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Stacpoole (Eden Vale)
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The Stacpooles were a county Limerick Catholic family. Clement Stacpoole was transplanted to county Clare in 1651. William Stacpoole, his second son, acquired a lease of Annagh, parish of Kilmurry, barony of Ibrickan, from the Earl of Thomond and his branch of the family settled there. He became a Protestant in the early 18th century. In 1777 his grandson William Stacpoole purchased Eden Vale, parish of Killone, barony of Islands, from Mr Justice Patterson for £800 and an annual rent of £100. It remained in Stacpoole possession until 1926. Although the Stacpooles lived at Eden Vale, most of their estate was in the barony of Ibrickan in West Clare. In the 1870s Richard Stacpoole of Eden Vale owned 7,381 acres and was agent for over 22,000 acres in counties Clare and Carlow. He died in 1891. His widow Alice occupied the house in 1906, when it was valued at £50. Their son, Richard John Stacpoole, was the last to reside at Eden Vale. The house was sold in 1926 to Clare County Council for use as sanatorium for £9,500 and the Stacpooles bought a property near Cheltenham. In 1986 Eden Vale was sold by the Mid Western Health Board and is now in private hands. http://www.archerfamily.org.uk/family/stacpoole.htm
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Barclay
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McAuliffe writes that the Barclays, a Quaker family, came from Scotland to Ireland. At the end of the 17th century a Reverend David Barclay, rector of Kilmurry McMahon, was renting a farm at Ballyartney, parish of Killofin, county Clare, from the See of Killaloe. The Prior Wandesforde Estate Papers contain an indenture between Richard and Agnes Southwell and David Barclay of Ballyartney, dated 1728. At the beginning of the 19th century Richard Barclay was resident at Ballyartney. He married Millicent Studdert and had a large family, some of whom emigrated to Argentina. His son, Thomas Barclay, married Charlotte Morony of Miltown House, Miltown Malbay and they had six children. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Charlotte held an estate in the parishes of Killofin and Kilfiddane, barony of Clonderalaw, while her brother-in-law, George Barclay, held two townlands, including 923 acres in the parish of Kilfiddane. In February 1865 part of the lands of Cahircalla was purchased by Richard John Stacpoole from the Barclays for £1350. In the 1870s Richard Barclay of South America owned 923 acres in county Clare while the representatives of Richard Barclay, address Ballyartney, owned 338 acres. see http://www.kittybrewster.com/ancestry/studdert.htm
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