Joule
Benjamin St. John Joule, the son of a Manchester brewer and industrialist, was recorded as the owner of over 4000 acres in County Donegal in the 1870s. The property included Tory Island. Joule's estate was highlighted by the Quaker philanthropist, James Hack Tuke, as the site of tenant ill-treatment and evictions. He was the brother of James Prescott Joule, physicist. The estate had been purchased from Benjamin Joule by the Congested Districts Board by1903.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: p.227
- 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] : p.240.
- Tuke, James H. ''Irish distress and its remedies: a visit to Donegal and Connaught in 1880.'' (London: 1880). : p.27.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''14th Annual Report of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland [Cd.2757], 1906'': p.128.