Landed Estates
University of Galway

Fitzmaurice

Lord George Hamilton was created Earl of Orkney in 1696. He married Elizabeth Villiers and was succeeded by his daughter Anne (died 1756), the wife of William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin. Their daughter Mary (died 1791) became Countess of Orkney. She was succeeded in the title by her daughter Mary (1755-1831) who married Thomas Fitzmaurice (1742-1793), son of John Petty, Earl of Shelburne, and was succeeded in the title by her grandson, Thomas John Hamilton Fitzmaurice (1803-1877). In the mid 19th century the Earl of Orkney held an estate in county Tipperary in the baronies of Eliogarty (parishes of Drom, Inch and Rahelty) and Ikerrin (Bourney and Templeree). The county Tipperary estate amounted to 7,877 acres in the 1870s. The Earl of Orkney also owned 1,642 acres in county Kerry and 1,438 acres in Queen's County (Laois). The Earl of Orkney held over a thousand acres of untenanted land in the Thurles area in 1906.

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Castleleiny Castleleiny Templeree Thurles Templetuohy 138 Ikerrin Tipperary OSI Ref: S150 711
OS Sheet: 29
Discovery map: 60

Archival sources

  • Pedigree of Earldom of Orkney and its descent in female line from family of Hamilton through O'Brien to Fitzmaurice, 1666 -- 1832. Genealogical Office: Ms.173, p.152 ; National Library of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

Modern printed sources