Lefroy (Carrickglass)
Burke writes that the Lefroys were originally a Huguenot family who settled in the Canterbury area of England. A descendent of this family, Anthony Peter Lefroy, was posted to Ireland in his army role and later married Ann Gardiner of the Doonass family. Their son, Thomas Langlois Lefroy, (1776-1869) served as Chief Justice in Ireland and is also remembered for an association with the English author, Jane Austen. He purchased Carrigglass Manor in County Longford and was among the principal lessors in the parish of Killoe and Templemichael, baronies of Ardagh and Longford, at the time of Griffiths Valuation in the early 1850s. In the 1870s the Lefroy estate amounted to over 4000 acres in County Longford as well as over 300 acres in County Kilkenny.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Carrigglas Manor (Carrickglass) | Carrickglass Demese | Templemichael | Longford | Cloonee | Longford |
OSI Ref: N166775
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 41 |
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Contemporary printed sources
- 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] : p.265
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: p.53
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Longford Union, p.64 (Carrickglass Demesne)
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1912: pp.392-394.
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: National Library of Ireland Report on Report on the Lefroy Papers, mainly re estates in Co. Longford and in Dublin city, with papers of allied families of Langlois and West. No. 451
- Devaney, Owen. ''Killoe: history of a County Longford parish''. [Longford}: St. Mel's Diocesan Trust, 1981.: Lefroy at Carriglass. pp,117-118.