Geoghegan/O'Neill (Bunowen)
Art Geoghegan of Castletown, county Westmeath, was transplanted to the confiscated O'Flaherty lands at Bunowen, parish of Ballindoon, barony of Ballynahinch, county Galway, by the Cromwellian Commissioners. During the 18th century the Geoghegans became Protestants and at the beginning of the 19th century changed their surname to O'Neill. The Geoghegans were originally one of the septs of the south Uí Neill. John Augustus O'Neill, Member of Parliament, succeeded to the estate in 1830 but after the Famine he was in severe financial difficulty and sold most of his estate in 1852 to Valentine O'Connor Blake of Towerhill. At the time of Griffith's Valuation a Thomas Geoghegan held a townland in both the parishes of Moyrus and Ballindoon, barony of Ballynahinch.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Bunowen Castle | Bunowenmore | Ballindoon | Clifden | Bunowen 21 | Ballynahinch | Galway |
OSI Ref: L597 426
OS Sheet: 49 Discovery map: 44 |
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Archival sources
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), O’Neill, 4 Feb 1853, Vol 20, MRGS 39/009, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), O’Neill, 14 May 1852, Vol 15, MRGS 39/007, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Pedigree of Geoghegan, also O'Neill, of Bunowen Castle. GO MS 164: 221; National Library of Ireland
- Copy of grant of arms to John Geoghegan of Bunowen Caastle, on changing his name to O'Neill only, 16 Jan 1808. GO MS 105: 47; National Library of Ireland
- Miscellaneous [Blake] deeds, including mortgage of John Augustus O'Neill to Alexander Symmers of Dublin, 19 Oct 1837. D 16,899-16,932; National Library of Ireland
- Bunowen photos. 022/018; Irish Architectural Archive
- Hoey & Dennings, solicitor's collection, includes recovery of lands in Co Galway by Richard Geoghegan of Bunowen, 1772. Small Accs. Index 99, Parcel 82; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 125
- DUTTON, Hely. ''Statistical and agricultural survey of the county of Galway''. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1824. : 416
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 250
Modern printed sources
- VILLIERS-TUTHILL, Kathleen. ''Beyond the Twelve Bens: A History of Clifden and District 1860-1923''. [Dublin]: the author, 2nd ed. 1990: 124-125
- ROBINSON, Tim (ed). ''Connemara after the Famine: Journal of a Survey of the Martin Estate by Thomas Colville Scott, 1853''. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1995: 19
- GLIN, Knight of, GRIFFIN, D. J. & ROBINSON, N.K (eds).'' Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland''. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive/Irish Georgian Society, 1989. : 69.
- ''Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'': BLAKE, Martin J. An account of the castle and manor of Bunowen. II (1902), 39-56
- BLAKE, Tarquin. ''Abandoned mansions of Ireland''. Cork: Collins Press, 2010.: 96-103 (Bunowen Castle)
- ''Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'': LANE, Pádraig. Galway and Mayo fisheries in the mid nineteenth century: transferable assets. LXII (2010), 144-156
- ROBINSON, Tim (ed). ''Connemara after the Famine: Journal of a Survey of the Martin Estate by Thomas Colville Scott, 1853''. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1995: p.96, footnote 17.