Landed Estates
University of Galway

Greenall

Family title

Lord Daresbury


Estate(s)

Name Description
Greenall Sir Gilbert Greenal was created Baron Daresbury in 1927. He was a member of the wealthy Greenall family of Cheshire who had been involved in brewing from the mid 18th century and had other business interests. In 1938 he was succeeded by his second son Edward as 2nd Baron (1902-1990). The 2nd Baron Daresbury, a keen huntsman, was Master of the Limerick Foxhounds 1947-1990 and purchased Clonshire and Mount Coote in county Limerick.
Coote (Mount Coote) Sir Philip Coote Knight of Mount Coote, county Limerick was a nephew of Charles, 1st Earl of Mountrath. Members of this family intermarried with the Brabazon, Newcomen, Gore and Oliver families. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Charles Coote held an estate in the parishes of Ardpatrick and Ballingaddy, barony of Coshlea. In 1869 he was succeeded by his brother, John Aldworth Coote, who owned 2,688 acres in county Limerick in the 1870s. William Uniacke Townsend was agent to this estate in the 1860s. The estate was sold in 1911.