Whyte (Carrickfad)

Estate(s)

Name	Description
Whyte (Newtown Manor)	Colonel John James Whyte is recorded as the owner of over 9000 acres in county Leitrim in the 1880s. At the time of Griffith's Valuation he held property in the parish of Drumlease, barony of Dromahaire. He lived at Newtown Manor, sometimes described as Dromahaire and sometimes as Sligo. He also had a house at Glencar Lodge, county Leitrim. In 1874 Charles Cecil Beresford Whyte married Petronella Halberg of Swedan, who succeeded to the estates of Charles Manners St George in counties Leitrim & Roscommon. In 1906 Charles B. Whyte was the owner of over 1000 acres of untenanted land at Scramore as well as the mansion house at Carrickfad. In 1911 an offer was accepted from the Congested Districts Board on over 9,000 acres of the Whyte estate.
St. George	Richard St George, a member of a Cambridgeshire family, came to Ireland in the 17th century and was appointed Governor of the town of Athlone. His grandson Richard St George of Carrick on Shannon, county Leitrim, had 2 natural children, Richard St George founder of the Hatley Manor, county Leitrim branch of the family and Mary St George, who married James Mansergh and they were the parents of Colonel Richard Mansergh St George of Headford, county Galway. Members of the family served as High Sheriffs of Leitrim in the eighteenth century. Charles Manners St. George and his Swedish wife Christina were the owners of the St.George estate in Leitrim in the mid-19th century. Petronella Halberg, niece of Christina St George, married Charles Whyte of Newtown Manor and the Whytes inherited Hatley Manor and much of the St George property. The representative of Mrs. St. George are listed as the owners of over 1600 acres in 1876. The family also held lands in counties Offaly, Roscommon, Tipperary (629 acres in the parish of Donaghmore, barony of Iffa and Offa East) and Waterford where Christina St George is recorded as the owner of over 1000 acres. Over 300 acres of Sir John St. George's estate in the latter county was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in June 1878. Sir Richard St. George of Tully is recorded as a member of the Grand Panel of county Roscommon in 1828. In 1852 the Roscommon portion of the estate in the barony of Moycarn was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court.This was the property of Richard Bligh St. George and Thomas Baldwin St. George. However, it appears not to have all been sold as Kate St.George was a principal lessor in the parish of Moore, barony of Moycarn, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Her property was sublet from the Bishop of Meath. In the 1870s she is recorded as owning over 1700 acres in county Roscommon and was resident at Cheltenham, England.
Phibbs (Drumlease)	Burton Phibbs was the lessor of several townlands in the parish of Drumlease, barony of Dromahaire, in the 1850s. In 1871 the assignees of Burton Phibbs together with others, offered for sale lands at Kilmore and Banagher in the barony of Drumahaire in the Landed Estates Court. The lands were held on perpetual lease from the While estate. Miss Anne Phibbs, late of 92 Bedford St. Liverpool and the representatives of Mrs. Margaret Phibbs, of 38 Gloucester St. Dublin are described as holding 618 and 1129 acres respectively in Leitrim in the late 1870s.