Pigott/Pemberton-Pigott (Slevoy Castle)
This family were settled at Slevoy Castle, county Wexford from the 18th century. In the mid-nineteenth century Colonel William Pigott was the principal lessor of the townlands of Ballinlig and Kilcumrereagh in the parish of Kilcumrereagh, County Westmeath. In the 1870s Captain William Pigott owned 545 acres in County Westmeath and 262 acres in King’s County [County Offaly]. The estate of Edward Charles Pemberton Pigott at Ballinlig and Kicumrereagh, 493 acres, was for sale in the Landed Estates Court in November 1880 with over 1,200 acres in county Wexford. Mary Pigott of Slevoy Castle, Foulksmills, county Wexford, owned 626 acres in county Cork in the 1870s.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Pigott, 12 Nov 1880, Vol 140 (22), MRGS 39/062, (microfilm copy in UG); 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: 85, 132
- 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] : 368