Bond (Carrownure)
Description
A branch of the Bond family of county Longford.
Estate(s)
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Bond (Carrownure) | The Bonds were descended from a Presbyterian minister who settled in county Longford in the mid 18th century. In the 1830s and 1850s Richard Wensley Bond held an estate in the parish of St Johns, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon. He held it from the Hodsons who had a lease in perpetuity from St George Caulfield dated 1764. Richard W. Bond was the second son of Reverend Wensley Bond, Dean of Ross, and he married Sophia, daughter of Reverend James Bond of Lecarrow, county Roscommon. By the mid 1850s the Bonds were in financial difficulties and their estate at Knockneconnor, Galeybeg, Lecarrow and Carrownure was advertised for sale with some land in county Westmeath. Carrownure was bought by Edward John Irwin in 1857 who sold it to Bernard Bagot of the Castlekelly family the following year. Carrownure remained in the possession of the Bagot family until 1903 when it was purchased by the Auchmutys. Knockneconnor was advertised for sale again in May 1876. In November 1877 over 1000 acres in the barony of Boyle and also in county Leitrim, owned by William & Mary Bond, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates court. |
| Bond | Burke suggests that the Bond family in Longford were descended from a Yorkshire family who initially settled in County Derry. Devaney states that around 1731 James Bond bought a property known as Newtownflood and renamed it Newtownbond. One of his sons, William, bought the property known as Farragh from the Wilson family c.1780 and his son, Willoughby, lived there subsequently. William Bond, of Newtownbond, county Longford, is recorded as owning 3100 acres in Longford and over 700 acres in Leitrim in the 1870s. The estate of William and Mary Letitia Bond, nee Lewis, including lands in the baronies of Drumahaire & Leitrim, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates court in November 1877. The Irish Times reported that the purchasers included some of the tenants as well as Lord Leitrim and Mr. O'Beirne, MP. Property in County Longford owned by Jane and Louisa Bond, as well as Samuel Blackall and his wife Catherine was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in June 1860. In 1864 over 500 acres in the barony of Granard, the property of William Bond was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court, At the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s John Bond was among the principal lessors in the parish of Shrule, barony of Rathcline. Thomas Bond held several townlands in the parish of Kilglass, barony of Ardagh. Alexander Bond was among the principal lessors in the parish of Mostrim, barony of Ardagh. |
| Greene (Galeybeg) | The Greene family, who originally farmed near Moate, county Westmeath, acquired land in the parish of St John's in the 1860s. In the 1870s Benjamin Greene owned 165 acres in county Roscommon. In the 1920s Benjamin Greene of Hill House, Lecarrow, kept diaries about farming activities. |