Landed Estates
University of Galway

Nangle

Description

Rev Edward Nangle of the Achill Mission settlement at Doogort, Achill Island. At the time of Griffith's Valuation he was occupying the glebe at Skreen, barony of Tireragh.


Estate(s)

Name Description
Achill Mission The O'Donel estate on the island of Achill was bought by Trustees of the Achill Mission in association with Thomas Brassey, William Pike and Samuel Holme, who each paid £2,333.6s.8d. for small estates on the island in the early 1850s. The Mission's share was 23,452 acres for which they paid £10,500 . In 1876 the Mission is recorded as holding 19,155 acres, valued at £1,011 in county Mayo. By March 1916 the Achill Mission had accepted an offer from the Congested Districts' Board for the purchase of their estate, which the Board took over in 1921.