Chapman
Benjamin Chapman, a captain in Cromwell’s army, was granted an estate at Killua, county Westmeath, containing 1,163 acres in 1667. His great grandson, another Benjamin, was created a baronet in 1782. In the mid-nineteenth century the first baronet’s nephew Sir Benjamin Chapman held an estate mainly located in the parish of Killua but also in the parishes of Kilcumrereagh, Killare, Kilbeggan, Faughalstown, Leny and Portnashangan, totaling 9,516 acres in the 1870s. Parts of his estate had been purchased from the Delamare and Naper families in previous years. Sir Benjamin’s brother William of Southhill, Delvin, held lands in the county Westmeath parishes of Castledevlin, Castletownkindalen, Kilkenny West, Newtown and Noughaval, amounting to 4,707 acres in the 1870s. Sir Montague Chapman was among the principal lessors in the parish of Street, barony of Moyguish, County Westmeath at the time of Griffiths Valuation. T E Lawrence ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, was the illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th and last Baronet. Sir Benjamin and William Chapman, two members of the Chapman family of Killua Castle, county Westmeath, owned a sporting estate in the parish of Crossmolina, barony of Tirawley, county Mayo in the 1870s, formerly part of the estate of the Earls of Arran. They still owned untenanted land in the locality in 1906. Some of their county Mayo estate was occupied by Charles Thomas Warde at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The Chapmans had accepted an offer from the Congested Districts' Board for their Co Mayo estate of 2,666 acres by March 1916.
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Book of maps of the estates of Sir Benjamin Chapman Bt in Co Westmeath, surveyed by C Kane, 1865. Ms 2726; National Library of Ireland
- Pedigree of Chapman Bts of St Lucy, Killua Castle and South Hill, Delvin, all in Co Westmeath, c 1710-1914. GO Ms 114, 162-163; National Library of Ireland
- Pedigree of the Chapman family of Co. Westmeath, 1733 - 1927. D. 579; 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] : 78-79
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 82, 308
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 353
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 53
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.84
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 118
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Castletowndelvin Union, 19 (Southhill); 34 (Killua); 46 (Streamstown)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 310 (Southhill); II, 155 (Killua)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 364, 365
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 345 (Killua)
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: 263
- DUNNE, Eugene. ‘The experiences of the aristocracy in county Westmeath during the period 1879 to 1923’. PhD thesis for Department of History, NUI, Maynooth, 2016.: All
- O'Brien, Donal. ''The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath''. The author, Athlone (2nd edition 2015): 128, 175, 176