Eyre (Eyrecourt & Eyreville)

Giles Eyre, Eyrecourt Castle and Thomas Knutford Eyre, Eyreville, are described as resident proprietors in county Galway in 1824. John Eyre was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Dononaghta at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In June 1854 the Eyrecourt Castle estate was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court including the house. In June 1857, the lands of Richard Eyre and others, in the parish of Clonfert, were offered for sale in the same court. In April 1869 the Moorfield estate of John Eyre was offered for sale in the Landed Estates court. In July 1870 and November 1872 the estate of Thomas Stratford Eyre in the parish of Kiltormer, barony of Longford, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates court. It appears that Allan Pollok already owned some of this property. Thomas Stratford Eyre Jun. is described as an insolvent debtor in the sale notice. The petitioners were the Scottish National Insurance company. The Eyrecourt Castle estate of John Eyre, Senior and Junior, was offered for sale in the Land Judges court in July 1883. Some of the family later settled in the Frome area of Somerset, England. See http://www.meddows-taylor.com/Eyre.htm for an account of the Eyres.

Associated Families

Eyre (Eyrecourt & Eyreville)

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Woodview	Buddelagh & Cloghbrack	Donanaghta	Portumna	Eyrecourt 173	Longford	Galway	OSI Ref: M903173 OS Sheet: 108 Discovery map: 53
Cappaluane Glebe	Cappaluane	Clonfert	Portumna	Meelick 176	Longford	Galway	OSI Ref: M925172 OS Sheet: 108 Discovery map: 53
Eyrecourt Castle	Eyrecourt Demesne	Donanaghta	Portumna	Eyrecourt 173	Longford	Galway	OSI Ref: M918168 OS Sheet: 108 Discovery map: 53
Moorfield House	Moorfield	Fahy	Portumna	Kilquain 175	Longford	Galway	OSI Ref: M872154 OS Sheet: 108 Discovery map: 53
Earlstown	Cappasallagh	Kilmalinogue	Portumna	Kilmalinoge 181	Longford	Galway	OSI Ref: M866072 OS Sheet: 118, 127 Discovery map: 53
Cloonkea	Cloonkea	Clonfert	Ballinasloe	Clonfert 16	Longford	Galway	OSI Ref: M952182 OS Sheet: 101, 109 Discovery map: 53
Coolbeg House	Coolbeg	Clontuskert	Ballinasloe	Lismanny 20	Longford	Galway	OSI Ref: M857234 OS Sheet: 100 Discovery map: 47
Killwood House/Gortnaraheen Glebe	Gortnaraheen Glebe	Kiltormer	Ballinasloe	Kiltormer 14	Longford	Galway	OSI Ref: M803199 OS Sheet: 99 Discovery map: 53
Mount Prospect (Kiltormer)	Kiltormer East	Kiltormer	Ballinasloe	Kiltormer 14	Longford	Galway	OSI Ref: M825207 OS Sheet: 99 Discovery map: 47
Eyreville	Newtowneyre	Kiltormer	Ballinasloe	Kiltormer 14	Longford	Galway	OSI Ref: M812208 OS Sheet: 99 Discovery map: 47
Gortnamona	Gortnamona	Clontuskert	Ballinasloe	Clontuskert 12	Clonmacnowen	Galway	OSI Ref: M838219 OS Sheet: 99 Discovery map: 47
Chesterfield	Cloonineen	Kiltormer	Ballinalsoe	Kiltormer 14	Longford	Galway	OSI Ref: M833195 OS Sheet: 107 Discovery map: 53
Brownville	Brownville	Rahoon	Galway	Galway Rural 45	Galway	Galway	OSI Ref: M261 292 OS Sheet: 81 Discovery map: 45

