Stewart (Mount Stewart)
The Stewarts, Marquis of Londonderry, were among the principal lessors in the parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, County Donegal at the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s. Hussey de Burgh noted that the estate in Donegal amounted to over 1000 acres in the 1870s. They also held over 23,500 acres in County Down and over 2000 acres in County Derry.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Londonderry Estate Office Archive. Papers relating to the administration of the estates of the Marquises of Londonderry. D654. ; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- A survey of part of the Mannor of Mount Stewart, barony of Raphoe. Co. Donegal, the estate of Mrs Alice Stewart. Manuscript map.15 B 16 (8). ; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- 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.277.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: p.227.
Modern printed sources
- Public Record Office Northern Ireland Collection Lists: Introduction to the Londonderry Estate Office Archive. (2007)
- ''Familia: Ulster Genealogical Review'': Casement, Anne. The management of the Londonderry estates in Ulster during the Great Famine. 21 (2005), pp.15-68.