Landed Estates
University of Galway

Long (Longfield)


Estate(s)

Name Description
Long (Longfield) The Longs settled at Graystown, county Tipperary, in the late 17th century. Edward Long of Ardfinnan and Cahir Abbey, county Tipperary had a son Colonel Richard Hutchinson Long (1740-1814) of Longfield House. In 1790 he married Charity Moore of Barne, county Tipperary. Their younger son Edward Thomas Long of Fort Edward eventually inherited Longfield which he sold in the mid 1840s to Charles Bianconi. Edward emigrated to the Wisconsin, USA, where many of his descendants now live. One of them Count Caragata has done extensive research on the family history.
Price (Ardmayle) In the mid 19th century William Price held land in the parishes of Ballysheehan, Brickendown, Kilconnell and Magorban, barony of Middlethird, county Tipperary. Richard Price also held land in Magorban parish and in the parish of Holycross, barony of Eliogarty. Richard & Charity Price of Ardmayle, Cashel, Tipperary. On Oct 11, 1853, at Ardmayle Church, Richard Price (1795-1862), of Ardmayle House was the son of Thomas Price of Ardmayle who married Charity Elizabeth Long, eldest daughter of Edward Thomas Long of Fort Edward & Longfield, Cashel, county Tipperary, by his wife, Mary Crozier Clarke. Thomas E. Price, son of Richard and Charity Price of Ardmayle & Mayfield, Cashel, married Barbara Murphy, daughter of Edmond W. Murphy, of Woodford House, Holy Cross, county Tipperary in 1875. In the 1880s, Thomas and his family are reputed to have emigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1870s the representatives of Richard Price of Ardmayle, Cashel, owned 1,253 acres and Thomas Price of Coleraine, Cashel owned 658 acres in county Tipperary. The Wallis sale of the lands of Kilshenane, barony of Clanwilliam in May 1868, show that they were held on a fee farm grant dated 1712 from Joseph Damer of Dublin to Richard Price of Ardmayle. Kilshenane was purchased by John Wallis in the Encumbered Estates Court and conveyed to him on 6 March 1852. see http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.price/4869/mb.ashx?pnt=1