McEvoy
Edward Francis McEvoy was recorded as owning over 300 acres in county Leitrim in the 1870s as well as lands in counties Longford and Meath. The McEvoy estate was centred on Tobertinan/Tubbertinan in the parish of Rathmoylan, county Meath. In 1850 Edward F. McEvoy married Eliza Browne, daughter and heiress of Andrew Browne of Mount Hazel, county Galway. In the 1870s, Edward McEvoy of Tobertinan, Trim, County Meath was recorded as the proprietor of over 2500 acres in County Longford, as well as over 2000 acres in County Meath and over 300 acres in County Leitrim. At the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s, his estate was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Abbeylara and Columbkille, Barony of Granard, County Longford. His brother, Joshua James McEvoy, married the daughter and heiress of the 7th Viscount Netterville and assumed the name of Netterville. Edward's only child, Pauline, married George de Stacpoole.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Mounthazel | Mounthazel | Ballymacward | Mountbellew | Mounthazel 156 | Tiaquin | Galway |
OSI Ref: M644398
OS Sheet: 59 Discovery map: 46 |
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Archival sources
- Photocopy of draft pedigree [by Nicholas Synnott] of the family of McEvoy of Tobertynan, Co. Meath and Frankford, Co. Longford, 17th - 19th c. Ms.9156.; National Library of Ireland
- Photocopy of draft pedigree [by David Synnott] of the family of McEvoy of Tobertynan, Co. Meath and Frankford, Co. Longford, 17th - 19th c. Ms.9157.; National Library of Ireland
- MacEvoy correspondence, mainly letters to Francis MacEvoy and to his brother James MacEvoy on family and financial matters, containing references to estates in Dring, Co. Longford and St. Johnswell, Co. Kilkenny, c. 1777-1833, with modern transcripts. N.6327, P.7219.; National Library 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] : 293
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.288
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: p.54 [Longford]
- 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] : p.293.
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Granard Union, p.14 (Ballinrooey)