Hughes (Drumlumman)
In the mid-19th century Henry George Hughes, son of James Hughes and his wife Margaret Morton, held an estate of five townlands in the parish of Drumlumman, county Cavan. H.G. Hughes was prominent in the Dublin legal circle, first as Queen’s Counsel and later as Solicitor General of Ireland and a Baron of the Exchequer. He was MP for Longford in 1856. He married Sarah L’Estrange and they had two daughters, one of whom was married to Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin. He died in 1872 and in 1878 Mrs Sarah Hughes of Cornadrung, Granard, county Longford, owned 924 acres in county Cavan (parish of Drumlumman) and 879 acres in county Longford, while the representatives of the Hon. Baron Killanin held 217 acres in county Cavan. Much of the Longford estate was situated in the parish of Colmbkille, barony of Granard.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Cornadrung Cottage | Cornadrung | Columbkille | Granard | Columbkille | Longford |
OSI Ref: N277909
OS Sheet: 3 Discovery map: 34 |
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| Viewmount House (Longford) | Knockahaw | Templemichael | Longford | Longford Rural | Longford |
OSI Ref: N151747
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 41 |
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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] : 225
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 218
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Longford Union, p.68 (Knockahaw)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: p.53 (Longford)
Modern printed sources
- ''Breifne'': The Burrowes-Hughes By-election (for County Cavan, April, 1855). Vol. III, No. 10, pp. 175-212, 1967