Loftus (Kilbride)
The Loftus family of Kilbride, county Wicklow, were a junior branch of the Loftus family, Earls of Ely. Lieut General William Francis Bentinck Loftus of Kilbride married Margaret Harriett Langrishe in 1819. He died in 1852 and was succeeded by his son William James. The General’s eldest daughter Mary Harriet Anne married G A C Onslow and they were the parents of the 4th Earl of Onslow. The Hon Captain John Loftus held two townlands (Drumloose and Brottonstown) in the parish of Mullingar, county Westmeath at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854). In the mid-1870s the Hon Mrs Margaret Loftus of Westcott, Dorking, owned 704 acres in the county. In January 1879 about 675 acres (Drumloose, Brottonstown Little and Ballygarrett), held on leases from Mrs Margaret Harriett Loftus (formerly Langrishe) to Mrs Esther Murray from the late 1860s and early 1870s were for sale in the Landed Estates Court by trustees under the will of Lieut General Loftus. The sale included other lands in counties Dublin and Armagh.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Estate Papers of the 4th and 5th Earls Onslow – Loftus Irish Estates Co Westmeath, 1320/24/1/; Surrey History Centre
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Loftus, 21 Jan 1879, Vol 135 (12), MRGS 39/060, (microfilm copy in UG); 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] : 227
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 84