Lepper
The representatives of Robert Lepper are recorded among the principal lessors in the parish of Moville Lower, barony of Inishowen East, County Donegal, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation, in the 1850s. Hussey de Burgh records Robert Lepper, of Foyle View, Redcastle, as the owner of over 1300 acres in County Donegal in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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Foyle View [Castle View] | Carrickmaquigley | Moville Upper | Inishowen | Redcastle | Inishowen East | Donegal |
OSI Ref: C552353
OS Sheet: 31 Discovery map: 3 |
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Beech Cottage (Inishowen) | Carrickmaquigley | Moville Upper | Inishowen | Redcastle | Inishowen East | Donegal |
OSI Ref: C552354
OS Sheet: 31 Discovery map: 3 |
Archival sources
- Leases granted from the estate of the Marquis of Donegall, 1866, including to Robert Lepper, Foyleview, Inishowen. D652/1566.; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Inishowen Union, p.130 (Carrickmaquigley)
- HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. ''The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland''. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : p.268.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: p.227.