Trench (Ballyloughloe)
A number of sons of the Very Rev Thomas Trench, of Glenmalyre, Queen’s County (Laois), Dean of Kildare, and brother of the 1st Baron Ashtown, held land in the county Westmeath parish of Ballyloughloe in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1870s, his grandson [John] Townsend Trench of Kenmare, county Kerry, land agent owned 720 acres in county Westmeath, while the Rev Frederick Trench of Carrickmacross owned 10 acres in county Westmeath.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nahodmore House | Nahod More | Ballyloughloe | Athlone | Carn 6 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N133402
OS Sheet: 30 Discovery map: 48 |
Archival sources
- Disentailing deed by the Rev. Frederick F. Trench, Newtown, Co. Meath (son of Dean Thomas) to John H. Trench, Ballintubber Lodge, Queen’s Co affecting Ballymurry and Nahad, bar. Clonlennon, Co. Westmeath. 4 May 1864. 99/56/10/24/2; National Archives of Ireland
- Plan of Ballymurray, the property of William Trench Esq situate in the Parish of Colry, Barony of Clonlonnon and County of Westmeath Surveyed and drawn by Peter Blake in Oct 1832. 99/56/10/24/1; National Archives 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: 86
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Athlone Union, 58 (Nahodmore)