Tighe (Cork)

Name	Description
Tighe (Cork)	The estate of St Lawrence Robert Morgan Tighe amounted to over 500 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. His grandfather was the Honourable and Reverend Thomas St Lawrence, Bishop of Cork and Ross. This family were also related to the Stearnes and to the Morgans of Cottlestown, county Sligo. The main estate of the Tighes was at Mitchelstown, county Westmeath, where they held over 1,800 acres in the 1870s.
Tighe (Mitchelstown)	In 1666, Alderman Richard Tighe of the city of Dublin was granted over 2,000 acres in Delvin, county Westmeath. This family descend from Richard Tighe of Kilpatrick, county Westmeath and his wife Mabella daughter of Robert Stearne of Tullynally, county Westmeath. Their son Robert Tighe (1686-1766) purchased Mitchelstown, Castletowndelvin and other lands from ‘his kinsman’ Richard Tighe [of Woodstock, county Kilkenny]. Robert was succeeded by his grandson Robert Stearne Tighe. In 1785 he married Catherine only daughter and heir of Colonel Hugh Morgan of Cottlestown, county Sligo and died in 1853. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) his representatives held an estate in the parish of Clonarney, county Westmeath, amounting to 1,809 acres in the 1870s.