Jackson (Mount Pleasant)
Major George Jackson of Mount Pleasant, Nenagh, county Tipperary, married Letitia, daughter of Richard Townsend Herbert of Cahirnane, county Kerry. In 1853 their daughter, Letitia, married Toler Kingsley Wolfe of St Margarets, county Dublin and Rapla, county Tipperary, eldest son of John Wolfe of Rockford, county Tipperary. The Jackson estate was in the parish of Ballymackey, barony of Upper Ormond, in the mid 19th century. In 1852 Andrew Jackson of Mount Pleasant married Alicia Smithwick. Andrew was murdered outside his home in 1863. Mount Pleasant and the lands of Tooreigh (729 acres in total)were advertised for sale in June 1870. In the 1870s George S. Jackson of Monkstown, county Dublin, owned 1,412 acres in county Tipperary.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Camira | Cappa | Ballymackey | Nenagh | Ballymackey 109 | Upper Ormond | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R956 812
OS Sheet: 21 Discovery map: 59 |
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| Hermitage | Killowney Little | Ballymackey | Nenagh | Ballygibbon 108 | Upper Ormond | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R932 814
OS Sheet: 21 Discovery map: 59 |
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| Mount Pleasant | Killowney Little | Ballymackey | Nenagh | Ballygibbon 108 | Upper Ormond | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R920 823
OS Sheet: 15 Discovery map: 59 |
Archival sources
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Jackson, 21 June 1870, Vol 97 (49), MRGS 39/046, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 144 (Mount Pleasant, Hermitage & Camira - Rev P. Bolton)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Upper Ormond, 28 (Cappa), 24 (Killowney Little)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 164
- 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] : 233
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Tipperary: Vol.I, Parish of Ballymackey, p.259.