Palmer (Leitrim)
The Palmer family were resident at Sriff or Shriff from at least the end of the 18th century. They held lands in the parishes of Drumlease and Drumreilly, barony of Dromahaire in the mid-19th century. Henry Manly Palmer of Sriff was a member of the Grand Jury for Leitrim in 1851. Isabella Palmer of Drumkeel is recorded as owning over 1300 acres in Leitrim in 1876. Thomas Robert Palmer, living at Friarstown in the 1870s, owned over 1600 acres in county Leitrim at that time. This family intermarried with the Cullen family of county Leitrim on a number of occasions.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Sriff Cottage | Sriff | Drumlease | Manorhamilton | Drumahaire 36 | Drumahaire | Leitrim |
OSI Ref: G797341
OS Sheet: 10 Discovery map: 25 |
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| Friarstown | Friarstown | Killanummery | Manorhamilton | Drumahaire 36 | Dromahaire | Leitrim |
OSI Ref: G790313
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 25 |
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| Drumkeel | Drumkeel | Killarga | Manorhamilton | Belhavel 34 | Dromahaire | Leitrim |
OSI Ref: 864286
OS Sheet: 15 Discovery map: |
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| Glasdrumman More | Glassdrumman More | Inishmagrath | Manorhamilton | Drumkeeran | Rosclogher | Leitrim |
OSI Ref: G888267
OS Sheet: 15, 17 Discovery map: 26 |
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Archival sources
- Diary of Ellen Palmer (nee Peel), 1860. File 378.; Leitrim County Library
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] : 361
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 305
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol I, 518.
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Manorhamilton Union, 48 (Sriff), 67 (Glasdrumman More), 110 (Drumkeel)
- SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxvi, 64 (Drumkeel)