Ashworth (Co Mayo)
In the early 1850s Reverend John Hervey Ashworth bought lands in the barony of Burrishoole, county Mayo, from the sale of the O'Donel of Newport estate but appears to have sold them on very rapidly to Alexander W. Wyndham. "The General Armoury" refers to Ashworth of Ashworth and Hall Carr, Co Lancaster and Elland Bank, in Yorkshire, represented by Reverend John Hervey Ashworth (page 29). Thomas Ashworth, who also had Lancashire connections, purchased the Galway fishery in the Encumbered Estates' Court in 1852.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Westport Estate Papers, Collection List 78; National Library of Ireland
- Genealogical extracts concerning the Ashworth family, 19th c. M.1115; National Archives of Ireland
- "Photostat" copy of a plan of the Galway salmon fishery extending from Lough Corrib to the sea, belonging to T. Ashworth, 1862. Manuscript map: 16 K. 27 ; National Library of Ireland
Modern printed sources
- ASHWORTH, Rev John Hervey. 'The Saxon in Ireland or the rambles of an Englishman in search of a settlement in the West of Ireland'. London: J. Murray, 1851: All
- MULLOWNEY, Peter. ''The expansion and decline of the O'Donel estate Newport, Co Mayo, 1785-1852''. M.A. thesis, NUI, Maynooth, 2002: Appendix 2
- ''Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'': LANE, Pádraig. Galway and Mayo fisheries in the mid nineteenth century: transferable assets. LXII (2010), 144-156