Headech
In 1865 William Headech bought the Holmes estate at Johnstown, county Tipperary. Daniel Grace writes that William Headech came to Ireland shortly before the Famine as secretary to the Imperial Slate Quarry Company at Portroe. He then bought the company and made a fortune from slate production. He paid over £13,000 for the Johnstown estate and is recorded in the 1870s as owning 989 acres in county Tipperary. He died in 1880. His descendants continued to live at Johnstown until the 1930s when the property was acquired by the Land Commission.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Johnstown Park | Johnstown | Killodiernan | Nenagh | Knigh 86 | Lower Ormond | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R828 885
OS Sheet: 9 Discovery map: 59 |
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Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 163
- 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] : 212
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 273