Dobbin (Templeport)
The Dobbin family were from Carrickfergus, county Down. By the end of the 17th century a branch were settled at Ternascobe, county Armagh. Leonard Dobbin, born in 1789, of Wood Park, county Armagh, Templeport, county Cavan and Gardiners Place, Dublin, was descended from a junior branch of this family. In the mid-19th century he held an estate in the parish of Templeport, county Cavan which amounted to 2,364 acres in 1878. He held a further 1,098 acres in county Armagh. Leonard Dobbin died in 1881 leaving a number of sons by his wife Mary Miller, whose descendants settled in Canada and Australia.
Associated Families
No associated families were found for this estate
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Templeport House | Port | Templeport | Bawnboy | Bawnboy | Tullyhaw | Cavan |
OSI Ref: H222173
OS Sheet: 9 Discovery map: 27A |
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Archival sources
- Pack-Beresford Manuscripts, 1739-1939, contain some items referring to Leonard Dobbin. D664; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Pedigree of the Reid family, Drumgaw, Co. Antrim, c.1760-1954; pedigree of the Deacon and Dobbin families, Altaturk and Tirnascobe, Co. Armagh, c.1655-1940; typescript volume containing correspondence, genealogical notes, etc., relating to the Reid, Deacon, Dobbin, Wilson and Kirkpatrick families, T2466; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Bawnboy Union, 60