Ellis
Rev. Arthur Ellis is recorded as leasing land in the parish of Fenagh, county Leitrim, in 1856. The Ellis family had a house at Tankerville, Balbriggan, county Dublin and also held land in counties Cavan and Louth. Rev. Ellis had a shooting lodge at Slievenakilla in the parish of Drumreilly which the family used throughout the 19th century. It was later the property of John Benison, son-in-law of Rev. Ellis. The building is no longer extant. In the 1870s, Arthur Ellis, a solicitor, of Dublin owned over 3,000 acres in county Leitrim, 491 acres in county Cavan and 72 acres in county Dublin. The Ellis lands in county Cavan were in the parish of Templeport, barony of Tullyhaw.
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lodge | Slievenakilla | Drumreilly | Carrick-on-Shannon | Drumreilly East 21 | Dromahaire | Leitrim |
OSI Ref: G038224
OS Sheet: 19 Discovery map: |
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| Ward House | Wardhouse | Rossinver | Ballyshannon | Tullaghan 7 | Rosclogher | Leitrim |
OSI Ref: G777566
OS Sheet: 1 Discovery map: 16 |
Archival sources
- Notebooks of the travels of Arthur Ellis, solicitor, in counties Wicklow, Cavan & Roscommon, c 1830-1840. Ms 11,131-11,132; Trinity College Dublin
- Documents associated with the purchase of Ballymagauran (Ballymagawran) and Derryragh, parish of Templeport, Co Cavan, by Randal Slack from Frederick Lawder, esquire, amounting to £504.3.3. and division of Ballymagauran between Slack and Arthur Ellis, 1748-1763, 1794, 1932. P017/0011-/0014, P017/0025, P017/0185; Cavan County Archives Service, Small Private Collections
- Marriage settlement of Gore Ellis of Ballyhady, Co Cavan and Mary Coddington of Drogheda, 19 Mar 1768. D 18,712; National Library of Ireland
- Genealogical notes on the Dickson, Eccles, Ellis, Lowry, Mc William and Morell families of Counties Fermanagh, Cavan and Tyrone, c. 1700-1914. T1299; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
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] : 145
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 217, 304
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Ballyshannon, 46.
Modern printed sources
- FORDE, P. and CLANCY,E. (eds). ''Ballinaglera & Inishmagrath: history and traditions of two Leitrim parishes''. Carrick-on-Shannon: Maura Clancy, 2003. : 62-64
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Ellis Papers from 1725, relating to the Ellis family and to lands in the Cos Dublin, Fermanagh, Monaghan, Westmeath, Wicklow and Cavan, No 169.