Landed Estates
University of Galway

Higgins (Westport)

In 1703 Bryan Higgins bought part of the estate of Gerald Dillon of Feamore, county Mayo, from the Trustees for the sale of forfeited estates. He also held some of the lands of the Browne family of Westport, county Mayo, when they were in financial difficulties at the beginning of the 18th century. These lands in time reverted to the Brownes. Later generations of Higgins held property in the town of Westport from the Marquessess of Sligo. One member of the family Charles Fitzgerald Higgins went bankrupt in the mid 1850s. In 1866 he sold his property at Streamstown, parish of Oughaval, which he held from the Earl of Lucan. In 1851 the Higgins bought part of the Glencorrib estate, which was sold by Arthur Dillon Browne following the death of his father Robert in 1850 and the townland of Ballynalty from the sale of the Cannon estate by John Fair. Like Robert Dillon Browne, George Gore Ouseley Higgins represented county Mayo in Parliament. He died in 1874 and after the death in 1903 of his sister, a nun in the Ursuline Convent, Cork, the estate was inherited by his cousin, General John Palmer Brabazon, a member of the Brabazon family of Brabazon Park, Swinford. It was sold in 1921 to the Land Commission.

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Trafalgar Lodge Streamstown Oughaval Westport Westport Rural 154 Murrisk Mayo OSI Ref: L967 832
OS Sheet: 87
Discovery map: 31
Glencorrib Bunnafollistran Shrule Ballinrobe Shrule 34 Kilmaine Mayo OSI Ref: M216 529
OS Sheet: 123
Discovery map: 38

Archival sources

  • Westport Estate Papers, Collection List 78; National Library of Ireland
  • Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Higgins, 13 Feb 1866, Vol 80, MRGS 39/039, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Higgins, 22 Nov 1864, Vol 74, MRGS 39/037, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Hastings, 6 Nov 1874, Vol 117, MRGS 39/053, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Dillon-Browne, 5 Nov 1850 & 28 Jan 1851, Vols 3 & 5, MRGS 39/001 & 39/002, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Westport Estate Papers, rental of the estate of Margaret Higgins, 1884-1885. MS 41,078/2; National Library of Ireland
  • Photocopy of typescript of genealogical notes on the Higgins family, Co Mayo, c 1750-c 1872. T/481 ; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

Modern printed sources