Irwin (Bilberry Hill)
Walker's Hibernian Magazine (Vol MDCCXC, 192) records the marriage of Daniel Irwin of Bilberry Hill, county Cavan and Miss E. Faris of Cloncorick in February 1790. David Irwin of Bilberry Hill, county Cavan, was recorded by Ambrose Leet in his directory of 1814. In the 1830s, William Irwin of Bilberry Hill, parish of Kildallan, county Cavan, was the County Coroner. He died in 1834, aged 43. David Irwin of Bilberry Hill was a cess payer in 1847. Members of the Irwin family are buried in the Kildallan Church of Ireland graveyard. Thomas ‘Irvine’ is recorded in Griffith’s Valuation as the main lessor of Doogary (318 acres) and Mullaghmore (450 acres) in the parish of Kildallan. In 1876, he owned 777 acres in county Cavan. This surname is sometimes spelt Irvine.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Lease made between Robert Faris, Rockvile, county Cavan, esquire, and John Faris, Carin, county Cavan, esquire, in respect of the lands of Drummany (Drumany), county Cavan, now in the possession of William Irwin, esquire, and his undertenants and cottagers. Lease to run for one year. Rent of one peppercorn if demanded, 30 March 1775. P017/0020; Cavan County Archives Service, Small Private Collections
- David Irwin, Bilberry, Co. Cavan, Robert Pringle, Mulnagolm, Co. Cavan, James Faris, Aghavore, Co. Cavan, Blakely Huggins, Kildallen, Co. Cavan, Draft Assignment and Partition, Mulmagolman, Co. Cavan. October 1817. D980/20/1; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Armstrong family of Co. Limerick, Cavan, Leitrim, Monahgan, Kings County, etc; typescript, including: Abstract of Kilmore will of William Armstrong; to be buried in Drumreilly; lease of Longfield to his wife Mary and daughter Sarah provided they remain members of the Church of England; £220 of St Croix currency bequeathed to him by David Irwin and now in the hands of his son William Armstrong of St Croix to go to 2 daughters Elizabeth Keirnan and Mary Goodfellow. 16 January 1810. T808/502; Public Record Office, Northern 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] : 232
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 69
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 218