Congreve
Burke indicates that this family originated in Staffordshire and descend from John Congreve, resident in county Cork in the seventeenth century. Sadleir refers to John Congreve who was High Sheriff of Waterford in 1755 and married Mary, daughter of Beverley Ussher of Kilmeaden. Ambrose Congreve, of Mount Congreve, owned over 1900 acres in county Waterford in the 1870s, as well as over 2000 acres in county Kilkenny. The Mount Congreve estate is still extant and owned by the Congreve family. John Congreve was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Dysert, barony of Upperthird, and Kilburne and Lisnakill, barony of Middlethird, county Waterford, at the time of Griffith's Valuation.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Glen Lower (Dysert) | Glen Lower | Dysert | Carrick-on-Suir | Glen 7 | Upperthird | Waterford |
OSI Ref: S322223
OS Sheet: 3 Discovery map: 75 |
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| Abbey House | Abbeylands | Kilculliheen | Waterford | Waterford Urban 82 | Kilculliheen | Waterford |
OSI Ref: S614127
OS Sheet: 9, 10 Discovery map: 76 |
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| Abbey Farm | Abbeylands | Kilculliheen | Waterford | Waterford Urban 82 | Kilculliheen | Waterford |
OSI Ref: S614128
OS Sheet: 9, 10 Discovery map: 76 |
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| Landscape House | Landscape | Kilsheelan | Clonmel | Glen | Upperthird | Waterford |
OSI Ref: S295229
OS Sheet: 3 Discovery map: 75 |
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| Mount Congreve | Mountcongreve | Lisnakill | Waterford | Reisk 73 | Middlethird | Waterford |
OSI Ref: S533102
OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 75 |
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Archival sources
- Congreve of Mount Congreve, county Waterford, estate papers, dated 1609-1935. Accession 1079 ; National Archives of Ireland
- D. 10,113-19 Seven deeds relating to the Congreve family and lands in County Waterford 1810-1820.; National Library of Ireland
- Papers relating to the property of the Congreve and Congreve-Rogers families in Cos. Waterford and Wexford 18th - 19th c. Hoey and Denning, parcel 14 ; National Archives of Ireland
- Lismore Papers, Mss. 13,226-13,256 : Correspondence of members of the families of the Earls of Cork, and Burlington, and their associates, 1600-1757, mainly concerning their estates in Munster, correspondents include Col. Wm. Congreve, Richard Musgrave, Thomas Baker, Roger Power, John Ussher, Sir Wm. Abdy, members of the Davies family, and the first, second and third Earls of Cork, with papers on Youghal elections, 1707-1732 and an opinion on Munster recusants, 17th c. ; National Library of Ireland
- Lismore Papers, Ms. 13,230: Letters to Col. William Congreve, some with military and political references, several from Henry Boyle (aft. Baron Carleton), 1690-1700. ; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Upperthird Barony: 18 (Glen Lower), 43 (Landscape)
- 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] : 94
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 36 (Kilkenny), 174 (Waterford)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kilculliheen Barony: 3 (Abbeylands)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 292
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.II, 209 (Kilsheelan Parish)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Middlethird: 64 (Mountcongreve)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 295 (Captain Fleming)
- SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxx, 241 (Mount Congreve)
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 335 (Mount Congreve)
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.101
Modern printed sources
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: AINSWORTH, J.F. Report on the Congreve Papers (from 1669), the property of Major J. Congreve, Mount Congreve, Kilmeadon, Co. Waterford, relating to the Congreve, Lapp, Mandeville and Townsend families, and to lands in Cos. Cork, Tipperary, Kilkenny and Waterford and Dublin City. No.151
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 106
- ''Jnl. of the Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Society''.: Sadleir, Thomas U. The county of Waterford, 1775: principal gentry. XVI (1913), pp.49-55.
- O'Byrne, Robert (ed). A vanishing world: the Irish country house photographs of Father Browne. Dublin: Messenger Publications, 2024.: pp.30-33 (Mount Congreve)