Gildea
The Gildeas were established at Port Royal in county Mayo from early in the 18th century, where they held an estate of church lands in the parish of Ballyovey, barony of Carra. Thomas Fair of Roundfort was agent to James Gildea in the 1830s. From early in the 18th century the Gildeas also leased Cloonnagashel in the parish of Ballinrobe from the Bingham family, Earls of Lucan. In 1865 James Knox Gildea was advertising for sale over 10,000 acres in the barony of Ross, county Galway and in the baronies of Carra, Clanmorris and Kilmaine, county Mayo. Most of the county Galway part of the estate was sold to the Earl of Leitrim. Part of the Portroyal estate was sold to Thomas K. Sullivan of Bandon while the Caher estate was sold to Francis Browne. The following year the Port Royal estate of 5,480 acres was purchased by the National Land and Building Investment Company for £9,000. In the early 19th century the Gildeas moved their main residence from Port Royal to Clooncormick in the parish of Kilcommon, barony of Kilmaine. In the 1870s Anthony Knox Gildea of Clooncormick owned 1,635 acres in county Mayo.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Portroyal | Portroyal | Ballyovey | Ballinrobe | Portroyal 26 | Carra | Mayo |
OSI Ref: M156 741
OS Sheet: Discovery map: 38 |
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| Cloonnagashel | Cloonnagashel | Ballinrobe | Ballinrobe | Hollymount 37 | Kilmaine | Mayo |
OSI Ref: M232 670
OS Sheet: 110 Discovery map: 38 |
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| Clooncormick | Clooncormick | Robeen | Ballinrobe | Hollymount 37 | Kilmaine | Mayo |
OSI Ref: M254 678
OS Sheet: 110 Discovery map: 38 |
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Archival sources
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Gildea, 1 June 1865, Vol 77, MRGS 39/038, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Copy of confirmation of arms to Rev George Robert Gildea, Provost of Tuam, son of Thomas Gildea, descendant of James Gildea of Port Royal, 4 Dec 1884. GO MS 110, 59-60; National Library of Ireland
- Westport Estate Papers, rental of the estate of Arthur K. Gildea of Clooncormack for the year ending Nov 1919. MS 41,078/3; National Library of Ireland
- Xerox copies of entries from notebook of George Pridday, c 1840 relating to members of the Knox Gildea family of Hollymount House. Acc. 999/406; National Archives of Ireland
- Clements Papers at Killadoon, Co Kildare, include conveyance of Maumtrasna, Glenbeg East and West to the Earl of Leitrim, 8 June 1865; Private Possession
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Ballinrobe Union, 10 (Port Royal) & 140 (Clooncormick)
- TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 216 (Port Royal)
- M'PARLAN, James. ''Statistical survey of the county of Mayo''. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1802: 103
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 121 (Cloonnagashel)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol I, 116 & Vol II, 67 (Cloonnagashel & Clooncormick)
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Mayo: Vol I, 491 (Cloonnagashel) & Vol VI, 221 (Clooncormick)
- 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] : 181
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 309
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 357 (Clooncormick)
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 129 (Cloonagashill), 397 (Portroyal)
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 221
- MORAN, Gerard. ''A Radical Priest in Mayo, Fr Patrick Lavelle: the rise and fall of an Irish Nationalist, 1825-86''. Blackrock, Co Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1994: 118-123
- RUANE, Patrick. Thesis entitled ''Mayo Country Houses before 1840 - Vernacular country houses in the classical tradition'' (M.U.B.C.), 1996: Appendix VI
- GILDEA, Sir James. ''The Gildeas of Port Royal and Clooncormack and collateral branches''. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1916: All
- ''Irish Times'': Landed Estates Court sales, 2 June 1865, p.4. 17 November 1865, p.4