Cliffe (Bellevue)
At the time of Griffith's Valuation Anthony Cliffe held land in the barony of Fermoy, county Cork. In the 1870s his county Cork estate amounted to 953 acres but his main estates were in county Wexford (4,459 acres) and county Kilkenny (2,236 acres) and he also owned 276 acres in county Meath. This family were descended from a Cromwellian settler who received grants of land in counties Meath and Wexford. Possibly acquired their county Cork lands throught the marriage (1694) of John Cliffe and Barbara Carr, eventual heir to William Carr of the city of Cork. The seat of this family was Bellevue, county Wexford. Portions of the Tipperary estate of Nelson T. Foley, executor of R. Cliffe, deceased, were sold in the Landed Estates Court in June 1877.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Copy of confirmation of arms to the descendants of John Cliffe of Malrankan Hall, Co. Wexford, M. P., and to his great grandson, Anthony Cliffe of Bellevue, Co. Wexford, Oct. 19, 1854. GO Ms.108, pp.35-6 ; National Library of Ireland
- Pedigree of Cliffe of Mulranken, Co. Wicklow, and New Ross, Co. Wexford, c.1680 c.1826. GO Ms.176, p.12 ; National Library of Ireland
- Supplementary report on the Vigors Papers (from 1709), the property of Mrs. E. O'Grady, Holloden, Bagenalstown, relating to the Cliffe, Rudkin and Vigors families, and to lands in Co. Carlow and properties in Carlow and New Ross. No 321; National Library of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rental of Cliffe estates at Ballyvara, barony of Middlethird, Co Tipperary, with order dated 1831 & Chancery report. M.5452(1-3); National Archives of Ireland
- Family & estate papers of the Cliffe/Vigors families of Burgage, Old Leighlin, Co Carlow, 17th-20th centuries including references to Anthony Cliffe & the Carr family. Acc. 1096; 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: 119
- 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] : 86
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.95
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: 1862-1863: I, 255-256
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Vigors Papers (from 1627), the property of Mrs. E. C. O'Grady, Holloden, Bagenalstown, relating to the Cliffe, Vigors, de Laune, Worth, Tench and Meek families, and to lands in Cos. Kilkenny, Wexford, Meath, Carlow, Tipperary and Offaly. No 168
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 96-97
- ''Irish Times'': Landed Estates Court sale reports, 27 June 1877, p.3