Burke (Danesfield)
The Burkes of Danesfield, parish and barony of Moycullen, county Galway, owned an estate of about 2,500 acres in that parish, throughout the 19th century. They were originally merchants in the town of Galway and purchased their estate from the Lynches of Drimcong in the late 18th century. They also owned just over 200 acres in county Limerick in the 1870s. Daisy, daughter of George Burke, married Arthur James Plunkett, Earl of Fingall in 1883. Her memoir, ''Seventy Years Young'', describes life at Danesfield in the mid nineteenth century.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Danesfield | Gortyloughlin | Moycullen | Galway | Tullokyne 51 | Moycullen | Galway |
OSI Ref: M211 329
OS Sheet: 68 Discovery map: 45 |
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Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 294
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Galway Union, 132
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 148
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 402
- 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] : 61
- 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.
Modern printed sources
- WALFORD. ''County Families of the United Kingdom''. London: Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., 1910: 159
- ''The Irish Genealogist'': MELVIN, Patrick. The Composition of the Galway Gentry. VII (1986), 81-96
- FINGALL, Daisy. ''Seventy Years Young: memories of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall''. Dublin: Lilliput Press Ltd, 1991: All
- GLIN, Knight of, GRIFFIN, D. J. & ROBINSON, N.K (eds).'' Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland''. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive/Irish Georgian Society, 1989. : 72