Landed Estates
University of Galway

Stafford


Estate(s)

Name Description
Stafford The Stafford property was leased from Lord Lorton's estate and was located in the parish of Creeve, barony of Frenchpark, county Roscommon. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Captain Charles Stafford held 3 townlands in the parish of Kiteevan, barony of Ballintober South and in the 1870s Charles Stafford of Portobello owned 531 acres in county Roscommon. Over 240 acres of the Stafford estate was bought by the Congested Districts' Board in 1915. In the mid-nineteenth century Elizabeth Stafford was the immediate lessor of lands in the parishes of Kilcleagh and Ballyloughloe, county Westmeath.