Mayne (Freame Mount)
The branch of the Mayne family who resided at Freame Mount, county Monaghan, descend from Robert Mayne and Rebecca Pearce of Dromore, who had a son Charles Mayne 1727-1777 who married his first cousin Dorothea Mayne. According to a website dedicated to the history of the Mayne family Charles built Freame Mount in 1772 naming it after the second wife of Thomas Dawson, Hannah Freame, granddaughter of William Penn. Charles and Dorothea had two sons Edward 1756-1829 and William 1758-1817. Edward was a judge in Dublin and William lived at Freame Mount where he planted trees and was agent to the Barrett Lennard estate. William’s sons William, a barrister lived at Freame Mount for some years and another son Richard lived at Glynch House, see http://www.geograph.ie/photo/896950 The representatives of William Mayne held four townlands in the parish of Tehallan at the time of Griffith’s Valuation and 365 acres in 1876. The Reverend Charles Mayne 1785-1873, Vicar General of the Diocese of Cashel and resident at Killaloe, county Clare, was a son of Judge Edward Mayne. In 1813 he married Susanna, daughter of William Henn, Master in Chancery. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation he held an estate of 11 townlands in the parishes of Aghabog and Killeevan, barony of Dartree and Tullycorbet, barony of Monaghan. The representatives of the Reverend Charles Mayne, Killaloe, owned 1,810 acres in county Monaghan in 1876. https://www.scribd.com/doc/75988391/Sedborough-Mayne-of-Ireland
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Freame Mount | Freame Mount Demesne | Ematris | Cootehill | Dawsongrove | Dartree | Monaghan |
OSI Ref: H591163
OS Sheet: 22 Discovery map: 28A |
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| Glynch/Glinch House | Glinch | Clones | Clones | Killeevan | Dartree | Monaghan |
OSI Ref: H566243
OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 28A |
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Archival sources
- A list of the tenants of Lord Cremorne in Co Monaghan giving rents and terms of leases, compiled by R. Mayne, Dec 1795. Ms 1696; National Library of Ireland
- Rental of Viscount Cremorne’s estates in Co Monaghan and William Mayne’s valuation of Dernamoyle, 1796-1797. Ms 3674; National Library of Ireland
- Volume containing copies of out-letters from William Mayne, Freamemount, agent for the Barrett Lennard estate at Clones, 1804-1817. D1232/1; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Volume containing copies of out-letters from William Mayne, Freamemount, agent for the Barrett Lennard estate at Clones, 1804-1817 in PRONI, Microfilm P 5433; National Library of Ireland
- Draft pedigree of Mayne of Dromore, Co Monaghan, 1679-1815. GO Ms 814, 14; National Library of Ireland
- Rental 1848 & 1853, M7036; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 598 (Freame Mount), II, 137 (Glynsk)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Cootehill Union, 60, Clones Union, 5