Clibborn (Moate)
The Clibborns were descended from a soldier in Cromwell’s army who settled at Moate, county Westmeath. Their estate was located in the parishes of Kilmanaghan, Kilcleagh and Ballyloughloe. In the 1870s it amounted to 1,883 acres. The head of the family, Thomas Strettel Clibborn, immigrated to Australia in the early 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Moate View | Killeenboylegan | Kilmanaghan | Athlone | Moate | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N189382
OS Sheet: 30 Discovery map: 48 |
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| Moate Castle | Cartronkeel | Kilcleagh | Athlone | Moate | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N188384
OS Sheet: 30 Discovery map: 48 |
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| Hall | Hall | Kilcleagh | Athlone | Castledaly 13 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N146348
OS Sheet: 36 Discovery map: 48 |
Archival sources
- Papers relating to the Clibborn family of Co. Westmeath, with genealogical accounts of the Barclay and Greer families, etc., 18th and 19th c. M.5451; National Archives of Ireland
- Copies of Hadley (gunsmiths) deeds referring to Hugh Geoghegan of Castletown, Terence and James Geoghegan of Garryduff and James Clibborn of Moate, 1712-1761. GO Ms 800, 3; National Library of Ireland
- Minutes of meetings at Moate and farming accounts of Clibborn family 1881-1883. Ms 5372; National Library of Ireland
- Papers relating to the Crown estate of Clonaltra Wood, Co Westmeath, c 1820-1848 Additional materials relate to copy deeds and memorials from the 1660s to the 1780s. The papers from 1847-1848 relate to the purchase of the estate by James Clibborne. Quit Rent Office QRO/4/3/16; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Athlone Union, 40, 69, 74
- TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 75
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 61 (Moate Castle)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 213 (Hall), 289 (Moate Castle)
Modern printed sources
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Clibborn Papers (from 1761), the property of Mr. H. C. Clibborn, the Castle, Moate, relating to the Clibborn and Simmons families and to lands in Co. Westmeath. No. 213
- O'Brien, Donal. ''The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath''. The author, Athlone (2nd edition 2015): 119, 149, 150