Briscoe (Riverdale)
A family of Elizabethan settlers based at the manor of Rathleen, King’s County (Offaly) at the beginning of the 18th century. Edward John Briscoe, born 1770, is described as ‘of Riverdale, county Westmeath and of Screggan, King’s County’. He married Frances daughter of Thomas Fetherstonhaugh of Bracklyn, county Westmeath (Burke's Landed Gentry 1904, although this marriage is not recorded in the Fetherstonhaugh entry). From their two eldest sons descend the Briscoes of Riverdale and the Briscoes of Grangemore and Lakeview. Griffith’s Valuation for county Westmeath (publ. 1854) records the Briscoe estate in the parishes of Killulagh and Killucan. Lands held by John Fetherstonhaugh Briscoe at Baskin High and Low with other lands amounting to 378 acres held in fee simple were for sale in the Landed Estates Court in July 1878 and again in February 1884 after the death of John F Briscoe. In the 1870s Edward John Briscoe of Riverdale and Screggan, owned 2,836 acres in King’s County while John E Briscoe of Grangemore, Killucan owned 379 acres in county Westmeath.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Curristown | Curristown | Killucan | Mullingar | Killucan 71 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N580516
OS Sheet: 20 Discovery map: 42 |
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| Grange More House | Grange More | Killucan | Castletowndelvin | Riverdale 44 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N611543
OS Sheet: 21 Discovery map: 42 |
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| Riverdale | Riverdale | Killucan | Castletowndelvin | Riverdale 44 | Westmeath |
OSI Ref: N616510
OS Sheet: 28 Discovery map: 42 |
Archival sources
- Dopping-Hepenstal Papers. Lease of Altidore Ralph A. Dopping-Hepenstal to John Fetherstonhaugh Briscoe, Grangemore, Co Westmeath For 10 years, at £380 a r. 8 June 1875. Ms. 35,845 (7); National Library of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Briscoe, 2 July 1878, Vol 133 (14), MRGS 39/059, (microfilm copy in UG); National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Briscoe, 29 Feb 1884, Vol 146 (21), MRGS 39/064, (microfilm copy in UG); National Archives of Ireland
- Thirty-five deeds relating to the property of the Briscoe family in Counties Meath, Westmeath, Kildare and Offaly, 1703, 1789-1845, including will of J. Briscoe, 1771 and T. Walker, 1799. D. 10,165-99; National Library of Ireland
- Survey of Ballykilinn (Ballygillin) and Williamstown, barony of Delvin, belonging to Edward Briscoe, by J Boyan, with names of tenants, 1833. 21 F. 80 (28); National Library of Ireland
- A map of the demense of Riverdale part of the lands of Grange Beg in the barony of Farbill and County of Westmeath let by Richard Allen to [illegible] Brisco Surveyed 11th Sept. 1795. Scale 20 perches to an inch. Notes on the nature of the land. 21 F 47 (36); National Library 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: 82
- 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] : 53
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 156 (Grangemore and Riverdale)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Castletowndelvin Union, 80 (Grange More); 83 (Riverdale)