Benn-Walsh

Lord Ormathwaite

Name	Description
Benn-Walsh (Lord Ormathwaite)	The Benn-Walsh family, Walsh baronet and Baron Ormathwaite, had their principal seats in Cumbria and also at Radnorshire in Wales. Lord Ormathwaite's estate in county Kerry amounted to almost 9000 acres in the 1870s while he held 2,206 acres in county Cork. Much of it was purchased from George Ogle, heir to the Anglesey estate in the late 1760s and from the 3rd Earl of Kerry. Sir John Benn-Walsh was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Duagh, Kilcaragh, Kilfeighny and Kilshenane, barony of Clanmaurice as well as a townland of 1900 acres in the parish of Galey, barony of Iraghticonnor, county Kerry at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In 1840, the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books indicated that the agent was Joseph Gubbat, of Mount Street, Dublin. At the time of Griffith's Valuation he held land in the parishes of Aglish, Athnowen and Magourney, barony of East Muskerry, county Cork.