Moore (Mooresfort)
Charles Moore, a member of the Moore family of Crookedstone, county Antrim, purchased the Mooresfort estate in county Tipperary circa 1850. His son Arthur John Moore had seats at Mooresfort and Aherlow Castle, county Tipperary and was created a Papal Count in 1879. He founded the Mount St Joseph Cistercian Abbey at Mount Heaton, county Offaly. In the 1870s Arthur Moore of Moorsfort owned 10,199 acres in the county and Miss Moore of Mooresfort owned 510 acres.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Mooresfort | Mooresfort | Lattin | Tipperary | Lattin 158 | Clanwilliam | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R803 334
OS Sheet: 66 Discovery map: 66 |
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| Aherlow Castle | Ballagh | Templeneiry | Tipperary | Bansha 146 | Clanwilliam | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R933 323
OS Sheet: 67 Discovery map: 66 |
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Archival sources
- Copy of grant of arms to the descendants of Arthur Moore of Mooresfort, Co. Tipperary by Mary O'Hara, his wife and to his son, Charles Moore of Mooresfort, Nov. 11, 1856. Genealogical Office: Ms.108, pp.149-50 ; National Library of Ireland
- Feilding family of Newnham Paddox Collection includes some 20th century correspondence of the Moores of Mooresfort. CR 2017; Warwickshire County Record Office
- Irish Tourist Association Survey file, early 1940s, South Tipperary No. 25 (Mooresfort); Tipperary Studies Research Library (Archives), Thurles
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 290 (Ballagh), 291 (Mooresfort)
- 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] : 323
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 166
- SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxx,255 (Mooresfort)
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 209 (Mooresfort)
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 419
- BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 211
- LYONS, Mary C. ''Illustrated Incumbered Estates, Ireland, 1850-1905.'' Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1993. : 27-28