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Phibbs (Spotfield)
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Major Richard Phibbs held land at Curry in Achonry & Cloonoghill parishes, baronies of Leyny and Corran, county Sligo as well as land in the barony of Boyle at the time of the first Ordnance Survey and Griffith's Valuation. The agent in Boyle was Ormsby. In the 1870s Colonel Richard Phibbs of Spotfield, Collooney, county Sligo and of Liverpool and London, owned over a thousand acres in county Mayo and 1598 acres in county Sligo. He was a son of John Phibbs, High Sheriff of county Sligo 1821. The estate appears to have passed to his daughter Henrietta Phibbs by 1912. Henrietta Phibbs accepted an offer on her estate of almost 1000 acres from the Congested Districts Board after 1909. The Congested Districts Board acquired over 200 acres of Maj. Richard Phibbs estate at the same time.
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