Blacker (Booterstown)
The Blackers were settled at Carrick in county Armagh from the 16th century. In the 1850s the Reverend Beaver Blacker, rector of Booterstown, county Dublin, held the townland of Ballynamona, 341 acres in the parish of Moybulgue, county Cavan. He was a grandson of Beaver Blacker who died in 1808. In 1876, the Reverend Richard [Beaver H.] Blacker of Blackrock is recorded as the owner of 341 acres in county Cavan. In 1878, the Reverend Beaver Henry Blacker of Cheltenham and Lisnahanna, county Tyrone, was the owner of 1,291 acres in county Tyrone.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Rentals and accounts of Rev Beaver H. Blacker for Ballynamona, Co Cavan, 1856-1885. M.5405; National Archives of Ireland
- Pedigree of Blacker, of Carrick, Tanderagee and Tynan, all in Co. Armagh c.1597 1821. GO: Ms.169, pp.300-5; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 216
- 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] : 36