Walsh (Mohill)
John Walsh was leasing property from Rev. Augustus Crofton in Mohill parish in the 1850s. He is also recorded as the lessor of a house valued at £12 in Clooncahir townland which was vacant at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The Walsh family "of Drumsna" are recorded as agents to the Boyle estate of Oliver Begg, of Mount Dalton, county Meath at the time of the first Ordnance Survey. In 1837 Hugh Walsh of Drumsna served as High Sheriff of Leitrim. In 1854 and again in 1861 the estate of Gerard Francis Walsh, a minor, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates' Court. It included a house in Drumsna as well as lands in the baronies of Ballintober and Boyle, county Roscommon, the barony of Tullyhunco, county Cavan and other parts of county Leitrim. The petitioners included members of the O'Beirne family. Belmont mansion and demesne, part of the town parks of Drumsna, with a fee farm rent on some land in the parish of Kilmore, barony of Ballintober North, county Roscommon, the estate of Gerald Francis Walsh, were advertised for sale in June 1883. Gerald F. Walsh owned 257 acres in county Roscommon and 95 acres in county Leitrim in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Flanker House | Drumsna | Annaduff | Carrick-on-Shannon | Drumsna | Leitrim | Leitrim |
OSI Ref: M994973
OS Sheet: 31, 32 Discovery map: 33 |
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| Clooncahir | Clooncahir | Mohill | Mohill | Mohill | Mohill | Leitrim |
OSI Ref: N093947
OS Sheet: 32, 35 Discovery map: 33 |
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| Belmont | Drumsna | Annaduff | Mohill | Drumsna | Leitrim | Galway |
OSI Ref: M994977
OS Sheet: 31, 32 Discovery map: 33 |
Archival sources
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Walsh, 2 July 1861, Vol 62, MRGS 39/031, (microfilm copy in NUIG) ; National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Walsh, 20 June 1854, Vol 29, MRGS 39/013, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Walsh, 15 June 1883, Vol 145, MRGS 39/064, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Irish Tourist Authority. Topographical and General Survey, 1941-1945. Parish of Annaduff. File 124. ; Leitrim County Library
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mohill Union, 129.
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Roscommon: Vol. I, 8
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Carrick-on-Shannon Union, 33.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 306 & 319