Tuthill (Hightown)
Charles Tuthill purchased 1,062 acres in the townland of Balloughter or Hightown in the parish of Killucan, county Westmeath, from John Bateman in the Encumbered Estates Court in June 1851 (The Boston Pilot, Vol 11, No 29, 19 July 1851). Charles Tuthill, a barrister, of Newstead Abbey, Milltown, county Dublin, owned 1,065 acres in county Westmeath and 159 in county Meath in the mid-1870s. The Kings Inn Admissions Papers 1607-1867, list a Charles Tuthill, third son of John Tuthill of 38 Richmond Street, Dublin and Mary Beere. Walker’s Hibernian Magazine records the marriage of John Tuthill and Miss Beere in 1806. Their son Charles was aged 23 on 22 June 1833.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Bateman, 20 June 1851, Vol 8 (21), MRGS 39/004, (microfilm copy in UG); 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: 87
- 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] : 453