Nugent (Bobsgrove/Farren Connell)
According to Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland (1904) this family is descended from the 12th Baron Delvin and was settled at Enagh (borders Bobsgrove) in county Cavan in the mid-17th century. Christopher Edmond John Nugent (1777-1853) of Bobsgrove and his wife Sophia Rathborne had six sons. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation the representatives of Christopher Nugent held six townlands in the parish of Kilbride while his third son the Reverend Edmond Nugent, vicar of Denn, held land in the parish of Denn and his grandson Edmond held land in the parish of Castlerahan. Christopher Nugent’s eventual male successor was his youngest son, Major General St George Mervyn Nugent of Farren Connell, who owned 1,832 acres in county Cavan in 1876. He died in 1884 and was succeeded by his son Major Oliver Stewart Wood Nugent.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Bob's Grove/Farren Connell | Bobsgrove | Kilbride | Oldcastle | Kilbride | Clanmahon | Cavan |
OSI Ref: N479824
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Archival sources
- Nugent, family of: Nugent Papers (from 1488) the property of Lady Nugent, Farrenconnell, Mountnugent, Co. Cavan, relating to the Nugent family and to lands in Cos. Westmeath Meath and Cavan. P8649; National Library of Ireland
- A collection of bardic poetry in Irish, entitled An Duanaire Nuinseannach, and compiled early 17th c. (for Eduard Nuinsaond?) with many later notes added on the family of Nugent of Bobsgrove, co. Cavan. Ms. G. 992; National Library of Ireland
- Farren Connell Papers. The archive of the Nugent family of Farren Connell, Co. Cavan, comprised of records relating to their estates in Cos Cavan and Westmeath, and their careers, mainly in the army. 1488-1963. D3835; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Oldcastle Union, 69
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 72
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 54
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 205
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 440
- ''Analecta Hibernica'': Nugent Papers (from 1488), the property of Lady Nugent, Farrenconnell, Mountnugent, Co. Cavan, relating to the Nugent family, Barons of Delvin and Earls of Westmeath, and to lands in Cos. Westmeath, Meath and Cavan. No. 20, 1958
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Nugent Papers, No 166
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: 1414-1417