Harman/King-Harman (Newcastle)
The King-Harman family were the owners of a large estate at Newcastle in the 19th century. The King family, Viscounts Lorton and Earls of Kingston, acquired an interest in the estate through the marriage of Lady Jane King, daughter of the earl of Kingston with Laurence Parsons-Harman in 1772. At the time of Griffiths Valuation in the early 1850s, they were among the principal lessors in the civil parishes of Agharra, Cashel, Columbkille, Kilcommock, Kilglass, Killashee, Killoe, Noughaval, Shrule, Taghshinny and Taghsheenod in the baronies of Abbeyshrule, Granard, Longford, Rathcline and Shrule in County Longford. The Longford estate of Laurence King-Harman, with an address at Rockingham, near Boyle, County Roscommon, was recorded as almost 29,000 acres in the 1870s. The Westmeath estate consisted of lands in the parish of Ballymore, barony of Rathconrath, and amounted to over 1200 acres in the 1870s. In 1862 property adjacent to Ballymahon, County Longford was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court by Travers Robert Blackley, a trustee of the marriage settlement of Saumarez du Bourdieu. This property had been the subject of a fee-farm grant from Laurence King-Harman in 1857. Purdon indicates that a member of the du Bourdieu family settled in Longford, having married a Miss Brown. In 1879 lands in the parish of Noughaval, barony of Shrule, County Longford, the property of James E. Wright, were offered for sale in the Land Judges Court. These were held on a 1748 lease from Frances Harman to James Wright and Thomas Jessop.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Rossana House | Ballaghkeeran Little | Kilkenny West | Athlone | Glassan 7 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N075445
OS Sheet: 22 Discovery map: 47 |
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| Mosstown (Ballymahon) | Mosstown | Kilcommock | Ballymahon | Kilcommock | Longford |
OSI Ref: N113639
OS Sheet: 22 Discovery map: 40 |
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| Glenmore (Moydow) | Glenmore | Kilcommock | Ballymahon | Kilcommock | Longford |
OSI Ref: N137633
OS Sheet: 23 Discovery map: 41 |
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| Laurel Lodge (Ballymahon) | Glenmore | Kilcommock | Ballymahon | Kilcommock | Longford |
OSI Ref: N142628
OS Sheet: 23 Discovery map: 41 |
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| Laurel Lodge (Shrule) | Mullawornia | Shrule | Ballymahon | Ballymahon | Longford |
OSI Ref: N132592
OS Sheet: 22 Discovery map: 41 |
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| Sunfield House | Rathsallagh | Abbeyshrule | Ballymahon | Agharra | Longford |
OSI Ref: N235620
OS Sheet: 23 Discovery map: 41 |
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| Castlecore/Castlecor House (Ballymahon) | Castlecore | Shrule | Ballymahon | Ballymahon | Longford |
OSI Ref: N137571
OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 41 |
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| Gortmore [Longfield] House (Ballymahon) | Goremore | Noughaval | Ballymahon | Noughaval | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N178508
OS Sheet: 16 Discovery map: 41 |
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| Clooncallow House | Clooncallow | Forgney | Ballymahon | Forgney | Longford |
OSI Ref: N176563
OS Sheet: 27 Discovery map: 41 |
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| Forgney House | Forgney | Forgney | Ballymahon | Forgney | Longford |
OSI Ref: N199560
OS Sheet: 27 Discovery map: 41 |
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| Newcastle House (Ballymahon) | Newcastle | Forgney | Ballymahon | Forgney | Longford |
OSI Ref: N184569
OS Sheet: 27 Discovery map: 41 |
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| Cartron House (Ballymahon) | Cartron | Noughaval | Ballymahon | Forgney | Longford |
OSI Ref: N150546
OS Sheet: 27 Discovery map: 41 |
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| Rathmore House (Ballymahon) | Rathmore | Noughaval | Ballymahon | Ballymahon | Longford |
OSI Ref: N146546
OS Sheet: 27 Discovery map: 41 |
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Archival sources
- Collection mostlyconcerns estate management: rent books, 1838-1919; account books, 1846-1948; a book with details of valuations of properties (possibly a draft of Griffith’s Valuation), undated; items concerning tenant purchase, 1902-1910; an inventory of Newcastle House, 1911; Sale Catalogue 1951.; County Longford Archives Service
- Maps and surveys of the King-Harman estate, 1755-1850. M.1897, M.1911-1912, M.1309, 1311, 1314, M.1918, 1921, 1923.; National Archives of Ireland
- Rental records, c.1757-c.1846 M.1259-1278-M.1308, M.1311, M.1865; National Archives of Ireland
- Rentals of King-Harman estates in Longford & Westmeath, mid-late 19th century. Microfilm copy of documents in Westmeath County Library.; National Library of Ireland
- Estate improvement book, notebooks and account books of Ambrose Bole, agent for King-Harman estate, c.1842-1902. M. 14103-14,109, M.18238-18241, M.25,051, M.25,053,; National Library of Ireland
- Rental of King-Harman estate, Co. Longford and Co. Westmeath, 1854-5. Labour accounts King-Harman estate, Co. Longford, 1873-4; 1890-91. Rental of estates Co. Longford and Co. Westmeath, 1897.; Westmeath County Library
- Typed inventory and valuation of the contents of Newcastle, Ballymahon, Co. Longford, the residence of Col. W. H. King-Harman, 1911.; Westmeath County Library
- Bole family, Park Place, Tashinny, land agents: account books, 1849-1904; County Longford Archives Service
- Notebooks listing details of tenancies on Lord Lorton's estate in County Longford,.c1847. Ms. 18,244.; National Library of Ireland
- Dimond papers: Surveys of holdings in County Longford, some on Lord Lorton's estate, with notes re ability of tenants to pay rent, 1849-50. Ms.18246.; National Library of Ireland
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Blackley, 8 Jul 1862, Vol 66, MRGS 39/033, (microfilm copy in University of Galway Library); National Archives of Ireland
- Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Wright, 13 Jun 1879, Vol 136, MRGS 39/060-61, (microfilm copy in NUIG);; National Archives of Ireland
- Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Wright, 19 Dec 1879, Vol 136, MRGS 39/060-61, (microfilm copy in NUIG);; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Ballymahon Union: p.p.26 (Mosstown, p.38 (Mullawornia), p.44 (Glenmore), p.72 (Rathsallagh), p.79 (Forgney), p.80 (Newcastle), p.85 (Cartron), p.90 (Rathmore), Ballymahon Union (County Westmeath): p.17 (Gortmore), p.19 (Noughaval).
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.II, p.65 (Rathmore)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: p.149 (Ballymahon Rural District, Newcastle)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Athlone Union, 18 (Rossana)
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1912: pp.296-297 (Harman of Newcastle)
- O'Brien, Donal. ''The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath''. The author, Athlone (2nd edition 2015): p.115 (Gortmore)
- ''Ulster Journal of Archaeology'': Purdon, Charles. The French settlers in Ireland, II: the Huguenot colony at Lisburn. First series. Vol.I (1853), pp.291-293.