Henry (Toghermore)
Hugh Robert Henry, a younger son of Hugh Henry of Lodge Park, Straffan, county Kildare was the first member of the Henry family to reside at Toghermore in the parish of Killererin, barony of Clare, county Galway, in the early 19th century. In 1790 the Henrys had purchased Toghermore from the bankrupt Deane family. The estate of the Henrys of Toghermore was mainly in the parish of Killererin, while the Lodge Park branch of the family owned townlands in the parishes of Athenry and Lackagh. Hugh Robert Henry had four sons, the eldest, Hugh, settled at Firmount, county Kildare, Robert lived at Toghermore, the Reverend Joseph was a clergyman and missionary. He collected a library of books now housed at the Hardiman Library at NUI,Galway and James was a merchant in Peru. In the 1870s the Henrys of Firmount owned over 6,000 acres and the Henrys of Lodge Park over 1,000 acres in county Galway. Robert Henry of Toghermore also owned 412 acres in county Limerick. By March 1916 a final offer of £6,000 had been received by the Henrys of Lodge Park for their Galway acreage from the Congested Districts' Board. Cecil Henry, a younger son of Robert Henry of Toghermore, bought Crumlin House in the parish of Abbeyknockmoy from a branch of the Blakes of Ardfry in the early 1880s. Bateman mentions over 900 acres which the Lodge Park branch of the family held on perpetual lease in county Mayo in the 1880s. Over 600 acres belonging to Cecil R. Henry were vested in the Congested Districts' Board in April 1914. Toghermore was inherited by Robert Burke of the Ballydugan family, a grandson of Robert Henry, who set up a co-operative in the late 1920s. He left Tuam in the early 1950s and gave Toghermore to the State and it was used as a recovering unit for tuberculosis patients.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Toghermore | Toghermore | Killererin | Tuam | Killererin 212 | Clare | Galway |
OSI Ref: M462 495
OS Sheet: 44 Discovery map: 46 |
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| Crumlin | Crumlin | Abbeyknockmoy | Tuam | Ryehill 193 | Tiaquin | Galway |
OSI Ref: M483391
OS Sheet: 58 Discovery map: 46 |
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| Carrowntryla | Carrowntryla | Dunmore | Glennamaddy | Carrownagur 71 | Ballymoe | Galway |
OSI Ref: M512 602
OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 39 |
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Archival sources
- Henry of Toghermore, 2 volumes of correspondence, 1882-1894. GSO/12; Galway County Council Archives
- Carantrila photos. 022/020; Irish Architectural Archive
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 96, 419
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Tuam Union, 50
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 342 (Crumlin)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 46
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 48
- 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] : 215
- 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: 211 (Kerontryly)
- 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.
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 394 (Carntilly)
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.217
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 258-259
- O'REGAN, Carol & LACEY, Audrey (eds.). ''Abbeyknockmoy: A Time to Remember''. Abbeyknockmoy Community Council, 1996: 118-119
- HIGGINS, Jim & PARSONS, Aisling (eds.). ''St Mary's Cathedral, Church of Ireland, Tuam: Restoration & History''. Tuam, Friends of St Mary's Cathedral, 1995: 97-100
- ''Jnl. of the Galway Family History Society : Galway Roots'': The Henry Family. I (1993), 31
- CUNNINGHAM, John. Bobby Burke: Christian Socialist. In CLAFFEY, John A. (ed). ''Glimpses of Tuam since the Famine''. The Old Tuam Society, 1997 . : 239-254
- ''The Irish Genealogist'': MELVIN, Patrick. The composition of the Galway gentry. VII No. 1(1986), 92
- ''Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society'': Ó CEARBHAILL, Diarmuid. Bobby Burke and the Tuam Parish Council of Muintir na Tíre. LXII (2010), 202-212
- ''Jnl. of the Old Tuam Society'': HARTE, Frank. "They weren't all bad, you know": a landlord with a difference, a profile of Bobby Burke of Toghermore. IV (2007), 37-38.