Landed Estates
University of Galway

O'Heney/Heney


Estate(s)

Name Description
O'Heney/Heney At the time of Griffith's Valuation William Dwyer held a house valued at £1.6 shillings from James Heney in the townland of Brittas, Cashel, county Tipperary. James O'Heney was a solicitor in Cashel, county Tipperary, in the late 19th century. In the mid 1870s he owned 48 acres in county Tipperary while Denis Heney of Rockview, Cashel, owned 104 acres. James O'Heney died in 1891 (''The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal'' Vol 25). He bought the townland of Brittas from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1874 and in 1906 [his son] James O'Heney held untenanted lands in the townlands of Brittas and Caroll's Park. He also occupied a mansion house valued at £25.