O'Hara (Raheen)
Raheen was originally a property held by the Lopdell family. It was to this area that some of the Kilkelly family moved when they were deprived of lands at Cloghballymore in the parish of Killeenavarra. Later Raheen came into the possession of the O'Haras. Robert O'Hara of Rahine is listed as one of the resident landed proprietors in county Galway by Hely Dutton in 1824. The OS Name Books record James O'Hara of Raheen as a proprietor in the parish of Ardrahan in the 1830s with Barry O'Hara of Galway as his agent and Henry Lahiff of Gort as a middleman. They further record James O'Hara leasing to John O'Hara as another middleman who in turn leased to John McMahon of Newmarket, county Clare. In 1853 much of the O'Hara estate in the baronies of Dunkellin and Leitrim, as well as some land in the barony of Kiltartan, was sold in the Incumbered Estates Court. The Freeman's Journal gives details of the purchasers. The sales realised the sum of £27,000. In 1856 Raheen was occupied by Charles O'Hara who was leasing from James O'Hara. The O'Hara estate in county Galway amounted to over 3000 acres in the 1870s. In 1915 an offer was accepted on almost 350 acres of the O'Hara estate from the Congested Districts Board. Francis O'Hara held land in the parish of Feakle, county Clare at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s William O'Hara son of Robert O'Hara of Raheen, county Galway and his wife Frances Taylor, was living at Caher House, Feakle, county Clare, where he owned 1,134 acres.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Raheen | Raheen Demesne | Ardrahan | Gort | Cahermore 102 | Kiltartan | Galway |
OSI Ref: M442064
OS Sheet: 122 Discovery map: 52 |
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| Normangrove | Normangrove | Killinny | Gort | Killinny 106 | Kiltartan | Galway |
OSI Ref: M372051
OS Sheet: 121/122 Discovery map: 52 |
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| Derryhoyle | Derryhoylemore | Lickerrig | Loughrea | Kilconickny 131 | Dunkellin | Galway |
OSI Ref: M545190
OS Sheet: 104 Discovery map: 52 |
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| Lydacan Lodge | Lydacan | Ardrahan | Gort | Cahermore 102 | Dunkellin | Galway |
OSI Ref: M440077
OS Sheet: 113 Discovery map: 52 |
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| Caher | Caher (Rice) | Feakle | Scarriff | Derrynagittagh 129 | Tulla Upper | Clare |
OSI Ref: R554 912
OS Sheet: 20 Discovery map: 52 |
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Archival sources
- Raheen. Photographs. 030/048; Irish Architectural Archive
- A large broadsheet containing the names of occupiers, the size and quality of lands in Streamsfort, Fortlands, Ballinasoora and Woodlands (Co. Galway?) c. 1850? (An exhibit in a legal action James O'Hara v. Lord Ashtown, Dec. 1901.) Ms. 4633 ; National Library of Ireland
- A survey of the wood-lands part of Calterbride or Streamsfort, in the barony of Kilconnell, Co. Galway, the estate of James O'Hara. By John Lally, Quarto sheet, coloured, 1835. Manuscript map: 21 F. 76 (9) ; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Galway, http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/default.html: Ardrahan Parish
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Gort Union, 5 & 38.
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 211.
- DUTTON, Hely. ''Statistical and agricultural survey of the county of Galway''. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1824. : 416
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Loughrea Union, 54 (Derryhoylemore)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol I, 56. (Raheen)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 113, 298
- 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] : 352.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 324.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 45.
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Scarriff Union, 27 (Caher (Rice))
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 458
- WEIR, Hugh W. L. ''Historical, Genealogical and Architectural notes on some Houses of Clare''. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1999. : 52
- MELVIN, Patrick. ''Estates and landed society in Galway''. (Dublin: Éamonn de Búrca, 2012). : p.10.
- ''Freeman's Journal'': Incumbered Estates Court sale reports, 7 May 1853, p.3.