Irwin (Streamstown)

Description

Streamstown

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Estate(s)

Name	Description
Irwin (Tanrego)	McTernan states that John Irwin, a Cromwellian soldier, was granted the lands at Tanrego in the seventeenth century. The Irwin family also had property in the parish of Achonry, barony of Leyny. Turlough O'Carolan was a frequent visitor to Tanrego and composed a number of tunes in honour of the family including "Colonel John Irwin". In 1855 John Lewis Irwin offered for sale lands in the baronies of Tireragh, Leyny and Carbury, including Tanragoe. The estate was acquired by the Olpherts and later the Verschoyle families. The house was occupied in the 1850s by Capt. Richard Olpherts. The house and lands at Barnabrack were also part of the Irwin estate. In the mid-19th century, Reverend Crinus Irwin, Archdeacon of Ossory, held three townlands in the parish of Kildrumsherdan, county Cavan. He was the second son of Lewis Francis Irwin of Tanrego and his wife Elizabeth Harrison. He married Amy Chamberlain and they had two sons John Lewis Irwin of Tanrego and Lewis Chamberlain. The Irwins did not own land in county Cavan in the 1870s.
Irwin (Streamstown)	Various members of the Irwin family are recorded as the owners of land in county Sligo in the 1870s. McTernan notes that this branch had been prominent in Sligo social and political life in the eighteenth century, serving as magistrates, Grand Jurors and High Sheriffs. However, as the ninetenth century progressed the family tended to live out of the county, principally in Dublin. In the 1870s, Burton Irwin was recorded as the owner of over 5000 acres in County Donegal. At the time of Griffiths Valuation he was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Aughnish, Clondavaddog, Killygarvan and Tullyfern in the barony of Kilmacrenan. In 1883 Bateman noted B. Irwin as the owner of over 5,700 acres in counties Sligo and Donegal. Burton Irwin died in 1898 and papers relating to both his Sligo and Donegal estates are held at the Public Record Office, Northern Ireland.