Burton (Burton Hall)
The Burton family of Burton Hall, county Carlow held land in the barony of Tirerrill, county Sligo. Samuel Burton of Burton Hall was Member of Parliament for the county in 1713. The head of the family in 1835 was William FitzWilliam Burton. In the 1860s property held by the Ramsay estate in the town of Sligo and the barony of Carbury was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. The particulars indicate that the original lease was between Cornet Francis Burton, of Burton Hall, and Laurence Vernon. Benjamin Burton [second son of Benjamin Burton of Burton Hall, who died 1808] was a lessor in the county Westmeath parishes of Faughalstown and Kilpatrick at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854). His representatives owned 1,542 acres in the county in the mid-1870s.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Map of Burton property at Rusheen & Maugheraboy, estate of W.F. Burton, 1835. ; Sligo County Library
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Ramsay, 11 November 1862, Vol 66, MRGS 39/033, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- 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] : 63
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 82