Hill (Kilmacrenan)

Lord George Hill was among the principal lessors in the parish of Tullaghobegley at the time of Griffiths Valuation. In the 1870s he owned over 24,000 acres in County Donegal. Hill had purchased his Gweedore estate in the 1830s. He wished to modernize both farming practices and landholding on the estate but was perceived as a harsh landlord. George Hill was the fifth son of Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquis of Downshire and his wife Mary Sandys, whose seat was at Hillsborough Castle in County Down. Lady Hill was among the principal lessors in the parish of Raphoe, barony of Raphoe North, at the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s. Her estate is estimated at almost 1000 acres in the Landowner's Survey of the 1870s.

Associated Families

Hill (KIlmacrenan)

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Bunbeg	Bunbeg	Tullaghobegley	Dunfanaghy	Magheraclogher	Kilmacrenan	Donegal	OSI Ref: B801234 OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 1
Gweedore Hotel	Meenderrygamph	Tullaghobegley	Dunfanaghy	Magheraclogher	Kilmacrenan	Donegal	OSI Ref: B857223 OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 1
Seaview House (Kilmacrenan)	Magheraclogher	Tullaghobegley	Dunfanaghy	Magheraclogher	Kilmacrenan	Donegal	OSI Ref: B812238 OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 1
Heath Cottage (Kilmacrenan)	Meenderrygamph	Tullaghobegley	Dunfanaghy	Magheraclogher	Kilmacrenan	Donegal	OSI Ref: B840229 OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 1
Ballyarr House	Ballyarr	Tullyfern	Milford	Ballyarr	Kilmacrenan	Donegal	OSI Ref: C196202 OS Sheet: 45 Discovery map:

Archival sources

Bonds of indemnity, warrants of attorney etc, of Lord George Hill. D3054/3/1/1. ; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Visitors' book of Gweedore hotel, 1842-1859. MIC672/1.; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Dunfanaghy Union, p.69 (Bunbeg), p.71 (Magheraclogher), p.82 (Meenderrygamph)
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] : p.219.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: p.226.

Modern printed sources

''Jnl. of the Irish Family History Society'': Bonar, Margaret. The Gweedore estate of Lord George Hill. 21 (2005), pp.109-114.
''Donegal Annual'': Mac Arthur, C.W.P. The origin of an enduring myth: Wolfe Tone and Lord George Hill. 54 (2002), pp.17-18. t
''Donegal Annual'': Mac Arthur, C.W.P. The authorship of “Facts from Gweedore”. 53 (2001), pp.90-101
: Nolan, W. Ronayne,L. & Dunlevy, M. (eds). ''Donegal: History & Society''. Dublin: Geography Publication: 1995. Pp.547-582. : MacSuibhne, Breandán. Agrarian improvement and social unrest : Lord George Hill and the Gaoth Dobhair sheep war 1856-1860. pp.547-582.
''Irish Geography'': James, Kevin J. The little Big House at Gweedore: Inscribing sociality and space in north-west Ireland, 1842-1859. 45, part 3 (2012), pp.235-256.