Lahiff
The Lahiff family held property in various parishes in the barony of Kiltartan. They occupied a house at Cloon which was valued at £15 in Griffith's Valuation. This house was previously in the hands of the Burke Eyre family. The Lahiff family purchased large portions of Lord Gort's Lough Cutra estate in the 1850s where they had previously been freeholders. Jones Lahiff is recorded as the lessor of several townlands in the parish of Killeenadeema, barony of Loughrea, in 1855. The Lahiff family also occupied the house at Russaun and acted as middlemen for the estate of Michael Butler, a minor, whose estate was in chancery in the 1830s. At the same time, Thomas Lahiff is recorded as a middleman for Richard Gregory on lands in the parish of Ardrahan. Henry Lahiff was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Aughrim, barony of Kilconnell, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s Daniel Lahiff was the owner of over 10,000 acres in county Galway and 128 acres in county Clare. In 1911 over 4000 acres belonging to James Lahiff was vested in the Congested Districts Board.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Cloon | Cloon | Kilbeacanty | Gort | Kiltartan 101 | Kiltartan | Galway |
OSI Ref: M472036
OS Sheet: 123 Discovery map: 52 |
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| Russaun (Russane) | Russaun | Kilbeacanty | Gort | Kiltartan 101 | Kiltartan | Galway |
OSI Ref: M483010
OS Sheet: 123 Discovery map: 52 |
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Archival sources
- Maps of the Lahiff estate in counties Galway & Clare, c.1867. 21 F. 5; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 297
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 50.
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Gort Union, 29.
- 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] : 256
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Galway, http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/default.html: Ardrahan Parish
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 44.
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of names of proprietors and area and valuation of properties in counties in Ireland, held in fee or perpetuity or long leases at chief rents,'' 1876. (412) LXXX. 395: 148.
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.257
Modern printed sources
- CRAIG, Maurice. ''Classic Irish Houses of the Middle Size''. Dublin: Ashfield Press, 2006: 152
- SPELLISSY, Séan. ''The History of Galway''. Limerick: Celtic Bookshop, 1999. : 344-345.
- ''The Irish Genealogist'': MELVIN, Patrick. The composition of the Galway gentry. (1986), 93.
- ''Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'': LANE, Padraig G. Purchasers of land in counties Galway and Mayo in the Encumbered Estates court, 1849-1858. XLIII (1991), p. 102