Levinge
Family title
Baronet
Description
The various brances of the Levinge family are all related. The Levinges baronets lived at High Park, county Westmeath. A junior branch of the family of lived at Levington Park, county Westmeath. Their English residence was Parwick Hall, Derby.
Estate(s)
| Name | Description |
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| Levinge (Co Roscommon) | The Levinges of New Park, county Roscommon and Levington Park, county Westmeath were a junior branch of the Levinge family Baronets, descending from younger sons of the 4th Baronet. In the mid-nineteenth century Mark Anthony Levinge of New Park was occupying over 900 acres held from Daniel Molloy in the parish of Enniscoffy, county Westmeath. In the 1870s Marcus Anthony Levinge of Carnagh, Kiltoom, Athlone, county Roscommon and Enniscoffey House, Miltownpass, county Westmeath, owned 794 acres in county Roscommon and smaller acreages in counties Westmeath and Meath, while his cousin Richard William Chaworth Levinge of Levington Park owned 87 acres. Richard C. Levinge was also recorded as the owner of over 300 acres in County Longford. Marcus A Levinge may have bought some of his county Roscommon lands from the sale of the Smyth estate in 1860. His county Roscommon estate was in the parishes of Kiltoom and St. Johns, barony of Athlone. By the early 20th century he was residing at New Park. |
| Smyth (Barbaville and New Park) | William Smythe (1693-1773) of Barbaville was a younger son of the Right Rev William Smythe, Bishop of Kilmore of the Gaybrook family. In 1808 Ralph Smyth of Barbaville, Collinstown, county Westmeath, married Eliza daughter and heiress of Matthew Lyster of New Park, county Roscommon. At the time of Griffith's Valuation their eldest son William Barlow Smyth of Barbaville, held 3 townlands in the parish of Ballindoon, barony of Ballynahinch, county Galway, previously part of the Bunowen estate of the O'Neills. Pádraig Lane states that Smyth bought 2,796 acres from the O'Neills. A copy conveyance in the Joyce, Mackie and Lougheed collection documents the William Barlow Smyth's purchase of Bunowenbeg from the O'Neills in 1852. The collection includes a rentroll of the Smyth's estate at Callow, Dolan, Bunowenbeg and part of Ballyconnelly, dated 19 November 1877. William Barlow Smyth also held an estate in the parishes of Faughalstown and St Feighin’s, county Westmeath in the mid-nineteenth century, amounting to 2,108 acres in the 1870s. His county Galway estate was comprised of 2,449 acres and he owned 478 acres in county Meath. His cousin Captain Ralph Smythe of Newtown House, Drogheda, county Louth, owned 901 acres in county Westmeath (parish of Castletownkindalen), 549 acres in county Louth and 54 acres in county Meath. In 1886, William B Smythe was succeeded by his brother Henry Matthew Smythe. Henry Smyth of New Park, county Roscommon, married a Coote of Ballyfin and at the time of Griffith's Valuation held lands in the parishes of Kiltoom and Taghmaconnell, barony of Athlone, county Roscommon. In November 1860, over 1,800 acres in county Roscommon belonging to Henry Mathew Smyth were advertised for sale. The purchasers included Messers Gannon, Gaynor, Keogh and Meredith. On 9 June 1859 William Tuthill conveyed Drominagh to Frederick Smythe and in July 1870s Frederick Smythe put the estate up for sale in the Landed Estates' Court. |
| Levinge (Co Tipperary) | At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) Godfrey Levinge is recorded as the holder of land in the parish of Graystown, barony of Slievardagh, county Tipperary. He also held a townland in the parish of Mullingar, county Westmeath . He was a grandson of the 4th Baronet. Godfrey Levinge was the son of Richard Levinge of Lurgo, county Tipperary and his wife Anne daughter of Godfrey Taylor of Noan. He married Lydia daughter of Henry Langley of Archerstown, county Tipperary. In the 1870s his cousin William Henry Levinge owned 2,333 acres in county Tipperary. William H. Levinge became the 9th Baronet in 1885. |
| Levinge (County Cork) | The rental of over 100 acres at Tullyland, barony of East Carbery, the property of Richard Hugh Levinge, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in August 1850. It was originally held on a lease dated 1720 by William Norwood from the Roffin estate. The representatives of Hugh Levinge were among the principal lessors in the parish of Ballymodan at the time of Griffith's Valuation. It is likely that this family were connected with that of Levinge of Levington Park, county Westmeath. |
| Levinge (Knockdrin Castle, Co Westmeath) | In the mid-sixteenth century Thomas Levinge purchased the manor of Parwick in Derbyshire. At the end of the seventeenth century his great grandson Sir Richard Levinge Knt was solicitor general of Ireland and speaker of the House of Commons. In 1702 and 1703, he made a number of purchases of land in county Westmeath from the Trustees of forfeited estates He was created a baronet in 1704. He was succeeded by his eldest son Sir Richard, 2nd Baronet of Parwick and High Park, county Westmeath, who in turn was succeeded by his brother, Sir Charles, 3rd Baronet. The 3rd Baronet married Anne, daughter and co-heir of Major Samuel Greene of Killaghy Castle, county Tipperary. Their only child was Sir Richard, 4th Baronet (1724-1786), who had five sons from whom the various branches of the family descend. By the mid-nineteenth century Sir Richard, 7th Baronet’s county Westmeath estate was located in the parishes of Kilcleagh, Taghmon, Tyfarnham, Rathconnell and Mullingar. This estate amounted to 5,017 acres in the 1870s. O’Brien gives a detailed account of this family. |