Ellis (Monaghan, Cavan, Westmeath and Wicklow)

The Ellis families of Abbeyfeale, county Limerick and of Sea Park, county Wicklow, both descend from Thomas Ellis who settled in Monaghan in the late 17th century. His grandson Robert married a Leslie of Aghanloo, county Fermanagh and their grandson Robert Leslie Ellis of Bath was the owner of lands in the parishes of Aghnamullen, Errigal Trough, Tedavnet, Drummully and Ballybay, county Monaghan, in the mid-19th century. Robert Leslie Ellis was a mathematician and distinguished scholar at Cambridge. He never married and his estate appears to have reverted to his first cousin Robert Francis Ellis of Sea Park or Magherymore, county Wicklow, who owned 830 acres in county Monaghan in 1876. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Robert Francis Ellis also held land in the parish of Killashandra, county Cavan. His brother Thomas Ellis of St Austin’s, Gorey, county Wexford, is recorded as the owner of 360 acres in county Cavan in 1876. Robert ‘A’ Ellis held land in the parish of St Feighin’s, county Westmeath, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854), including Gillardstown. F Ellis owned 1,167 acres in county Westmeath in the mid-1870s. This appears to be Robert Francis Ellis of Sea Park, county Wicklow, died 1899, as his son Lt Col Henry Leslie Ellis’ estate in county Westmeath was being sold in 1912, see Parliamentary Papers, 1909-1982, vol 71, 44.

Associated Families

No associated families were found for this estate

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Poplar Vale	Drumgoask	Tedavnet	Monaghan	Bellanode	Monaghan	Monaghan	OSI Ref: H663355 OS Sheet: 9 Discovery map:
Clinkeehan	Roranna	Drummully	Clones	Drummully	Dartree	Monaghan	OSI Ref: H450222 OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 27A
Ashvale	Annaneese	Ballybay	Castleblayney	Ballybay Rural	Cremorne	Monaghan	OSI Ref: H713195 OS Sheet: 19 Discovery map: 28B
Lisnaroe	Lisnaroe Near	Clones	Clones	Clones Rural	Dartree	Monaghan	OSI Ref: H487272 OS Sheet: 11 Discovery map: 28A

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Castleblayney Union, 50; Clones Union, 8, 56; Monaghan Union, 61
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 360 (Lisnaroe), II, 662 (Poplar Vale)
ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Monaghan: I, 163 (Lisnaroe)
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] : 146
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 83
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Castletowndelvin Union, 67 (Gillardstown)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 196 (Gillardstown)

Modern printed sources

CASHIN, Edward J. ''Governor Henry Ellis and the Transformation of British North America'', (Georgia 1994): All
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Ellis Papers from 1725 relating to the Ellis family and lands in the Cos Cavan, Dublin, Fermanagh, Monaghan, Westmeath and Wicklow. No 169
''The Irish Genealogist'': I, No 6, Oct 1939. Abstracts of diocesan wills include that of T. Ellis of Monaghan, 1714.
BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 189
BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 169