Landed Estates
University of Galway

Greville-Nugent

Family title

Lord Greville

Estate(s)

Name Description
Greville-Nugent William Fulke Greville was the second son of Fulke Greville of Wiltshire, a grandson of the 5th Baron Brooke. He married Meliora, daughter of the Honourable and Reverend Richard Southwell. The Grevilles county Limerick estate was leased to the Reverend Richard Southwell on 29 May 1731. In 1840 William F. Greville's grandson, Fulke Southwell Greville, created 1st Lord Greville in 1869, married Rosa, the only child of George Thomas John Nugent, 8th Earl of Westmeath. He assumed the surname Greville-Nugent in 1866. He was a principal lessor in the parishes of Kiltullagh, barony of Castlereagh, Kilglass and Kilmore, barony of Ballintober North and Aughrim, barony of Roscommon, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Almost 6,000 acres of the Castlereagh estate was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court in 1858. Griffith's Valuation also records Foulke S. Greville holding land in the county Cork parishes of Clonpriest, Ightermurragh and Titeskin, barony of Imokilly and William Greville holding land in the parish of Clonagh, barony of Connello Lower, county Limerick. This land in the parish of Clonagh, the estate of the Marquis of Westmeath and others, trustees of the will of William Fulke Greville deceased, was advertised for sale in November 1861 with lands in the barony of Imokilly, county Cork. The total acreage amounted to 3,192 acres. Most of these lands and a large estate of over 4,000 acres in county Cavan were offered for sale again in May 1864. This county Cavan estate was formerly part of the Manor of Hansborough or Corraneary, granted to the Hamilton family in the 17th century. It was bought by the Grevilles in 1776. Lord Greville’s county Cavan estate was in the parishes of Drumgoon, Knockbride and Drumlumman. He was living at Corraneary House in county Cavan at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. In 1876, Lord Greville's main estate was at Cloyn Castle, near Delvin, in county Westmeath. It was located mainly in the parish of Castletowndevlin (13 townlands) but also in Clonarney and St Feighin’s. Woods writes that Colonel Greville purchased the Mullingar estate from the Earl of Granard in 1859 for a sum believed to be £125,000 and also Clonhugh. In the 1870s Lord Greville owned nearly 10,000 acres in county Westmeath, as well as over 1,900 acres in county Cavan, over 1,200 acres in County Longford, nearly 4,000 in county Roscommon and 451 acres in county Cork. His son Algernon owned over 8,000 acres in Longford at the same time. The Longford estates were mainly in the parishes of Ballymacormick and Granard. It had been in the hands of Fulke Greville's uncle, Richard Greville, in the early and mid-nineteenth century and he was noted as among the principal lessors in those parishes at the time of Griffiths Valuation.
Nugent (Earl of Westmeath) In April 1678 Richard Nugent, Earl of Westmeath, was granted an estate of over 11,000 acres in the baronies of Longford and Ballynahinch, county Galway and Ballintober, county Roscommon, as well as 2,262 acres in county Westmeath. In 1680 he sold his lands in the barony of Ballynahinch to Henry Blake. The 2nd Earl’s grandson. Thomas [4th Earl], was outlawed in 1691 but his estates were restored under the Treaty of Limerick. His two daughters and co-heiresses were Lady Mary Nugent who married Francis, 21st Lord Athenry and Lady Catherine Nugent who married Andrew Nugent of Dysart. Thomas, 6th Earl and nephew of the 4th Earl, conformed to the Established Church and his grandson George 8th Earl was created Marquess of Westmeath in 1822. His only surviving child Rosa married Fulke, 1st Lord Greville of Clonyn, county Westmeath and on his death in 1871 the Marquess was succeeded in the earldom by his cousin Anthony Francis Nugent, Lord Riverston of Pallas, descended from the 2nd Earl’s second son Thomas.
Fitzpatrick (Co Cavan) Four generations of this family contained clergymen of the Church of Ireland, who ministered in counties Cavan and Leitrim. The FitzPatricks were related to the Beresford family and the Taylours (Marquess of Headfort). The Reverend Frederick Fitzpatrick was agent on the Greville estate. In the mid-19th century the Reverend F. Fitzpatrick (born 1821) held land in the parishes of Larah and Bailieborough, county Cavan. In 1878, the Reverend F. Fitzpatrick of Cloone Rectory owned 1,518 acres in county Kildare and 524 acres in county Cavan while other family members owned smaller acreages in county Cavan.