Smith (Ross)
In 1700 Thomas Smith, in partnership with James Naper, bought the Ross estate in county Galway from Colonel John Browne of Westport, county Mayo. Smith's interest became vested in George Boleyn Whitney to whom the Berminghams and later the Earls of Leitrim paid headrent. Details of the tenure of the Earls of Charlemont and Leitrim with regard to the Naper and Smith moieties is given in the sale rental of 28 June 1860.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Westport Estate Papers, Collection List 78; National Library of Ireland
- Clements Papers at Killadoon, county Kildare. C/1-2; Private Possession
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Charlemont and Leitrim, 28 June 1860, Vol 59, MRGS 39/030, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Modern printed sources
- ''The Irish Genealogist'': CHAMNEY, Anne R. Extracts from Father Clare’s Annotations to the Conformity Rolls, include reference to this family. X (2001), 427-454