Geale (Limerick)
Hamilton Gale/Geale held an estate in the parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, county Cork and in the parish of Darragh, barony of Coshlea, county Limerick, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s Hamilton Geale of Glenroe, Kilfrinan [Kilfinnane?] owned 2,521 acres in county Cork and 484 acres [Darraghmore = 485 acres] in county Limerick. Hussey refers to Hamilton Geale as a barrister and a Justice of the Peace in county Limerick and gives his address in 1878 as Durragh [Darragh] Lodge, Kilfinnane, co. Limerick. Hamilton Geale was the son of Piers Geale and his sister Elizabeth was the second wife of Hugh 2nd Earl Fortescue. At the time of Griffiths Valuation in the early 1850s, In the early 1850s he was among the principal lessors in the parish of Russagh, barony of Moygoish, County Westmeath.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Darragh House | Darraghmore | Darragh | Kilmallock | Darragh 33 | Coshlea | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R725 170
OS Sheet: 57 Discovery map: 73 |
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| Tristernagh House | Tristernagh Demesne | Kilbixy | Mullingar | Kilbixy 55 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N332616
OS Sheet: 11 Discovery map: 47 |
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Archival sources
- Rental and particulars of Hamilton Geale estate at Darraghmore, Co Limerick, for sale [1903]. P23/15; Limerick City Archives
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 124
- 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] : 178
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mullingar Union, 11 (Tristernagh House)
Modern printed sources
- ''The Dublin University Magazine'': Recent tourists in Italy: a review of "Notes of a Two Years' Residence in Italy" by Hamilton Geale and "Italy in the Nineteenth Century..." by James Whiteside. Vol. XXXII, pp. 405-420, October, 1848