Lanigan/Lanigan-O'Keeffe
John Lanigan (1800-1868) of Glenaguile, Nenagh, county Tipperary, Member of Parliament, married Frances daughter of Charles O'Keeffe of Richmond, county Tipperary and granddaughter of Cornelius O'Keeffe Member of Parliament. John was the son of Stephen Lanigan and he became a barrister. His eldest son Stephen Martin Lanigan assumed the additional name of O'Keeffe in 1895. In the mid 19th century members of the Lanigan family held land in the parishes of Newtownlennon and Kilvemnon, barony of Slievardagh, Aghnameadle and Latteragh, barony of Upper Ormond and Templemore, barony of Ikerrin, county Tipperary. In the 1870s Stephen M. Lanigan of Glenaguill owned 1,639 acres in county Tipperary. There is no substanial house marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map for the townland of Glenaguile in the parishes of Aghnameadle and Latteragh. John Lanigan held the townland from the Honourable Mrs Otway Cave at the time of Griffith's Valuation. No house in the townland was rated at £3 or more for valuation purposes.
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Pedigree of Lanigan also Lenigan of Ballykiefe, of Grange both in Co. Kilkenny, of Zoar and Castle Fogarty (also Garranroe), Co. Tipperary, c.1720 -- 1828. Genealogical Office: Ms.170, pp.203-9 ; National Library of Ireland
- Copy of grant of arms to Stephen Martin Lanigan of Glenagyle, Co. Tipperary and Delville, Co. Dublin, eldest son of John Lanigan of Glenagyle by Frances, daughter of Charles O'Keeffe and niece of Dixon Cornelius O'Keeffe of Richmond House, Templemore, Co. Tipperary, on his assuming under Royal Licence the name and arms of O'Keeffe, Aug. 30, 1895. Genealogical Office: Ms. 110, pp. 185-6 ; 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: 165
- 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] : 260
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Upper Ormond, 8 & 71 (Glenaguile)