Roe (Roesborough)
Andrew Roe settled in county Tipperary in the early 18th century and purchased Roesborough from the Duke of Ormond. He had three sons who founded the Roe families of Roesborough, Grantstown and Rockwell. James Roe was the progenitor of the Roesborough branch and his descendant also named James married in the early 19th century Catherine daughter of Richard Chadwick of Perryville, county Tipperary. James was Member of Parliament for Cashel 1833-1834. Their son George Charles Lionel Roe held an estate in the parish of Tipperary in the mid 19th century. Part of the Roesborough estate was advertised for sale in May 1872 and George Charles Lionel Roe's life estate in the lands of Baronstown, Ballinvee and part of Roesborough, 609 acres in the barony of Clanwilliam, was also offered for sale in April 1873. In the 1870s George Roe of Heidelberg, Baden, owned 630 acres in county Tipperary. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~roehickey/roe.htm
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Roesborough | Roesborough | TIpperary | Tipperary | Tipperary Rural 169 | Clanwilliam | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R863 364
OS Sheet: 66 Discovery map: 66 |
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Archival sources
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Roe, 10 May 1872, Vol 106 (4), MRGS 39/049, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Roe, 18 Apr 1873, Vol 109 (45) & 23 May 1873, Vol 110 (8), MRGS 39/050 & 39/051, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Frewen, (part of Roesboro), 5 May 1885, Vol 148 (44), MRGS 39/065, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Papers relating to the properties of the Birch (and related families of Roe, Baillie and Massy) in Grantstown and Killoge, Co. Tipperary, 1676-1934. D. 20,784-817; M.3645; T.11,598-604 ; National Archives of Ireland
- Assignment of mortgage, unexecuted, by George Roe, Seamount, Co. Cork, John Roe, Roesgrove, Co. Cork and Thomas Roe, Roseburrow, Co. Tipperary to [ ] on lands in bar. Iffa and Offa West, Co. Tipperary, 1761. 999/24/3; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- 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] : 392
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 169
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Clanwilliam Barony, 206 (Roesborough)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 635 (Roesborough)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 339 (Roe'sborough)
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Tipperary: Vol.VIII, Parish of Shronehill [Shronell]: p.102. Vol.IX, Parish of Tipperary, p.95, 100,104,106.