Lynch/Wilson Lynch (Renmore & Duras)
A Galway family who prospered in the 18th century as merchants and bankers. Patrick M. Lynch is recorded as the lessor of several townlands in the parish of Killinny, barony of Kiltartan, county Galway in 1855, formerly part of the de Basterot estate. He was also the owner of a house in the townland of Doorus Park. Patrick Lynch is also recorded as the proprietor of townlands in the parish of Duras. His agent was James Connor, of Newtown Lynch, Kinvarra. The Lynches also held Renmore on the outskirts of Galway city from the Governors of the Erasmus Smith Schools and lands in the parish of Annaghdown, barony of Clare. Patrick Lynch married Ellen Wilson and their son John inherited his uncle's estate at Belvoir, county Clare. The family name became Wilson-Lynch. The Wilson-Lynch estate amounted to over 5000 acres in the 1870s with a further estate of over 3000 acres in county Clare. In 1906 John Wilson Lynch is recorded as the owner of about 150 acres of untenanted demesne land in the Doorus Park area where the mansion was situated.
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Newtown Lynch | Doorus Park | Kinvarradoorus | Gort | Doorus 103 | Kiltartan | Galway |
OSI Ref: M325132
OS Sheet: 112 Discovery map: 52 |
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| Renmore House | Rinmore | St Nicholas | Galway | Galway East Urban 42 | Galway | Galway |
OSI Ref: M317 258
OS Sheet: 94 Discovery map: 45 |
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| Waterdale | Waterdale | Claregalway | Galway | Claregalway 66 | Clare | Galway |
OSI Ref: M370 356
OS Sheet: 70 Discovery map: 46 |
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| Belvoir | Belvoir | Clonlea | Limerick | Castlecrine 115 | Tulla Lower | Clare |
OSI Ref: R507 708
OS Sheet: 43 Discovery map: 58 |
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Archival sources
- Wilson Lynch Papers. LE6; James Hardiman Library, University of Galway
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Lynch, 28 Apr 1876 & 6 July 1878, Vol 123 & 134, MRGS 39/056 & 39/060, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Map and survey of part of Renmore surrendered to Governors of Erasmus Smith's College by J. W. Lynch in Nov 1891. 21.F.76(34); National Library of Ireland
- Lynch of Galway and Doorus, copy marriage settlement and conveyance with Burkes of Ower, 1785 & 1804. GSO1/9; Galway County Council Archives
- Estate records of Denis J. Kirwan and Sons, land agents, Tuam, mid 19th - mid 20th centuries, including account book of rents received, 1909-1921. Acc. No. 5124; National Library of Ireland
- Waterdale House photos. 022/095; Irish Architectural Archive
- Fr. Martin Heaney Collection, Mayo Abbey: Account Book containing historical notes on Co Mayo castles, landed families, Archbishops of Tuam, Mayors of Galway. P45/09/03: 85; Tuam Diocesan Archives, Tuam
- Genealogical notes on Lynch of Duras & Renmore by Charles French Blake Foster, c 1865. MS 13,560; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Gort Union, 73 (Doorus) & Galway Union, 26 (Renmore)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 648
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 334
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Galway, http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/default.html: Corrandulla
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 319.
- DUTTON, Hely. ''Statistical and agricultural survey of the county of Galway''. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1824. : 415
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 301
- 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] : 283
- SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxiii, 172
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.284.
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1912: 423
- MELVIN, Patrick. The Galway Tribes as Landowners and Gentry. In MORAN, Gerard (ed). ''Galway: History & Society''. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1996 : 319-374
- O'CONNELL, J.W. ''Kinvara History, a family affair.'' Kinvara, county Galway: Kinvara Community Council, 1988. : 21
- SHEERIN, Norbert. ''Renmore and its environs: An Historical Perspective''. Galway: Renmore Residents Association, 2000: 44-49
- LYONS, Mary C. ''Illustrated Incumbered Estates, Ireland, 1850-1905.'' Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1993. : 155-156
- ''Jnl. of the Galway Family History Society : Galway Roots'': CURTIN, Geraldine. The Wilson-Lynch estate papers. V (1998), 81-86.
- ''Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'': MAC LOCLAINN, Alf. Miscellanea: Documents on Social Life from the Wilson Lynch Papers. XLII (1989-1990), 131-136
- ''The Other Clare'': CLESHAM, Brigid. The Wilson Lynch Papers. XXV (2001), 19-21