Tighe (Mitchelstown)
In 1666, Alderman Richard Tighe of the city of Dublin was granted over 2,000 acres in Delvin, county Westmeath. This family descend from Richard Tighe of Kilpatrick, county Westmeath and his wife Mabella daughter of Robert Stearne of Tullynally, county Westmeath. Their son Robert Tighe (1686-1766) purchased Mitchelstown, Castletowndelvin and other lands from ‘his kinsman’ Richard Tighe [of Woodstock, county Kilkenny]. Robert was succeeded by his grandson Robert Stearne Tighe. In 1785 he married Catherine only daughter and heir of Colonel Hugh Morgan of Cottlestown, county Sligo and died in 1853. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) his representatives held an estate in the parish of Clonarney, county Westmeath, amounting to 1,809 acres in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Mitchelstown | Mitchelstown | Castletowndelvin | Castletowndelvin | Rosmead 37 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N617633
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 42 |
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| Southhill | Southhill | Castletowndelvin | Castletowndelvin | Rosmead 37 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N616627
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 42 |
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| Sheepstown House | Stonestown | Clonarney | Castletowndelvin | Clonarney | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N543558
OS Sheet: 8 Discovery map: 42 |
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| Gartlandstown House | Gartlandstown | Faughalstown | Castletowndelvin | Kilpatrick 30 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N481632
OS Sheet: 12 Discovery map: 41 |
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Archival sources
- A map of bog land in Roomead Clonmaskill Crownstown, with references to previous surveys of the Down Survey and Scalè's map; and a map of part of Mitchelstown in the barony of Fore and County of Westmeath done for Robert Tighe. By J.B. 1790. Scale 20 perches to an inch. 21 F 48 (12); National Library of Ireland
- Relating to properties in Mitchellstown, Muckeltown, Ellentown, Castletown, Clonmaskill, Sheepstown, Stowestown and Scurlogstown in co. Westmeath, and Kernanstown in co. Carlow, forming part of the settlement on the marriage of William Frederick Fownes Tighe and Lady Louisa Madelina Lennox, dau. of Charles, 4th Duke of Richmond. 28 Aug, 17 Dec 1838. GOODWOOD/306-308; West Sussex Record Office
- Leases of Brownstown and other lands in barony of Delvin, Co Westmeath, from Sir William King and John Nugent to Richard Tighe, 1672, 1674, 1675. D 9613-9615; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 67
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Castletowndelvin Union, 17 (Mitchelstown); 23 (Stonestown)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 310
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 175, 194, 388