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Power (Gurteen)
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A family decended from the Poer family established in county Waterford in the 12th century and who held the titles Viscount Power and Earl of Tyrone in the 17th century. However these titles became extinct in 1742 and the representation of the family devolved on John Power of Gurteen, county Waterford and of Grange, county Galway. John Power was succeeded by his brother William in 1743. Referring to the later eighteenth century, Sadleir notes that William served as High Sheriff of Waterford in 1784.
John Power was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Dysert, Kilmoleran, Kilsheelan, Mothel and Rathgormuck, barony of Upperthird and Kilronan, barony of Glenahiry, county Waterford, and St Patricksrock and Railstown, barony of Middlethird, county Tipperary, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The unsettled estates of "the late John Power" in counties Tipperary and Galway were advertised for sale in November 1853, including Ballydine House. The county Tipperary estate amounted to 2,326 acres and the county Galway one to 1,546 acres (parishes of Killogilleen and Killinan, barony of Dunkellin).
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Power (Kilfane & Glencairn Abbey)
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Sir John Power of Kilfane, county Kilkenny, was the son of John Power of Tullamaine Castle, county Tipperary and Jane Newman of Newberry, county Cork and a grandson of John Power of Barrettstown, county Tipperary. He married Harriet Bushe of Kilfane and was made a baronet in 1836. Sir John and Harriet had 6 sons. At the time of Griffith's Valuation their eldest son Sir John Power 2nd Baronet held land in the parishes of Garrangibbon, barony of Iffa and Offa East, Colman and Redcity, barony of Middlethird, Terryglass, barony of Lower Ormond, county Tipperary. In the 1870s Sir Richard C. Power of Kilfane owned 2,850 acres in county Tipperary, 2,650 acres in county Kilkenny, 266 acres in county Waterford and 367 acres in county Wexford. At the same time the representatives of the Reverend Ambrose Power, Lismore, owned 575 acres and the Misses Georgina and Catherine Power of Tullamaine Villa, Upper Leeson St, Dublin owned 228 and 300 acres respectively in county Tipperary.
The estate at Glencairn Abbey came into the Power family through the marriage of Frances Maria Bushe and Ambrose Power, grandson of Sir John Power 1st Baronet in 1884. It amounted to over 600 acres in county Waterford at the time.
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