Landed Estates
University of Galway

Osborne

In 1813 Richard Boyse Osborne married Lucinda Humfrey and they had a son Richard Boyse Osborne (1815-1899) who had a distinguished career as an engineer in North America, Britain and Ireland. In May 1851 the estate of Richard Boyse Osborne, amounting to over 900 acres in county Tipperary (part of Clonoura, barony of Slievardagh and Inchinscullip, barony of Kilmanagh) and over 650 acres in county Kilkenny was advertised for sale. In July 1885 the lands of Inchinscullip were again advertised for sale, the estate of Matthew Flood. Tobias Osborne was an immediate lessor in the townland of Clonoura at the time of Griffith's Valuation.

Associated Families

No houses were found for this estate

Archival sources

  • Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Osborne, 30 May 1851, Vol 7 (46) & 7 Nov 1851, Vol11 (42), MRGS 39/003 & 39/005, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Incumbered Estates Court rental of property in Cos. Tipperary and Kilkenny of R. B. Osborne, for sale May 30, 1851. M. 5724 ; National Archives of Ireland
  • Diary of Richard Boyse Osborne, engineer, during the period, 1834-1886, spent mostly in Canada, the United States of America and Panama. With some account of the families of Boyse and Carr of Wexford, his immediate ancestors, and a more detailed account of his journey from New Ross to New York. Mss. 7888-7895 ; National Library of Ireland
  • Notes by J. A. C. Osborne on Richard Boyse Osborne and his diary (National Library of Ireland Mss. 7888-7895) with a partial index and a transcript of the diaries (typescript), and engraved portrait of R. B. Osborne. Ms. 9606 ; National Library of Ireland
  • Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Flood, 7 July 1885, Vol 149 (24), MRGS 39/065, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland

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Modern printed sources