de Montmorency
Family title
Baron Frankfort
Estate(s)
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Henchy (Moynoe) | The Henchy family were established in county Clare from the early 18th century and descend from Peter Henchy of Cappagh Castle. Weir writes that the Henchys intermarried with the O'Briens and that the Henchys lost their estates to John Lindsay, a "Protestant discoverer" of Lisburn, county Antrim in 1786. Peter Fitzgibbon Henchy moved to Moyarta. Griffith's Valuation records the representatives of Peter F. Hinchy holding some land in the parish of Kilballyowen, barony of Moyarta. Hugh Brady, who died in 1819, held a lease on Moynoe, Meenross and Carrowmore in the Scarriff locality of east county Clare. In 1820 his widow Elizabeth, formerly a Fitzgibbon of Ballyseeda, Limerick mortgaged these lands to Peter Fitzgibbon Henchy, barrister at law, of Dublin. Peter Henchy was a son of Donough Henchy of Feenagh, Sixmilebridge, county Clare and his wife, Dorothy Fitzgibbon of Newcastle, county Limerick. The Henchys had a son, Fitzgibbon Henchy, who was living at Moynoe in 1837 as well as five daughters. In 1832 Caroline Henchy married Edward Basil Brooke of Colebrook, county Fermanagh. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Moynoe and the other lands were held by the trustees of their marriage settlement, Sir Arthur B. Brooke, 2nd Baronet and Georgina Henchy, Caroline's sister, who had married Lodge Raymond de Montmorency, 2nd Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency in 1833. Lady Frankfort owned 1,653 acres in county Clare in the 1870s and Mrs Caroline Brooke owned 627 acres. Lady Frankfort's estate in the baronies of Tulla Upper and Moyarta was advertised for sale in June 1881. The rental shows that Moynoe was held under lease from the Bishop of Killaloe and refers to the Reade lease. see http://www.scariff.com/snapr03.html |
| de Montmorency (Viscount Frankfort) | The de Montmorency family, Viscount Frankfort, was a junior branch of the Viscount Mountmorres family. Lodge Evans Morres (1747-1822), a distinguished politican, was created Baron Frankfort of Galmoyle in July 1800 following the Union and Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency in 1816. He married as his second wife Catherine White of Castle Bellingham and had a son Lodge Raymond, 2nd Viscount. The 2nd Viscount married Georgina Frederica, daughter of Peter FitzGibbon Henchy, QC. In 1878 the 2nd Viscount, with an address in Essex, owned 4,610 acres in county Kilkenny, 1,045 acres in county Cavan and 636 acres in county Carlow. His county Cavan property was in the parish of Killashandra. |