Dennis (Westmeath)
Thomas Swift of Lynnbury, county Westmeath, born 1711, second son of Meade Swift of Lynn, married Frances only daughter of John Dennis of Kinsale, county Cork by Anne Bullen his wife, sister of Rt Hon John Dennis, created Lord Tracton in 1780. They had two sons the Rev Meade and John, a barrister. When Lord Tracton died without heirs in 1780 he left his estates in counties Kerry and Cork to his two Swift nephews, who both assumed the name Dennis. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) children of the Rev Meade, including the Rev George Meade Dennis, rector of Enniscoffey and Kilbride, held lands in the parishes of Lynn and Mullingar. In the mid-1870s the Rev George M Dennis owned 211 acres in county Westmeath while other family members owned smaller acreages.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Lynnbury | Lynn | Lynn | Mullingar | Belvidere 80 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N427495
OS Sheet: 28 Discovery map: 48 |
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| Ennel Lodge/Fort William | Lynn | Lynn | Mullingar | Belvidere 80 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N433493
OS Sheet: 28 Discovery map: 48 |
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| Belville Cottage | Lynn | Lynn | Mullingar | Belvidere 80 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N428489
OS Sheet: 28 Discovery map: 48 |
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Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 83
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mullingar Union, 145 and 146 (Lynn - Lynnbury, Fort William and Belville Cottage)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 325
Modern printed sources
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Dennis Papers (from 1750), the property of Major-Gen, M. E. Dennis, Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow, relating to the Saunders and Dennis families and to lands in Cos. Westmeath and Wicklow. No. 117
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 145
- O'Brien, Donal. ''The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath''. The author, Athlone (2nd edition 2015): 145