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Atkinson (Kilbarron)
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Thomas John Atkinson was the proprietor of over 3400 acres in County Donegal in the 1870s. The Atkinsons are recorded among the principal lessors in the parish of Kilbarron, barony of Tirhugh, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation in the 1850s. This family was established in the Ballyshannon area since the early seventeenth century when Thomas Atkinson was among those named as burgesses in the Borough of Ballyshannon. Burke suggests that the family derive from a Captain Charles Atkinson, originally of an ancient Yorkshire family.
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