L'Estrange (Keoltown)
The Irish L’Estranges are a junior branch of a Norfolk family. Early generations lived at Castle Strange, county Roscommon. A descendant Toriano Francis L’Estrange of 71st Regiment of the Coldstream Guards married Jane Martha a daughter of Thomas Mulock of Kilnagarna, County Offaly. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) he was the immediate lessor of three townlands in the parish of Mullingar. In 1850 he is recorded as the tenant of Lynn Lodge when the lodge was advertised for sale. He held the property on a lease from Richard Swift, dated 1841, for 900 years. His son Thomas, a Belfast solicitor, owned 976 acres in county Westmeath in the mid-1870s. The estate (455 acres) of Francis L’Estrange at Keoltown, parish of Mullingar was advertised for sale in March 1851. The L’Estranges held Keoltown for the previous hundred and fifty years at least, under a lease renewable for ever, dated 1701. see also http://www.bomford.net/IrishBomfords/Chapters/Chapter15/Chapter15.htm
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Larkfield House | Clonmoyle | Lynn | Mullingar | Russellstown | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N478488
OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 48 |
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| Lynn Lodge | Lynn | Lynn | Mullingar | Belvidere 80 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N438511
OS Sheet: 28 Discovery map: 41 |
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| Lakefield/Keoltown House | Keoltown | Mullingar | Mullingar | Hopestown | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N388496
OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 48 |
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Archival sources
- About 200 documents relating to the estate of Thomas L'Estrange at Cartronganny, Clownstown and Windtown, Co. Westmeath, c. 1850-1917. D. 1094; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Molloy and Swift, 2 July 1850, Vol 2 (1), MRGS 39/001, (microfilm copy in UG); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Lestrange/L’Estrange, 21 Mar 1851, Vol 6 (20), MRGS 39/003, (microfilm copy in UG); National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), L’Estrange, 24 April 1860, Vol 58 (57), MRGS 39/029, (microfilm copy in UG); National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Walsh, 26 Nov 1875, Vol 121 (32), MRGS 39/055, (microfilm copy in UG) Killynan (Pratt); National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Kelly, Henn, O’Grady, 14 June 1878, Vol 132 (21), MRGS 39/059, (microfilm copy in UG) ref to Keoltown; National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Barnes, Bayly, Bridges etc., 4 July 1874, Vol 116 (12), MRGS 39/051, (microfilm copy in UG) ref to Violetstown; 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] : 270
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mullingar Union, 143 (Clonmoyle)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 84
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 226 (Keoltown)
- 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: 250 (Larkfield occupied by Ford Esq)