Landed Estates
University of Galway

Maxwell (Ballymahon)

Thomas Maxwell, whose address is recorded as Ballymahon, was the owner of over 500 acres in County Longford in the 1870s. Kerby Miller suggests that the Maxwells were successful Catholic businessmen who acquired land in the latter part of the nineteenth century and also became politically active.

Associated Families

No associated families were found for this estate

No houses were found for this estate

Contemporary printed sources

Modern printed sources

  • Huntington Library Quarterly: Miller, K.A. No middle ground: the erosion of Protestant middle class in southern Ireland during the pre-Famine era. Vol.49, No.4, Autumn 1986, pp.301-303.