Church Temporalities, Commissioners (Donegal)

In the 1870s the parliamentary report on owners of one acre and upwards recorded the Ecclesiastical Commissioners as the owners of over 21,000 acres in County Donegal. At the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s they were among the principal lessors in the parish of Raphoe, barony of Raphoe North and the parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan. Samuel Marshall, whom local sources suggest died in 1862, leased a number of townlands in the parish of Gartan from the Commissioners at the time of Griffiths Valuation. In 1867 property leased from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in the barony of Kilmacrenan by members of the Kennedy family was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. This included two mills.

Associated Families

No associated families were found for this estate

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ardvarnock Lower	Ardvarnock Glebe	Raphoe	Strabane	Figart	Raphoe North	Donegal	OSI Ref: C227024 OS Sheet: 70 Discovery map:
Raphoe Bishop's Palace	Raphoe	Raphoe	Strabane	Raphoe	Raphoe North	Donegal	OSI Ref: G259029 OS Sheet: 70 Discovery map:
Drumineney	Drumineney	Raphoe	Strabane	Raphoe	Raphoe North	Donegal	OSI Ref: G246007 OS Sheet: 70 Discovery map:
Tops (Raphoe)	Tops	Raphoe	Strabane	Raphoe	Raphoe North	Donegal	OSI Ref: G258003 OS Sheet: 70 Discovery map:
Beltany	Beltany	Raphoe	Strabane	Raphoe	Raphoe North	Donegal	OSI Ref: OS Sheet: 70 Discovery map:
Oakfield House	Oakfield Demesne	Raphoe	Strabane	Raphoe	Raphoe North	Donegal	OSI Ref: C272036 OS Sheet: 62 Discovery map: 6
Altaskin Lodge	Altaskin	Taughboyne	Strabane	St Johnstown	Raphoe North	Donegal	OSI Ref: OS Sheet: 63 Discovery map:
Kiltoy Lodge	Kiltoy	Aghanunshin	Letterkenny	Castlewray	Kilmacrenan	Donegal	OSI Ref: C188128 OS Sheet: 53 Discovery map: 6
Ballymacool	Ballymacool	Conwal	Letterkenny	Ballymacool	Kilmacrenan	Donegal	OSI Ref: C152109 OS Sheet: 53 Discovery map: 6

Archival sources

Published report of the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland, 1860-1880. CR7/1/A/3/1; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
The Armagh Diocesan Registry archive comprises 409 volumes and c.17,655 documents relating to the primacy, the province and the archdiocese of Armagh, 1240, 1291 and 1360-1977. They include title deeds, leases, rentals, maps, and surveys relating to church lands, 1606-1910. DIO/4; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland: letter books, 1849-1869; National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Kennedy, 18 June 1867, Vol 85, MRGS 39/041-42, (microfilm copy in University of Galway Library); National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: p.224.
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Letterkenny Union, p.2 (Kiltoy), p.32 (Ballymacool),
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Strabane Union, p.32 (Ardvarnock Glebe), p.37 (Raphoe Demesne), p.38 (Drimineney & Tops), p.40 (Beltany), p.41 (Oakfield Demesne), p.58 (Aaltaskin)