O'Shaughnessy (Gort)
Lands in the parish of Beagh had been in the possession of the O'Shaughnessy family for a considerable time. In 1677 they were granted over 4,000 acres in the barony of Kiltartan, most of it in the parish of Beagh. They forfeited their estates in the 1690s due to their espousal of the Jacobite cause at that time. Richard Martin was later holding lands in trust for Elinor Shaughnessy. Much of their lands were granted to the Prendergast family with whom they engaged in law suits in an attempt to win back their estates. This action was ultimately unsuccessful. The OS Name Books record Capt. O'Shaughnessy acting as a middleman for the Gregory estate in the 1830s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lough Cutra (Lough Cooter) | Loughcooter Demesne | Beagh | Gort | Ardamullivan 97 | Kiltartan | Galway |
OSI Ref: R460973
OS Sheet: 129 Discovery map: 52 |
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Archival sources
- Lough Cutra. Photographs & Press Cuttings. 022/048.; Irish Architectural Archive
- BURNS, Martina. ''The evolution of the cultural landscape of the Lough Cutra estate''. Unpublished MA Thesis. 1997.; James Hardiman Library, University of Galway
Contemporary printed sources
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Galway, http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/default.html: Ardrahan Parish
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 249, 259 & 276
Modern printed sources
- ''Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'': BLAKE, Martin J. & DALTON, J.P. Gort and Lough Cutra & a tabular pedigree of O'Shaughnessy of Gort [1543-1783]. IV (1909-10), 52-63.
- RAIT, Robert S. ''The story of an Irish property''. Oxford: privately printed at the University Press, 1908. [Lough Cutra & Gort]: All
- ''North Munster Antiquarian Journal'': BUTLER, T. Blake. The O'Shaughnessy woods with notes on the family of O'Shaughnessy, Butler and others. VI, 3 (1951), 83-90.
- HYNES, James P. ''The O'Shaughnessys''. Clwyd, Wales: [the author], 1987. : All.