Landed Estates
University of Galway

Collum

The Collum estate was centred on Belleview, near Enniskillen. John Collum, as representative of the late Archibold, of Enniskillen, is recorded as owning 283 acres in Leitrim in the 1870s. In addition he is recorded as owning, with others, over 1600 acres in county Sligo. He also owned land in Cavan and Donegal (over 1900 acres) as well as Fermanagh. Elizabeth Collum, together with Robert Orme, was a principal lessor in some parishes in the barony of Tireragh, County Sligo, at the time of Griffith's Valuation, notably in Skreen. Mrs. Elizabeth Collum, wife of John Collum, along with Robert Orme, offered for sale property in Athlone and Westmeath, in the Encumbered Estates Court in February 1857. This had formerly been part of the estate of Ffolliott Thornton Mostyn and of Bernard Kelly. The Donegal lands were located in the parish of Templecarn, barony of Tirhugh. In the 1870s the representatives of William Collum, MD, was recorded as the owner of over 2700 acres in County Longford. These were Catherine, Charlotte, Emily and Frances Collum and they also held over 1400 acres in county Fermanagh.

Associated Families

No houses were found for this estate

Archival sources

  • Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Collum & Orme, 27 February 1857, Vol 44, MRGS 39/021, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Papers relating to the estate of John Collum. 1850-1940. D1096/25.; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • Collum family papers, 1860-1933. D1390/23.; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland

Contemporary printed sources