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Wallnutt
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in 1854 John Sampson leased to Charles Wallnutt over 4,000 acres of Turkenagh and Poulagouna mountains, parish of Moynoe, barony of Tulla Upper, county Clare. By the early 1860s Charles Wallnutt was bankrupt and his estate advertised for sale in the Landed Estates' Court. It included Springfield House, Ballyminogue, barony of Tulla Upper. Other properties at Castlebank, parish of St Patricks and Henrystown, North Liberties, Limerick, the estate of Thomas Wallnutt, were advertised for sale in February 1863. There are references to the Walnutt family of Thomond Gate in the sale of the distillery premises in 1868.
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Sampson (Scarriff & Belmont)
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At the time of Griffith's Valuation John Sampson held six townlands in the parish of Moynoe, barony of Tulla Upper, and also land in the parish of Killokennedy, barony of Tulla Lower, county Clare. George Sampson also owned land in four county Clare baronies. Lilla Sampson in her book on the Sampson family gives genealogical trees for the descendants of John Sampson and his wife Marcella O'Callaghan. They had three sons, the eldest of whom was Denis. He married Charlotte Petré and they had a number of sons including John (father of Donat Sampson of Bayswater, London), Dr Francis C. Sampson and George Sampson of Belmont, Castle Connell, county Limerick, who married Anna Lyons of Croome House, county Limerick. They were the parents of Colonel George Dennis Sampson. The Sampsons appear to have acquired extensive estates in county Clare by the 1870s as Donat Sampson of London owned 8,501 acres in the county and George Sampson of Belmount, county Limerick, owned 3,596 acres. They both held untenanted land in the Scariff district in 1906.
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