Murray Stewart
In the 1870s H.G. Murray Stewart of Gullygate House, Scotland, was the owner of over 50,000 acres in County Donegal. This estate held property in the parishes of Inishkeel, Kilcar, Killaghatee and Killybegs Upper in the Barony of Banagh at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. This estate had previously belonged to a Murray family of Broughton, Scotland, since the Ulster Plantation. It was inherited by Horatio Granville Stewart, following the death without heirs of Alexander Murray in 1845. H.G. Murray Stewart offered almost 4000 acres of his estate in the baronies of Banagh and Boylagh for sale in the Landed Estates Court in July 1869. Elements of the estate were later purchased by the Musgrave family. In 1885 the rental of almost 500 acres in the barony of Banagh leased from the Murray Stewart estate by Prudence Blain, was offered for sale in the Land Judges' Court.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Milltown House (Killymard) | Milltown | Killymard | Donegal | Banagh | Donegal |
OSI Ref: G931787
OS Sheet: 93 Discovery map: |
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| Bonnyglen | Bonnyglen | Inver | Donegal | Bonnyglen | Banagh | Donegal |
OSI Ref: G828796
OS Sheet: 92 Discovery map: 11 |
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| Rossylongan House | Rossylongan | Killymard | Donegal | Donegal | Banagh | Donegal |
OSI Ref: G913775
OS Sheet: 99 Discovery map: |
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Archival sources
- Horatio Granville Murray Stewart and family, estate papers: 15 items, mainly volumes of rentals with details of tenants and amounts of rent paid and maps, Killybegs, Kilcar, Killaghatee, and other areas of South Donegal, 1749 – 1880. ; Donegal County Archives
- Rentals and cashbook of Murray Stewart estate, 1840s-1850s. Ms.5464-5466.; National Library of Ireland
- Farm account books, Murray Stewart estate, 1848-1851. Ms.5471.; National Library of Ireland
- Ledgers of the Donegal estate of H.G. Murray Stewart 1881-1892. Ms.3083.; National Library of Ireland
- Rentals of the estate of H. G. Murray-Stewart in County Donegal, Ms.5464-5480.; National Library of Ireland
- Ordnance survey maps showing the estate of H. G. Murray Stewart in Co. Donegal, 19th c. M.321. ; National Archives of Ireland
- Account book, grants made in kind to tenants for house building, 1853-1860. Ms.4280.; National Library of Ireland
- Survey of the estate of Alexander Murray in Donegal, by Thomas Addi in 1730. D.2860/25/3. Available online at http://donegalgenealogy.com/murrayestate.htm. ; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Murray Stewart, 6 Jul 1869, Vol 95, MRGS 39/045-46, (microfilm copy in University of Galway Library); National Archives of Ireland
- Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Blain, 5 Jun 1885, , MRGS 39/065-66, (microfilm copy in NUIG);; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- 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.427.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: p.230
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Donegal Poor Law Union, p.68.
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.II, p.161 (Rossylongan, R. Steele)
Modern printed sources
- ''Donegal Annual'': Conaghan, Patrick. Alexander Murray’s Killybegs project. 60 (2008), pp.258-274.
- : Nolan, W. Ronayne,L. & Dunlevy, M. (eds). ''Donegal: History & Society''. Dublin: Geography Publication: 1995. Pp.547-582. : Kirkham, Graeme. “No more to be got from the cat but the skin”: management, landholding and economic change in the Murray of Broughton estate, 1670-1755. pp.357-380.
- Meehan, Helen. ''Inver parish in history''. Donegal: [the author], 2005. : The Murray family. pp.116-120.
- ''Jounral of the County Donegal Historical Society'': Valuable records salved for Donegal Historical Society, those of the Murray-Stewart Estate, dating back to 1749. 1, no,II (1948), pp.140-143.