Scott

Earl of Clonmel

Name	Description
Scott	John Scott, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, was created Earl of Clonmel in 1793. His second wife was Margaret Lawless daughter of Patrick Lawless of Dublin and his wife Mary Lawless of Abington, county Limerick, and sister of the 1st Lord Cloncurry. Their grandson, John Henry Scott, 3rd Earl, held land in the parish of Doon, barony of Coonagh, county Limerick in the mid 19th century. His county Tipperary estate was located in the parishes of Newcastle, barony of Iffa and Offa West, Carrick, Kilmurry, Kilsheelan, barony of Iffa and Offa East, Ballingarry, Cloneen, Crohane, Fennor, Kilcooly and Lismalin, barony of Slievardagh, Knockgraffon, barony of Middlethird, Glenkeen, barony of Kilnamanagh Upper, Inch, barony of Eliogarty. He also owned an estate in the county Monaghan parishes of Clontibret, Clones, Drumsnat and Kilmore. Parts of the estate of the Earl of Clonmell in county Monaghan were held in perpetuity from Lord Blayney. In the 1870s, his county Limerick estate amounted to 1,904 acres, his county Tipperary estate to 11,098 acres and his county Monaghan estate to 1,953 acres.