Lynch (Barna)
According to Burke's ''Landed Gentry of Ireland'' the Barna estate came into the possession of the Lynches through marriage with an O'Halloran heiress in the 17th century and through purchase from the Whaley family. Further additions to their estate were made through marriages with a Blake of Renvyle heiress and a French of Cloghballymore. In the late 18th century a son of Mark Lynch of Barna lived at Cloghballymore and had a daughter Anne who married Maurice Blake of Ballinafad, county Mayo. The Lynches resided at Barna, just west of Galway city. James Hardiman referred to the 'highly improved and elegant seat of Marcus Blake Lynch which for situation and beauty of prospect stands unrivelled'. Before the Famine their estate appears to have been in the Courts. Some of it in the barony of Ballynahinch was sold to the Grahams of county Fermanagh in the early 1840s and some may have transferred into the ownership of the Comyn family through marriage. What was known as the West Barna Estate was sold to Andrew Henry Lynch in 1834. However at the time of Griffith's Valuation the Lynches still retained a large estate in the parishes of Rahoon, barony of Galway and Moyrus, barony of Ballynahinch. By June 1869 their estate of 9,565 acres in the parish of Moyrus was being advertised for sale, 5 of the 8 lots were sold that year. In the early 1870s they owned 4,100 acres in the county and 1,711 in the county of the town of Galway.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloghballymore | Cloghballymore | Killeenavarra | Gort | Killeenavarra 105 | Dunkellin | Galway |
OSI Ref: M398140
OS Sheet: 103 Discovery map: 52 |
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| Barna | Barna | Rahoon | Galway | Barna 44 | Galway | Galway |
OSI Ref: M247 237
OS Sheet: 93 Discovery map: 45 |
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| Nile Lodge | Kilcorkey | Rahoon | Galway | Galway South Urban 47 | Galway | Galway |
OSI Ref: M288 247
OS Sheet: 94 Discovery map: 45 |
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Archival sources
- GO MS 180. 358; National Library of Ireland
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Lynch, 18 June & 12 Nov 1869, Vol 95, MRGS 39/046, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Pedigree of Lynch of Barna and Cloghballymore, c 1710- c 1820. GO MS 180: 357-358; National Library of Ireland
- Barna photos. 022/013; Irish Architectural Archive
- Cloghballymore. Report for planning. 145/046 & 145/047. ; Irish Architectural Archive
- W.B. Scott, solicitor's collection, includes grant of administration, Marcus Blake Lynch of Barna, 1829. Small Accs. Index 76, T.3476; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- DUTTON, Hely. ''Statistical and agricultural survey of the county of Galway''. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1824. : 414
- HARDIMAN, James. ''The history of the town and county of the town of Galway''. Galway: The Connacht Tribune, revised edition 1985: 316
- TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 201 (Cloghballymore)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 297
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Galway Union: 49 (Kilcorkey), 86 (Barna),
- 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 : 60
- 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
- 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.
- SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxii, 82
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 140 (Barna)
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 354
- BEGGAN, G. ''The Political Lives and Times of the Comyns of Woodstock'', unpublished, 2003. (Copy in NUIG): 84-86
- MELVIN, Patrick. The Galway Tribes as Landowners and Gentry. In MORAN, Gerard (ed). ''Galway: History & Society''. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1996 : 319-374
- BEGGAN, Gerry. ''History and ambience of the lands around Corboley''. The author, 1998: 59-61