D'Arcy (Grangebeg)
The D’Arcys of Dunmow, county Meath, descended from the D’Arcys of Plattyn. In 1703, the castle, manor, town and lands of Grangebegg and Kilcoline, 853 acres in the barony of Farbill, previously the estate of Nicholas Darcy of Plattin, were bought from the trustees of forfeited estates by Samuel Card, a Dublin merchant, in trust for Arthur Judge, senior, of Mosstown, county Westmeath. Card also purchased over 200 acres in the barony of Moycashell for ‘Mr Judge’. John D’Arcy of Dunmow, born 1700, (an older brother of James D’Arcy of Hyde Park, county Westmeath) married in 1727 Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Judge of Grangebeg, parish of Killucan, county Westmeath. The eldest son of John and Elizabeth, Judge D’Arcy, married in 1765 Elizabeth daughter and heiress of Richard Nugent of Robinstown, parish of Carrick, county Westmeath. Their only child Elizabeth married in 1788 Major Gorges Marcus Irvine of Castle Irvine, county Fermanagh and had a family of five sons and five daughters. The eldest son William D’Arcy Irvine adopted the surname D’arcy and the sale of his county Meath estate of Dunmow and his county Westmeath estates of Grangebeg and Robinstown took place in the Encumbered Estates Court on 7 May 1850. The purchasers were James William Middleton Berry (Grangebeg) and George A Boyd (Robinstown). From 1850 this family’s property interests were in county Fermanagh.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Grange Beg House | Grange Beg | Killucan | Castletowndelvin | Riverdale 44 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N609515
OS Sheet: 21 Discovery map: 42 |
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Archival sources
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), D’Arcy, 7 May 1850, Vol 1 (27), MRGS 39/001, (microfilm copy in UG); National Archives of Ireland
- Pedigree of D’Arcy of Lincolnshire, Co Meath and of Grangebeg and Hyde Park, Co Westmeath, C 1066-1928. GO Ms 168, 350, 364-373; National Library of Ireland
- Pedigree of Judge of Ballykeeny, Mosstown and Grangebegg, Co Westmeath and King’s Co, c 1650-1914. GO Ms 182, 186-190 and GO Ms 165, 221-222; National Library of Ireland
- D’Arcy Papers, papers re the estate of Thomas Judge of Grangebeg, Ms 44,525; National Library of Ireland
- Copy of petition of Arthur Judge, the younger, of Tristernagh, eldest son of Arthur Judge, the elder, of Mosstowne, for divorce from his wife Maria, daughter of Henry Piers of Lowbaskin, c 1700. GO Ms 808, 9; National Library of Ireland
- Detailed abstracts of wills of Judge of Mosstown, Co Westmeath and of Windgrove, Co Kildare and Dublin, 1728-1790. GO Ms 141, 308-309; National Library of Ireland
- Petition of Arthur Judge of Tristernagh for leave to bring in a bill to dissolve his marriage, 26 Feb 1708. House of Lords Mss New Series Vol VII, 1921, 561-562; King's Inn Library