Lynch (Mountbellew)

Description

A branch of the Lynch family of Duras and Renmore and the Staunton Lynches of Clydagh, county Galway.

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Estate(s)

Name	Description
Lynch/Wilson Lynch (Renmore & Duras)	A Galway family who prospered in the 18th century as merchants and bankers. Patrick M. Lynch is recorded as the lessor of several townlands in the parish of Killinny, barony of Kiltartan, county Galway in 1855, formerly part of the de Basterot estate. He was also the owner of a house in the townland of Doorus Park. Patrick Lynch is also recorded as the proprietor of townlands in the parish of Duras. His agent was James Connor, of Newtown Lynch, Kinvarra. The Lynches also held Renmore on the outskirts of Galway city from the Governors of the Erasmus Smith Schools and lands in the parish of Annaghdown, barony of Clare. Patrick Lynch married Ellen Wilson and their son John inherited his uncle's estate at Belvoir, county Clare. The family name became Wilson-Lynch. The Wilson-Lynch estate amounted to over 5000 acres in the 1870s with a further estate of over 3000 acres in county Clare. In 1906 John Wilson Lynch is recorded as the owner of about 150 acres of untenanted demesne land in the Doorus Park area where the mansion was situated.
Lynch (Mountbellew)	Richard Marcus Lynch, a younger son of Mark Lynch and his second wife Victoire Cormick, inherited an estate in the parish of Ballynakill, barony of Killian, county Galway, from his father, who was leasing some of the estate from the Bellew family. Richard M. Lynch was a Poor Law Inspector and a Special Commissioner for Income Tax. In the 1870s Richard M. Lynch of London is recorded as owning 513 acres in county Galway. In 1904 when Richard M. Lynch's only child Anna Varenne Foster died, the estate passed to the Wilson Lynch family of Duras and Renmore. Their family and estate papers now in the James Hardiman Library, NUIG, contain some records relating to the estate of Richard M. Lynch.