Fitzgerald (Ardcloony)
''The Connaught Journal'' of 20 February 1840 records the purchase in the Court of Chancery of Ardcloony, O'Brien's Bridge, county Clare, by Francis Connell Fitzgerald, for £4,500. Francis Connell Fitzgerald was involved in the Tontine Company of Limerick. John Connell Fitzgerald married Margaret Apjohn and this couple were living in Abington House in the 1860s when their two daughters Mary and Frances were born in 1864 and 1866 (records of parish of Murroe). In December 1886 the estate of Edmund Fitzgerald, deceased, and his heir-at-law, John Connell Fitzgerald, was offered for sale in the Land Judges' Court. The court agreed to adjourn the sale to allow the solicitors for the tenants to submit private bids.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Ardcloony | Ardcloony | Killaloe | Limerick | O'Briensbridge 111 | Tulla Lower | Clare |
OSI Ref: R677 692
OS Sheet: 45 Discovery map: 58 |
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| Abington House | Dromeliagh | Abington | Limerick | Abington 72 | Owneybeg | Limerick |
OSI Ref: R715533
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 65 |
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Archival sources
- Pery Square Tontine collection, 1848-1906. IE LA P73; Limerick City Archives
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 223 (Ardcloony)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Tulla Lower, 39 (Ardcloony)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 109
Modern printed sources
- ''Irish Times'': Land Judges' Court sale reports, 11 December 1886, p.3