Hearn (Correagh)
Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) records Elizabeth ‘Heron’ as the immediate lessor of the townland of Correagh and part of the townland of Kilbeg in the parish of Ardnurcher or Horseleap, county Westmeath. The house valued at £6.10. was inhabited by Loughlin Clavin. Elizabeth Hearn was the daughter of Richard Holmes of Prospect and Garryduff, Moycashel, county Westmeath and his wife Anne Arbuthnot of Rockfleet, county Mayo. In 1815 she married Lieut Col Daniel J Hearn of Correagh (died 1837) and they had a family of seven children. Samuel Lewis in 1837 records that Correagh was not inhabited. In 1849, their eldest son Charles Bush Hearn (1818-1866) married a Greek, Rosa Cassimati and they were the parents of Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), the well-known writer of books on Japan. In November 1865, the estate of Charles Bush Hearn at Correagh and Kilbeg, 593 acres, was for sale in the Landed Estates Court and again in November 1867.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Hearn, 9 Nov 1865, Vol 78 (76), MRGS 39/038, (microfilm copy in UG); National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Hearn, 8 Nov 1867, Vol 87 (8), MRGS 39/042, (microfilm copy in UG); National Archives of Ireland
- Copy of confirmation of arms to descendants of Lt Col Daniel James Hearn of Correa, Co Westmeath, grandson of the Ven Daniel Hearn, Archdeacon of Cashel 1726-1766 and to grandchildresn of the Said Lt Col Hearn, Rev Daniel James Hearn, rector of Kilmurry in Co Cork and Charles Richard Hearn of Blackrock, Co Dublin, 14 Oct 1880. GO Ms 110, 7-8; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 51
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Tullamore Union, 194 (Correagh)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 51