Adamson (Moate)

The Adamson family were established in the Moate area of county Westmeath from at least the late eighteenth century. In the mid-nineteenth century the representatives of William [Graham] Adamson and Misses Adamson held land in the parish of Ballyloughloe while Robert Adamson [of Carnpark] held a townland in the parish of Kilcleagh. Travers Adamson, son of Travers Adamson, barrister-at-law of Carn Park, county Westmeath and Victoria, Australia, died in 1897, aged 70, having married Catherine Synott in August 1873. Carn Park and other lands belonging to the Adamson family were for sale in the Landed Estates Court in June 1870. Charles Graham Adamson of Auburn was the youngest son of George Archibald Graham Adamson, who had purchased Auburn in 1864 from William Henry Daniel. By his first marriage, G.A.G. Adamson had a son, Henry Graham and by his second marriage a son, George Percival. In the 1870s George Adamson of Auburn owned 487 acres in county Westmeath and over 1000 acres in Kings County (Offaly) while Robert Adamson of Mountplunkett owned 145 acres in the county and 450 acres in county Roscommon. See 'Irish Law Times' (1897), 180.

Associated Families

Adamson (Moate)

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	County	Map Ref
Auburn	Auburn	Kilkenny West	Athlone	Auburn 5	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N106500 OS Sheet: 22 Discovery map: 40
Bellanalack	Bellanalack	Ballyloughloe	Athlone	Bellanalack 12	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N152398 OS Sheet: 30 Discovery map: 48
Carn Park	Carnpark	Ballyloughloe	Athlone	Carn 6	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N129411 OS Sheet: 30 Discovery map: 48
Nahodmore House	Nahod More	Ballyloughloe	Athlone	Carn 6	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N133402 OS Sheet: 30 Discovery map: 48
Farnagh	Farnagh	Kilcleagh	Athlone	Bellanalack 12	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N155379 OS Sheet: 36 Discovery map: 48
Mosstown	Mosstown Demesne	Killare	Mullingar	Killare 65	Westmeath	OSI Ref: N261461 OS Sheet: 24 Discovery map: 48

Archival sources

Copy of will of J Adamson, Moate, Aug 1821. Upton Papers No 9; Royal Irish Academy Library
Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Leslie, Homan and Adamson, 17 June 1870, Vol 97 (43), MRGS 39/046, (microfilm copy in UG); National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

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] : 3
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 82
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Athlone Union, 48 (Bellanalack); 49 (Carnpark)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 142 (Bellanalack and Carn Park); II, 60 (Farnagh)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 91 (Carn Park); 305 (Nahodmore)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 369 (Mosstown)

Modern printed sources

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Walker Papers (from 1726), in the custody of Mr. H. J. Walker, solicitor, Athlone relating to Athlone Corporation, the Adamson, Handcock, Kelly, Longworth, Robinson and Rochfort families and to lands in Cos. Roscommon and Westmeath. No. 196
''The Genealogists' Magazine'': Descent of Adamson of Ballinalack, Co Westmeath. IX, No 5, Sept 1941
O'Brien, Donal. ''The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath''. The author, Athlone (2nd edition 2015): 20 (Auburn); 44 (Carn Park); 105 (Farnagh); 158 (Nahodmore)
WALFORD. ''County Families of the United Kingdom''. London: Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., 1910: 6