Nugent

Family title

Earl of Westmeath

Estate(s)

Name	Description
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.
Nugent (Pallas)	In 1677 Thomas Nugent was granted an estate of 3,250 acres in the baronies of Leitrim and Longford, county Galway, including Pallace. In 1824 Lord Riverston and Arthur Nugent of Flower Hill are described as resident proprietors in county Galway. Property at Pallas and Spring Garden were occupied by Anthony F. Nugent at the time of Griffith's Valuation. This branch of the Nugent family was related to the Earls of Westmeath and that title passed to them in the 1870s. As Earl of Westmeath, Anthony F. Nugent owned over 14,000 acres in county Galway in the 1870s as well as property in county Roscommon in the parish of Ogulla, barony of Roscommon. Michael Nugent, with an address in Brussels, owned over 900 acres at the same time. Following the 1903 Land Act the Nugent estate in the baronies of Leitrim and Longford was sold to the tenants. In 1906 the Hon. Richard A. Nugent held over 200 acres of untenanted demesne land at Rockfield, Greethill, Athenry as well as the mansion house there valued at £27. The Earl of Westmeath owned about 1200 acres of untenanted land at Pallas in 1906. 1,133 acres of the county Roscommon estate of Lord Westmeath was vested in the Congested Districts' Board on 14 Oct 1908. In 1912 the Earl of Westmeath accepted an offer on over 6000 acres of his Galway estate from the Congested Districts Board.
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 (Killasoona)	This branch of the Nugent family descend from Christopher Nugent 14th Baron Devlin. The 14th Baron’s sixth son William Nugent settled at Killasonna, county Longford. His grandson Ignatius was knighted by the Emperor Charles VI. Sir Ignatius had a son John Nugent of Killasonna, who married Bridget O’Reilly and died in 1756. Their grandson was Christopher James, Count Nugent of Killasonna, who held an estate in the parish of Lurgan, county Cavan in the mid-19th century. In 1876, the Count owned 843 acres in county Cavan and over 500 acres in County Longford. He died in 1885.
Nugent (Bobsgrove/Farren Connell)	According to Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland (1904) this family is descended from the 12th Baron Delvin and was settled at Enagh (borders Bobsgrove) in county Cavan in the mid-17th century. Christopher Edmond John Nugent (1777-1853) of Bobsgrove and his wife Sophia Rathborne had six sons. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation the representatives of Christopher Nugent held six townlands in the parish of Kilbride while his third son the Reverend Edmond Nugent, vicar of Denn, held land in the parish of Denn and his grandson Edmond held land in the parish of Castlerahan. Christopher Nugent’s eventual male successor was his youngest son, Major General St George Mervyn Nugent of Farren Connell, who owned 1,832 acres in county Cavan in 1876. He died in 1884 and was succeeded by his son Major Oliver Stewart Wood Nugent.