Landed Estates
University of Galway

Stuart (Castlereagh)

In 1876, the Viscountess Stuart is recorded as the owner of 2,260 acres in county Cavan while in 1878 Hussey de Burgh records the Earl of Castlestewart as the owner of 2,260 acres in county Cavan and 32,615 acres in county Tyrone. Henry James Richardson Stuart, 5th Earl, succeeded his father in 1874 and married in 1866 Augusta Le Vicomte Massy-Richardson, only child and heir of Major Richardson-Brady of Oaklands, county Tyrone. The county Cavan estate appears to have come into the possession of the Earl through his wife. Her father William Stewart Richardson-Brady held a townland in the county Cavan parish of Kilmore in the 1850s.

Associated Families

No houses were found for this estate

Archival sources

  • Estate and family papers, 1500-1908, including the Cavan estate 1838-1908. D1618, D2002; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Additional estate and family papers, including material relating to the estates in Cos Cavan and Tyrone of the Richardson family of Drum, 1723-1945. D1618; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Box of title deeds, deeds of settlement, wills, etc, re the Tyrone and the Cavan estates or to no estate in particular. The earliest documents are the probate of William S. Richardson Brady of Drum, and the key marriage settlement of 1866. Many of the documents relate to the daughters of the Richardson-Castle Stewart marriage, Ladies Muriel Close and Mary Clough Taylor, who became the co-heiresses of the estate on the death of their father, the 5th Earl Castle Stewart, in 1914. 1864-1935. D1618/4/9.; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Box of Irish Land Commission sale papers in relation to the Co. Cavan estate.c 1903-1940. D1618/4/13,; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland

Contemporary printed sources