Archival sources

Encumbered estates rental of Eyrecourt estate, 1854. M. 5509. ; National Archives of Ireland
Papers relating to Eyre family. D.23121, 23122 & M.5906; National Archives of Ireland
Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Eyre estates in Galway city & county, 28 May 1852, Vol 15, 39/007, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Eyre Family Deeds, LE4. ; James Hardiman Library, University of Galway
Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Eyrecourt Castle estate, 27 June 1854, Vol 29, MRGS 39/013 & 12 June 1855, Vol 35, MRGS 39/016, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Richard Eyre & others, 23 June 1857,Vol 46, MRGS 39/022, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Landed Judges' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Eyre, 17 July 1883, Vol 145, MRGS 39/064, (microfilm copy in NUIG).; National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates Court Rentals (O'Brien), Stratford Eyre, 26 November 1872, Vol 108, MRGS 39/050, (microfilm copy in NUIG; National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates Court Rentals (O'Brien), Stratford Eyre, 29 November 1870, Vol 99, MRGS 39/047, (microfilm copy in NUIG).; National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates Court Rentals (O'Brien), John Eyre, 30 April 1869, Vol 94, MRGS 39/046, (microfilm copy in NUIG).; National Archives of Ireland
Encumbered Estates Court Rental, Eyre, 27 June 1854, baronies of Longford, Kilconnell & Clonmacnowen. D88,724; Galway County Library
Wilmot-Horton of Osmaston and Catton Catalogue Ref. D3155: Papers relating to Stratford-Eyre's Governship of Galway; Derbyshire Record Office
Eyrecourt. Photographs & press cuttings. 007/046.; Irish Architectural Archive
Eyreville. Photographs. 030/049.; Irish Architectural Archive
T.U. Sadlier Collection, deeds, testamentary and miscellaneous documents, re property of Eyre family in Cos Galway, Cork & Limerick City, 17th-19th centuries. Small Accessions Index No 72; National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

DUTTON, Hely. ''Statistical and agricultural survey of the county of Galway''. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1824. : 414.
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Portumna Union, 1, 2, 8 ( Moorfield), 23 (Cappaghsallagh).
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 295.
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] : 151.
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol. II, 216. (Newtowneyre).
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 180
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: 87.
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Ballinasloe Union, 107, 114 (Gortnaraheen), 117 (Newtowneyre), 123, 128, 131. .
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.I, 480.(Eyrecourt Castle & Eyreville)
ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Galway, http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/default.html: Donanaghta Parish
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 79, 223, 233 & 253
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) : xxvi, 44 (Eyrecourt Castle), xxvi, 71 (Eyreville)
WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 141 (Eyreville [Galway])
BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.157

Modern printed sources

BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1912: 211-213.
GLIN, Knight of, GRIFFIN, D. J. & ROBINSON, N.K (eds).'' Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland''. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive/Irish Georgian Society, 1989. : 72
GANTZ, Ida. ''Signpost to Eyrecourt: portrait of the Eyre family''. Bath: Kingsmead, 1975. : All
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 122 (Eyrecourt)
LYONS, Mary C. ''Illustrated Incumbered Estates, Ireland, 1850-1905.'' Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1993. : 114-116
''Irish Arts Review'': O'CONNELL, John. & LOEBER, Rolf. Eyrecourt. (1988), 40-48.
PINE, L.G. (ed). ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. 4th ed. London: Burke's Peerage, 1958.: 259-261.
HARTIGAN, Allen Stewart. ''History of the families of Eyre of Eyrecourt and Eyreville, county Galway.'' London: M.M.Taylor & Co. 1904. : All.
''Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'': HAYES-McCOY, Marguerite. The Eyre documents at University College Galway. XX (1942-43), 57-74, 151-179. XXI (1944-45), 71-95, XXIII(1948-49), 147-153.
MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 395-399.
''Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'': CRONIN, John. 'A Gentleman of a good family and fortune': John Eyre of Eyrecourt 1640-1685. LX (2008), 88-115
MELVIN, Patrick. ''Estates and landed society in Galway''. (Dublin: Éamonn de Búrca, 2012). : 38