Nugent (Dysart and Portaferry)
The Nugent family of Portaferry, County Down and Dysart, County Westmeath are descended from the Savage family of Portaferry and the Nugents of Dysart. Andrew Savage of Portaferry married Margaret daughter of Andrew Nugent of Dysart, county Westmeath and his wife Lady Katherine, daughter and co-heir of Thomas, 4th Earl of Westmeath. Their grandson Andrew (1770-1846) of Portaferry assumed the name Nugent. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) his son Patrick John Nugent held an estate in the parish of Dysart, County Westmeath amounting to over 2,000 acres. The Nugents’ County Down estate was over 4,500 acres.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Barrettstown | Dysart | Dysart | Mullingar | Dysert 63 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N356484
OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 48 |
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| Dysart House | Dysart | Dysart | Mullingar | Dysert 63 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N376478
OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 48 |
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| Lilliput | Nure or Lilliput | Dysart | Mullingar | Middleton | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N376443
OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 48 |
Archival sources
- Nugent Papers, comprised of c.8,650 documents and c.225 volumes, 1568-1962, deriving from the Portaferry House branch of the Anglo-Norman family of Savage of the Ards, Co. Down, which changed its name to Nugent in 1812 following the succession of Andrew Savage of Portaferry to the Dysart estate, baronies of Moyashel and Magheradernon, Co. Westmeath, of his kinsman, John Nugent of Dysart, 1568-1962. D552; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Correspondence, Papers and Accounts of John Nugent, second son of Andrew Nugent, of Dysart, co. Westmeath, relating mainly to his estate in Montserrat, 1788-1810. PRO 30/26/75/5; National Archives, UK
- Descent and Pedigrees of Nugents of Ballinlough and Dysert and O’Reillys of Ballinlough c 1500-1840. GO Ms 174, 36 and 48; National Library 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: 85
- 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] : 341
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mullingar Union, 39 (Barrettstown); 189 (Dysart)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 592
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 21 (Ballinacor); 265 (Lilliput)
- 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: 243, 250