Landed Estates
University of Galway

Wright/Woodwright

According to Burkes the Wrights, located in the area west of Monaghan town, descend from a Cromwellian soldier James Wright, who was granted lands in the vicinity of Gola, parish of Tedavnet. Shirley states that James Wright purchased his estate from Thomas Coote of Cootehill, the purchase confirmed by a patent of 1684. James Wright married twice, first to Jane Owen and secondly to Mary Slacke. He left his estate to the eldest son of his second marriage, Joseph of Gola, whose descendants died out following the death of Joseph’s granddaughter Euphemia Wright in 1775. By the will of Euphemia’s father, also named Joseph Wright, Gola passed to Joseph son of his cousin Henry of Monaghan. Henry married Emily Burgess in 1730. Henry and Emily Wright had two sons Joseph who died childless in 1793 and William Cairnes Wright who eventually succeeded to Gola. His only child and heiress Elizabeth Isabella married Lieutenant James Wood who assumed the additional name of Wright following their marriage in 1812. In the 19th century the family of Wood-Wright/Woodwright owned the Gola estate in the parishes of Tedavnet and Aghabog. It amounted to over 3,700 acres in 1876. Other members of the Wright family owned land and properties in the parishes of Errigal Trough, Tedavnet and Monaghan. In 1858, the estate of William Nixon Wright at Lisabuck, held from the Bishop of Clogher, was advertised for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. Joseph Wright of Kilnacloy on the outskirts of Monaghan town was a solicitor and well known land agent in the late 19th century. He was a son of Henry Wright, a member of a branch of this family who were solicitors and clergyman in the town of Monaghan, including Joseph Wright, solicitor and proprietor of the Kilmore estate. In 1876, the representatives of James Wright of Monaghan and Thomas Edward Wright of Monaghan owned 436 acres and 350 acres respectively. The Wrights of Carrachor, parish of Tedavnet, county Monaghan, are a branch of the family that settled at Gola in the 17th century.

Associated Families

No associated families were found for this estate

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Gola Gola English Tedavnet Monaghan Scotstown Monaghan Monaghan OSI Ref: H587362
OS Sheet: 8
Discovery map: 28A
Carrachor Carrachor Tedavnet Monaghan Scotstown Monaghan Monaghan OSI Ref: H598374
OS Sheet: 8
Discovery map: 28A
Cappog House Cappog Tedavnet Monaghan Bellanode Monaghan Monaghan OSI Ref: H635360
OS Sheet: 9
Discovery map: 28A
Clontoe Clontoe Tedavnet Monaghan Bellanode Monaghan Monaghan OSI Ref: H628365
OS Sheet: 3
Discovery map: 28A
Blackwater Vale Mullaghmore East Tedavnet Monaghan Bellanode Monaghan Monaghan OSI Ref: H672350
OS Sheet: 9
Discovery map: 28A 		Photo of Blackwater Vale
Agheralane Agheralane Ballybay Castleblayney Ballybay Rural Cremorne Monaghan OSI Ref: H724187
OS Sheet: 24
Discovery map: 28B

Archival sources

  • Copy of a conveyance of Lysanan or Knocknagrat, Co Monaghan, by T. Coote to W. Robinson, 2 July 1661. Also other deeds concerning Knocknagrat and Mullyglasson [Mullaglassan, parish of Clones] and Robinson, Rose, Noble, Mitchell, Owens and Wright family members. 1701-73. D.18,837-48; National Library of Ireland
  • Grants of arms to the descendants of Captain James Wood and Elizabeth Isabella Wright of Golagh and to their grandson William Henry Edward Wood Wright, 8 April 1878 and 26 June 1895. GO Ms 109, 413-414; National Library of Ireland
  • Pedigree of Wright of Gola, Dublin, Belturbet and Newry, 1661-1925. GO Ms 176, 355-64; National Library of Ireland
  • Bennett Thompson and Company, solicitors. Maps, with tenants’ names, of the estate of W.H.E. Wood Wright of Tedavnet, Co Monaghan, 1875. M.6983; National Archives of Ireland
  • Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Wright, 26 Nov 1858, Vol 54 (14), MRGS 39/027, (microfilm copy in NUIG) Lisabuck, 129 acres close to Clones, held for ever from Bishop of Clogher; National Archives of Ireland
  • Ledger of the estate of Joseph Wright and list of debts, 1908. P/1/2/70; Monaghan County Library (Clones Branch)

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Modern printed sources