Brooke (Lough Eske)
In the 1870s the estate of Thomas Young Brooke amounted to over 15,000 acres in County Donegal. This estate was among the principal lessors in the parish of Killymard, barony of Banagh, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation in the 1850s. Thomas Brooke and Colonel Henry Brooke were among the principal lessors in the parish of Kilmacrenan, County Donegal at the same time. The Brooke family had held property in south Donegal since the seventeenth century. Thomas Young had married Jane Grove, the heiress to the Brooke estate at Lough Eske estate, and changed his name to Brooke. In the 1890s the estate was sold to the Whyte family.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Lough Eske | Lougheask Demesne | Killymard | Donegal | Lough Eask | Banagh | Donegal |
OSI Ref: G957822
OS Sheet: 94 Discovery map: |
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| Fort Stewart (KIlmacrenan) | Killydonnell | Aughnish | Millford | Rathmelton | Kilmacrenan | Donegal |
OSI Ref: C261192
OS Sheet: 46 Discovery map: |
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| Ardnamona | Greenan | Killymard | Donegal | Lough Eask | Banagh | Donegal |
OSI Ref: G967854
OS Sheet: 85 Discovery map: 11 |
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Archival sources
- Survey by Robert Young of tenants and holdings on the estate of Thomas Brooke in parishes of Conwal and Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal, Ms.17,722. ; National Library of Ireland
- Pedigree of Young of Lough Esk, afterwards Brooke, c.1740-1830. Genealogical Office Ms.171, p.223. ; National Library of Ireland
- Terrier copied from manuscript map, relating to grand to lands in Tirhugh barony, to Captain H. Brooke, 1654-56. 16 B 15 (17); National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Donegal Union, p.83 (Lough Esk)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: p.223.
- 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.54.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: p.37 (Lough Eask Demesne, H.G. White), p.38 (Greenan, A.R. Wallace)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.II, p.161 (Lough Eske)
Modern printed sources
- WALFORD, Edward. 'The County families of the United Kingdom''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1885): p.132 [Thomas Young Brooke]
- ''Donegal Annual'': Speers, Arthur. Three hundred years of the Brookes and other Ascendancy families at Lough Eske. 45 (1993), pp.94-103.
- ''Donegal Annual'': Donnelly, Mowenna. Susanna Marie Brooke, her family, the Brookes and Lough Eske Castle. 41 (1989), pp.89-93.
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Special Lists.: Ainsworth, John. Report on the Reid papers, in the custody of R.H. Reid, Ballyshannon, relating to Brooke family property in County Donegal. Reports on Private Collection no.114.