Vignoles
A French Huguenot family who settled in Ireland at the end of the 17th century. The Rev John Vignoles, born 1740 married Anna Honoria daughter of the Rev Lancelot Low and ministered at Portarlington for many years. His eldest son the Very Rev Charles Augustus Vignoles, Dean of Ossory, was the principle lessor of 11 townlands in the parish of Newtown, county Westmeath, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854). In the mid-1870s his estate amounted to 999 acres in the county with a further 187 acres in Queen’s County (Laois). He died in 1877 and was succeeded by his grandson Charles Howard Vignoles of Cornahir, Tyrrellpass.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Cornaher | Cornaher | Newtown | Mullingar | Newtown 102 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N391356
OS Sheet: 38 Discovery map: 48 |
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| Ballynagore House | Knockycosker | Newtown | Mullingar | Ballynagore 97 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N358397
OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 48 |
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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] : 460
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 87
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mullingar Union, 115 (Cornaher); 118 (Knockycosker)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 434
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 131