Landed Estates
University of Galway

Brunker

This family appear to have been settled in the Rockcorry area of county Monaghan from at least the mid-eighteenth century. Brabazon Brunker 1710-1775 married Dorothy Gault and had a son John who married Catherine Foster and died in 1796, see http://suzieq.net.au/HTMLFiles/HTMLFiles_49/P31751.html In 1796, John and Robert Brunker of the parish of Ematris in which the village of Rockcorry is situated, were recorded as flax growers. In the mid-nineteenth century Thomas Brunker [of Milmore, parish of Aghnamullen] held four townlands in the parish of Ematris while Edward George Brunker, a medical doctor, held one townland in the parish of Currin, barony of Dartree. In 1876 William Steele Brunker of Ardee, county Louth, owned 721 acres in county Monaghan.

Associated Families

No associated families were found for this estate

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Milmore/Millmore Derry Aghnamullen Cootehill Cormeen Cremorne Monaghan OSI Ref: H679165
OS Sheet: 23
Discovery map:
Minore Cortober Currin Cootehill Drum Dartree Monaghan OSI Ref: H566173
OS Sheet: 22
Discovery map: 28A

Archival sources

  • Leslie Papers; legal papers of a lawsuit relating to lands in Co. Monaghan between Thomas Brunker and the representatives of Alexander Montgomery of Rosefield and John Montgomery of Ballyleck, Co. Monaghan. Following the lawsuit Charles Powell Leslie II purchased several lands and premises of the Montgomery estate under dispute. Includes briefs, purchases, surveys, case of Leslie, draft conveyances of lands, final decree, rentals, marriage settlements, wills, queries, and other items related to the case. MS 49,495/364-382; National Library of Ireland
  • Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Cottnam, 2 June 1853, Vol 21 (16), MRGS 39/009, (microfilm copy in NUIG) ; National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources