Mortimer
In 1667, James Mortimer was granted 1,205 acres in the barony of Castlerahan, county Cavan, including Cloghabeg and a small acreage in county Meath. A further grant of small acreages in the same two counties was given in December 1669. The Belfast Monthly Magazine, III, 401, records the marriage in 1810 of David Mortimer of Lakeview and Miss O’Reilly, daughter of Counsellor O’Reilly of Eccles Street, Dublin. In the mid-19th century Charles Mortimer continued to hold an estate at Lakeview in the parish of Mullagh and William Mortimer held the townland of Lislin. Charles Mortimer married Abigail Eleanor daughter of the Reverend Charles Atkinson Caffry, rector of Mullagh, and their eldest son was David Atkinson Mortimer of Lakeview. In 1876, David A. Mortimer owned 817 acres in county Cavan. He married twice but had no children and the estate passed to his nephew Gerald Mortimer who married Aileen Eleanor Levinge. Lakeview is now the home of Jonathan and Daphne Levinge Shackleton. see https://daphnelevingeshackleton.wordpress.com/13-2/
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Lakeview (Mullagh) | Cloghballybeg | Mullagh | Kells | Mullagh | Castlerahan | Cavan |
OSI Ref: N671854
OS Sheet: 40 Discovery map: 35 |
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Archival sources
- Farnham Papers, Manuscript List 95, include some letters from Mortimers.; National Library of 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] : 328
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 94 & 192
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kells Union, 12
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 259
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 409
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 203
Modern printed sources
- WALFORD. ''County Families of the United Kingdom''. London: Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., 1910: 100
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Mortimer Papers from 1761, relating to the Mortimer and Smith families and to lands in Co Cavan, No 92.
- MULLIGAN, Kevin V. ''The Buildings of Ireland South Ulster, Armagh, Cavan and Monaghan'', (New Haven and London, 2013): 492