 407-412