Metge (Dardistown)
The Metges were a Huguenot family – Pierre Metgé settled at Athlumney, county Meath in the early 18th century. His son Peter was MP for Ardee 1776 and for Boyle 1783. Peter’s son John was MP for Dundalk and Deputy Auditor General of the Irish Treasury. By his second wife Henrietta, a daughter of Henry Cole Bowen of Bowen’s Court, he had two sons Peter of Athlumney and John Charles of Dardistown, county Westmeath and Sion, county Meath. John Charles married Eliza Cole and they had two sons and two daughters. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation [publ. 1854] John C ‘Medge’ was a principle lessor in the Westmeath parish of Killagh. His county Westmeath estate amounted to 968 acres in the mid-1870s, while his older brother Peter Ponsonby Metge owned 788 acres in county Meath. Francis Burton Metge succeeded his father at Dardistown and married Anne Cole Bowen.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Ladywell | Bunown | Bunown | Athlone | Glassan 7 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N074471
OS Sheet: 22 Discovery map: 47 |
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| Creggan House | Creggan Upper | St Mary's | Athlone | Tubbrit 4 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N077396
OS Sheet: 29 Discovery map: 47 |
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| Southhill | Southhill | Castletowndelvin | Castletowndelvin | Rosmead 37 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N616627
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 42 |
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| Dardistown | Dardistown | Killagh | Castletowndelvin | Killulagh 43 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N571582
OS Sheet: 13 Discovery map: 42 |
Archival sources
- Declaration by Francis B.C. Metge concerning ownership of lands of Lewinstown, Ballyowen, Dardistown, Graftonstown and Camoge, bar. Delvin, Co. Westmeath, with rental of lands annexed and various bonds, 1879-1880. 999/284/4; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 85
- 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] : 316
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Castletowndelvin Union, 28 (Dardistown)