Newburgh (Ballyhaise)

Grants under the Acts of Settlement record a grant of 973 aces in county Cavan to Samuel Battaley in February 1666/7 which Battaley then sold to Thomas Newburgh of Ballyhaise, by deed dated 24 October 1667, for £500. Broghill Newburgh inherited the Ballyhaise estate in county Cavan in the very early 18th century. He was the second son of Thomas Newburgh and his wife Mary, daughter of Brockhill Taylor of Ballyhaise. He was High Sheriff of the county in 1704 and for more than ten years represented the county in Parliament. He developed his estate, laid out plans for the town and built the castle. His son Arthur worked for the linen board and married Florence Cole. Their eldest son Brockhill Newburgh had two children, a son Arthur and a daughter Frances who married Hamilton Haire. In May 1800 Arthur Newburgh was killed in a duel with James Corry. He was aged about 30 and married to Eliza Marianne, daughter and heiress of Jacob Camac of Greenmount, county Louth, and of the East India Company. Following Arthur Newburgh’s death in 1800 much of the estate was sold to William Humphrys, a Dublin merchant. However, in the mid-19th century Arthur Robert Camac Newburgh, born 1798, still held ten townlands in the parish of Castleterra, county Cavan. One of his sisters was married to Samuel Hutchins of Ardnagashel, Bantry, county Cork. In the mid-1870s, Arthur Newburgh was the owner of 1,563 acres in county Cavan. He was an officer in the Life Guards and lived in later life at Bantry, county Cork. He died in 1875 and is buried in Garryvurcha graveyard, Bantry. See Anglo-Celt, 12 April 1850 - Article entitled ‘History of Ballyhaise’ and https://theirishaesthete.com/category/cavan/page/2/ The estate was for sale in the Land Judges' Court in April 1877.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ballyhaise	Ballyhaise	Castleterra	Cavan	Ballyhaise	Upper Loughtee	Cavan	OSI Ref: H451116 OS Sheet: 16 Discovery map: 27

Archival sources

Documents relating to the Newburgh estate, Ballyhaise, county Cavan, 1612–1816. M.6956.; National Archives of Ireland
Pedigree of Taylor of Shadockhurst, Co Kent and Ballyhays also Agheduff, Co Cavan, 1550-1695. GO MS 171:360.; National Library of Ireland
Pedigree of the Newburgh family of Lifford and Castlefin, Co Donegal and Ballyhaise, Co Cavan, c 1650-1900. T1183; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Copy of will of T. Newburgh, Ballyhaise, April 1696. Ms 22.1.7.; Marsh's Library
Lease of the lands of Killenker, Co Cavan by Thomas Newburgh, Ballyhaise, to Edward Smyth of Cormeen, Co Meath, 16 June 1750. D 16,487.; National Library of Ireland
House of Lords Mss – petition and appeal of Brochill Newburgh and Brochill Perrot against Henry Newburgh relating to manor of Agheteduffe, Co Cavan, granted in Oct 1629 to Brochill Taylor, 18 Jan 1712.; House of Lords, Record Office
House of Lords Appeals Vol II Brockhill Newburgh and Brockhill Perrott, appellants v Henry Newburgh re lands of Agheteduffe or Ballyhaise, Apr 1712. Irish Exchequer Appeal.; King's Inn Library
Hutchins Papers, include typescript and photostat copies of documents relating to the family of Newburgh of Ballyahaise, c 19th century. Ms 8685.; National Library of Ireland
James Corry, Lurgan St., Dublin; Admon of James Corry, decd., Alex. Boyle, Gt. Charles St., Dublin, Esq., 1st pt.; Peter Latoriche, Dublin, 2nd pt.; Rt. Hon. John Foster, Collin, Co. Louth, 3rd pt.; Stewart King, Master in Chancery, Guardian of Arthur Robert Camac Newburgh; Alicia Maria Newburgh; Frances Newburgh; Elizabeth Mariannessa Newburgh; Mary Newburgh, 4th pt.; Robert Lodge, Castle St., Dublin, 5th pt.; John Leslie Foster, Merrion Square, Dublin, 6th pt.; Thomas Ellis, Master in Chancery, 7th pt.; Henry Atkins, Lurgan, Co. Armagh, Henry Swanzy, Rochfield, Co. Monaghan, 8th pt. - £5254.5s.4d. Conveyance - Lavey Tierney, Barony of Upper Loughtee, Co. Cavan - 135a.3r.7p. & other lands in Co. Cavan of Bishop of Kilmore. 16 March 1812. D618/23; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Lease made between Andrew Bell, Bellsgrove, county Cavan, gentleman, and John Bell, Crevy, county Longford, gentleman, eldest son of the said Andrew Bell, of the one part, and Christopher Pallas, Grousehill, and William Parratt Newburgh, Ballyhaise (Ballyhease), both county Cavan, esquires, of the other part. Leased are the town and lands of Bellsgrove otherwise Aghnacreevy (Aughacrevy), county Cavan; moiety of lands Andrew Bell and John Bell are now seized of in fee; and moiety of land held under lease dated 8 August 1749 made between John Maxwell, Farnham, county Cavan, esquire, and the said Andrew Bell. Lease to run for one year. Rent of one peppercorn if demanded. 23 April 1779. P017/0022; Cavan County Archives Service, Small Private Collections
Land Judges Court Rentals (O'Brien), Hutchens, 20 Apr 1877, Vol 127 (45 & 51), MRGS 39/058, (microfilm copy in NUIG) - 1,734 acres around Ballyhaise, Emanuel Hutchins, Hugh Stewart and Louisa Tisdall, owners, Arthur Robert Camac Newburgh, petitioner; National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

Modern printed sources

BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: Hutchins, 280
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Hutchins Papers, including deeds from the 17th century re the Hutchins family of west Cork and allied families of White of Bantry and Newburgh of Ballyhaise, Co Cavan. No 467
''The Genealogists' Magazine'': Pedigree of Newburgh of Ballyhaise. D.MSS.1031. Vol III, No 3, Sep 1927.
MULLIGAN, Kevin V. ''The Buildings of Ireland South Ulster, Armagh, Cavan and Monaghan'', (New Haven and London, 2013): 167-169
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 22