Tighe (The Heath)
Robert Tighe was a prosperous merchant of Ballinrobe, barony of Kilmainemore, county Mayo, in the mid 19th century who bought lands for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Robert Tighe held three townlands in the parish of Kilmainemore, barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo, previously part of the estate of Arthur Browne of Glencorrib, parish of Shrule, and one townland in parish of Crossboyne, barony of Clanmorris, bought from the Blakes of Merlin Park. He held a townland in the parish of Templetogher, barony of Ballymoe, county Galway, in the mid 1850s. In 1863 Tighe bought The Heath from the Blakes. His first wife was Catherine, daughter of Thomas Kelly, and their eldest son, Thomas, was Member of Parliament for county Mayo in 1874. In 1875 he married Marie Antionette Dolphin of Danesfort, county Galway. By 1876 members of the Tighe family owned more than 2,000 acres in county Mayo and 1,025 acres in county Galway. Part of the Tighe's county Mayo estate was sold to the Congested Districts' Board in May 1906. 593 acres belonging to Thomas Tighe in county Galway were vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 26 April 1907. Robert Dolphin Tighe is recorded as the owner of over 340 acres of untenanted demesne land and a mansion house valued at £15 at Lisduff, Loughrea, in 1906.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| The Heath | Heath | Crossboyne | Claremorris | Garrymore 79 | Clanmorris | Mayo |
OSI Ref: M344 671
OS Sheet: 111 Discovery map: 39 |
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| Danesfort (Loughrea) | Lisduff | Loughrea | Loughrea | Bullaun 120 | Loughrea | Galway |
OSI Ref: M646194
OS Sheet: 97 Discovery map: 52 |
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Archival sources
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Blake, 10 Nov 1863, Vol 70, MRGS 39/035, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Post nuptial settlement Marie Antoinette Dolphin Tighe and Thomas Tighe, The Heath, 1911. Acc. 999/548 ; National Archives of Ireland
- Ordnance Survey maps showing lands in non congested districts: Briersfield, estate of Thomas Tighe, 157 acres in barony of Tiaquin, Co Galway, [1906-7]. 15.A.23(6); National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- COULTER, Henry. ''The West of Ireland: its existing condition and prospects''. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1862: 165-166 & 171-172
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. '' 18th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 4927] HC 1909, xvi. Appendix XXXII: 137 & 141
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 322 (Lisduff) & 365 (The Heath)
Modern printed sources
- MULLOY, Bridie. ''Itchy Feet & Thirsty Work: A Guide to the History & Folklore of Ballinrobe''. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association, 1990: 87
- ''Crossboyne Parish Magazine'': The Tighe Family of Ballinrobe and The Heath, Scardaune. (2005), 29-30
- ''Jnl. of the South Mayo Family Research Society'': The Tighe family of Ballinrobe and the Heath, Crossboyne. V (1992), 39-40
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 592-593
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: I, 522-523 (Dolphin)