Bloomfield

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Bloomfield

The Bloomfield family were originally settled at Eyre Court, county Galway, in the early 18th century. Benjamin Bloomfield of Eyre Court had three sons, John, ancestor of the Redwood family, county Tipperary, Joseph and Benjamin, ancestor of the Barons Bloomfield. In 1742 John Bloomfield of Redwood married Jane Jocelyn and their grandson, John Colpoys Bloomfield, married Frances Arabella, daughter and co heir of Sir John Caldwell, Baronet, of Castle Caldwell, county Fermanagh. In January 1851 the estate of John Colpoys Bloomfield of Castle Caldwell, county Fermanagh, amounting to 1,977 acres in county Tipperary (parishes of Lorrha and Dorrha, Lower Ormond), was advertised for sale. It was purchased by William Hort and George Armstrong for almost £13,000. Sir Benjamin Bloomfield of Newport, county Tipperary, was a diplomat at the English Court in the early 19th century and in 1825 was created a peer as Baron Bloomfield. His son, the 2nd Lord Bloomfield, died childless in 1879 and his estate was inherited by his sister, the Honourable Harriett Mary Anne Kingscote of Gloucestershire. In the mid 19th century Lord Bloomfield's estate was in the barony of Owney and Arra, mainly in the parish of Killoscully but also in the parishes of Castletownarra, Kilcomenty, Kilnarath and also in the parish of Lorrha, barony of Lower Ormond. In the 1870s Lord Bloomfield of Ciamaltha, Newport, and London, owned 9,912 acres in county Tipperary. In 1876 over 5000 acres of the Bloomfield estate, principally in County Fermanagh but some property in the barony of Tirhugh, County Donegal, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court.