MacGeough Bond
The MacGeough Bond family lived at Drumsill and The Argory, county Armagh. Walter MacGeough, barrister-at-law, assumed the surname of Bond in 1824. In 1830, he married as his second wife, Anne, third daughter of Ralph Smith of Gaybrook, county Westmeath and died in 1866. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) he held an estate in the county Westmeath parish of Churchtown. This estate amounted to 955 acres in the mid-1870s and was owned by their third son William MacGeough Bond of The Argory, along with 1,421 acres in county Armagh and 75 acres in county Tyrone.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Jamestown House | Jamestown | Churchtown | Mullingar | Churchtown 62 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N347500
OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 48 |
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Archival sources
- Corr and O’Connor, solicitors’ collection. Estate and family papers of MacGeough Bonds of Drumsill and The Argory, Co Armagh, Ballytrustan, Co Down, Churchtown, Co Westmeath and Gloucestereshire, 17th -20th centuries. D288, T524 and D3012/2/2; Public Record Office, Northern 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: 82
- 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] : 45
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mullingar Union, 35 (Jamestown)