Landed Estates
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Lucas/Lucas-Scudamore (Castleshane)

In 1683, Charles II granted the manor of Castle Shane to Francis Lucas. His descendants served as Members of Parliaments and High Sheriffs of county Monaghan. Edward Lucas of Castle Shane was born in 1720 and had a family of seven sons and five daughters. In 1786, his successor Charles Lucas married Sarah, eldest daughter of Sir James Hamilton of Monaghan and they had an only child, the Right Hon Edward Lucas, Under Secretary of State for Ireland 1841-1846 and a member of the Privy Council. The Castle Shane estate was mainly in the parish of Clontibret, barony of Cremorne, but also in the parishes of Aghnamullen, Monaghan, Tehallan, Tedavnet and Clones. The rental of over 1,000 acres of the Lucas estate held in fee-simple and just north of Lough Bawn was for sale in the Landed Estates Court in May 1861 and parts of it again in November of that year. By 1876, Edward Scudamore Lucas, a grandson of the Right Hon Edward Lucas, was proprietor of this estate of 9,955 acres. Other members of the Lucas family owned small amounts of land in 1876. On inheriting the Kentchurch, Herefordshire, estate in England from his mother’s family Edward Scudamore Lucas took the additional name of Scudamore in 1900. see https://www.castleshanehistory.ie/

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Castleshane Castleshane Demesne Monaghan Monaghan Castleshane Monaghan Monaghan OSI Ref: H732321
OS Sheet: 10
Discovery map: 28B
Rockfield (Moysnaght) Moysnaght Clontibret Monaghan Clontibret Cremorne Monaghan OSI Ref: H737271
OS Sheet: 14
Discovery map: 28B
Greenmount Greenmount Clontibret Monaghan Castleshane Cremorne Monaghan OSI Ref: H747329
OS Sheet: 10
Discovery map: 		Photo of Greenmount
Creeve House/Creevelands Creeve Aghnamullen Castleblayney Creeve Cremorne Monaghan OSI Ref: H714175
OS Sheet: 24
Discovery map: 28B 		Photo of Creeve House/Creevelands
Harry Mount Lisaginny Clontibret Monaghan Castleshane Cremorne Monaghan OSI Ref: H746301
OS Sheet: 14
Discovery map: 28B
Lakelands (Clontibret) Lismagunshin Clontibret Monaghan Clontibret Cremorne Monaghan OSI Ref: H774245
OS Sheet: 19
Discovery map: 28B
Woodview Cordevlis Tehallan Monaghan Castleshane Monaghan Monaghan OSI Ref: H725327
OS Sheet: 10
Discovery map: 28B

Archival sources

  • Copy of the conveyance of the Ballybay estate from Edmond Beaghan of East Bradenham, Norfolk, to Rev. Dr Henry Leslie of Hillsborough, Archdeacon of Down, for £3,600 British, and the original of a subsequent release connected with the transaction; the conveyance of 1712 mentions that the whole estate was then let to Francis Lucas of Castleshane. 1712-1720. D3406/D/4/3; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Title-deeds by which Edward Lucas of Castleshane, Co. Monaghan, conveyed to Lord Cremorne the lands of Annyelkin, Corlea, Cooltrim, Drumgor, Lackan, and Aughnaskew, 805 Irish acres at a rental of over £800, for £25,500. 1841-1842. D3053/7/12; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Carte Papers – register of Irish petitions – petition of Francis Lucas of Castle-Shane, re the village of Castle-Shane to be made into a Borough Corporate and that his estate, as scheduled be made into one manor, with order and report, 14 July 1683. MS Carte 161 fol. 38; Oxford University: Bodleian Library
  • Pedigree of Lucas of Castle Shane, Co Monaghan and Grenan and Coote Hill, Co Cavan, c 1630-1824. GO Ms 169, 132-33.; National Library of Ireland
  • Lease of land in Bellabeagh [Ballybay], Tullycorbit parish, for 41 years, Francis Lucas, Castleshane, to Andrew Ker, Corryhagan, parish of Aghnamullen, 1 March 1697. Templetown Papers D585/3; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Map showing part of the boundary in Drumgallon bog between Cos Monaghan and Armagh, surveyed by Sinnamon Noble, property of Edward Lucas and Andrew J. Crawford, 1863. D234/7; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Francis Lucas, Castleshane, Co. Monaghan. to Andrew Ker, Corryhagen, Parish of Augnamullin, Co. Monaghan. Lease for 41 yrs. 1st 2 yrs. £4.15s. remainder of term £9.10s. Tate of land.... Bellabeagh, Parish of Tullycorbit, Co. Monaghan. "... excepting... & the house built for preaching ...." Housebuilding clause. 1 March 1697. D585/3; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Rt. Hom. Edward Lucas Castle Shane, Co. Monaghan, Owner & Petr. L.E.C. Rental of Estate Aghnaskew, Corlea, Lackan, Annyelkin, Drumgor, Cooltrim, Co. Monaghan. 2 May 1861. T579/31; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • 24 deeds mainly early 19th c. relating to the Hamilton and Lucas families and transactions concerning the advowson of Drumgoone, co. Cavan. D. 23,759-23,782; National Library of Ireland
  • Collection of letters received by Sybil Lucas-Scudamore in the aftermath of the fire at Castleshane in February 1920, see Terence Dooley, ''The Irish Revolution 1912-23 Monaghan'', (2017); Private Possession
  • Estate and family papers of the Lucas-Scudamore family of Kentchurch Court, Hereford, 1700-2000.; Herefordshire Record Office
  • Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Lucas, 14 June 1860, Vol 59 ([5/3]9), MRGS 39/029, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Lucas, 2 May & 7 Nov 1861, Vol 61 (70) & 63 (19), MRGS 39/030 & 39/032, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Castleshane Estate Maps. Ref. 1991:47; Monaghan County Museum

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Modern printed sources