Landed Estates
University of Galway

Windle


Estate(s)

Name Description
Windle The name Windle was mainly associated with county Kerry at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s James Fitzgerald Windle, a solicitor of Tarbert, county Kerry, owned 550 acres in county Limerick. These lands [Ballygoghlan] were in the parish of Kilfergus, barony of Shanid, county Limerick. ''The Cork Examiner'' (22 Oct 1863) records the birth of one of his daughters and he had a son also named James Fitzgerald Windle who was killed in a car accident in 1914. James Fitzgerald Windle the elder died in 1889. see http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/print.cgi?windle::368.html