Landed Estates
University of Galway

O'Byrne


Estate(s)

Name Description
O'Byrne John Byrne of Mullinahack, county Dublin, a partner in the firm of that name, married Elizabeth Byrne of Allardstown, county Louth and had a son Edward Henry O'Byrne of Allardstown and Corville, county Tipperary. In 1828 he married a French woman Gertrude de Rey and they were the parents of John Count O'Byrne. Count O'Byrne married in 1864 Eleanor Von Hubner daughter of the Austrian Ambassador to France and Rome. In the mid 19th century Edward H. Byrne held a townland in the parish of Twomileborris, barony of Eliogarty, county Tipperary and in the 1870s his son Count O'Byrne of Corville, Roscrea, owned 2,753 acres in county Tipperary and 1,125 acres in county Louth.