Landed Estates
University of Galway

Dawson (Castle Dawson)

This Dawson family came from Westmoreland and settled in Ireland at the beginning of the 17th century. In 1633, Thomas Dawson purchased the lands of Castle Dawson, county Derry from George and Dudley Philips. The estate was in the possession of Arthur Dawson of Moyola Park, county Londonderry, at the beginning of the 19th century. Griffith’s Valuation records Arthur’s son, George Robert Dawson, as the proprietor of lands in the parish of Ballintemple, barony of Clanmahon, county Cavan. George Webb and Andrew Pallas both held some of the Dawson estate. G.R. Dawson married Mary daughter of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, and their son Robert Peel Dawson of Londonderry owned 1,116 acres in county Cavan and 2,618 acres in county Derry in the mid-1870s. The Reverend Andrew Hamond Snape Dawson who also owned land in county Cavan is believed to be descended from a younger son of Joshua Dawson of Castle Dawson, Secretary for Ireland in the reign of Queen Anne, died 1727. The lands of the Reverend Hammond Dawson were in the parish of Killinkere and amounted to 528 acres in 1876. He also owned 252 acres in county Fermanagh. The Reverend Hammond Dawson was a son of Rear Admiral John Dawson of Carrickfergus, county Down and county Cavan. His sister Mrs Wrixon also owned 514 acres in county Cavan in the parish of Larah at this time.

Associated Families

No houses were found for this estate

Archival sources

  • Draft mortgage for £10,000 by the Rt. Hon. George R. Dawson, Castle Dawson, Co. Derry to the Reverend Joseph Verschoyle, Ardnaree, Co. Mayo of the lands of Balytrost, Drumard etc bar. Clonmahon, Co. Cavan. Also the ground of the Pill, Oxmantown, Dublin City. Also houses in Inns Quay, houses in Charles St., land at Slanmullagh, Manor of Castledawson, par. Magherafelt, bar. Loughinsholin, Co. Derry, 18 Aug 1838. Pembroke Estate Papers, 1011/3/1/xiii; National Archives of Ireland
  • Estate Papers of Chichester Clark family, include J. F. Neary, Irish Land Commission papers relating to Corr, Dillagh, etc., Upper Aghawely, Co. Cavan, including recital of marriage settlement of George Dawson and Mary Peel 1815. [c.1930]. D1550/71; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Rentals, deeds, legal and other papers relating to the estates and affairs of the Dawson family, afterwards Lords Cremorne and Earls of Dartrey, in various counties. 18th - 19th c. (An unsorted collection in the National Library of Ireland.); National Library of Ireland
  • Rentals, deeds, legal and other papers relating to the estates and affairs of the Dawson family, afterwards Lords Cremorne and Earls of Dartrey, in various counties. 18th - 19th c. (An unsorted collection in the National Library of Ireland.); National Library of Ireland
  • Nine documents concerning the creditors of Lord Cremorne, c. 1833. Ms. 13,341; National Library of Ireland
  • List of tenants' arrears on Lord Cremorne's estates in Co. Monaghan, 1839. Ms. 4851; National Library of Ireland
  • Rent-roll of the Monaghan estate of Lord Dartrey in the baronies of Cremorne and Dartree, c. 1780. Ms 3282; National Library of Ireland
  • Rental of Lord Cremorne's estates in counties Monaghan and Armagh, 1838 - 1839. Ms 3189; National Library of Ireland
  • Valuation of the estates of Lord Cremorne in Co. Monaghan, listing denominations of lands, names of tenants, acreages, yearly values, the character of the soil, and other points, compiled by Robert Wilson, 1841-2. Ms. 1698; National Library of Ireland
  • Valuation of part of Lord Cremorne's Blackwatertown estate, 1848. Consolidated final notices to tenants, W. Donnelly, Blackwatertown estate, 1865, Earl of Dartrey, Co. Monaghan estate, 1874. D. 266 (287-9); Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Accounts of expenditure on and rents received from the Co. Monaghan estates of Lord Cremorne by his agent Andre Allen Murray, 1850-1856. Mss. 4852-4859; National Library of Ireland
  • A book of 20 manuscript maps of lands in the County of Monaghan, part of the estate of Lord Dartrey. Surveyed by John Brusten. Folio, 1779-80. Ms. 3181; National Library of Ireland
  • Seventeen documents in the cases of Cremorne v. Colpoys and Cremorne v. Hatchell, mainly dealing with estates in co. Louth and elsewhere c. 1835. Ms 10,314; National Library of Ireland

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