Maguire
Edward Maguire was the lessor of several townlands in the parish of Killasnet, barony of Rosclogher, county Leitrim, in 1856. The Maguire family, who were Catholic, owned an estate of over 4,000 acres at Gortoral near Swanlinbar. Edward Maguire was a JP for Fermanagh until his death in the 1870s. Nathaniel Maguire J.P. of Bonebrook, Drumlayan, parish of Templeport, county Cavan, held over 1,000 acres in the parish in the mi-19th century. He was related to the Maguire family of Gortoral, Swanlibar, county Fermanagh, and of county Leitrim. In 1876 Nathaniel Maguire of Aghacashel, Ballinamore, county Leitrim, owned 970 acres in county Cavan. On the first edition Ordnance Survey map Bonebrook is marked and named. It was valued at £4.10 shillings in Griffith’s Valuation when occupied by Nathaniel Maguire who held it from Eleanor O’Brien.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Maguire, 3 July 1886, Vol 149 (23), MRGS 39/066, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of 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] : 301
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 305