Landed Estates
University of Galway

Beresford/Le Poer Beresford

Family title

Marquis of Waterford, Lord Decies

Estate(s)

Name Description
Beresford/Le Poer Beresford The Beresford family, Marquis of Waterford and Viscount Tyrone, owned land in various parts of Ireland, including almost 40,000 acres in county Waterford, 26,000 in county Wicklow and over 4,500 acres in county Leitrim. In 1870, Lord Charles Beresford offered for sale leases on lands held from the Diocese of Kilmore in the Landed Estates' Court. These lands were situated in the barony of Carrigallen, county Leitrim and in county Cavan. The sale also included the demesne of Garadice and the mill at Boeshill. In December 1871 the Irish Times reported on the sale of 148 lots of the estate of the Marquis of Waterford in the Landed Estates Court. In 1878, Reverend Marcus Beresford owned 950 acres and Lord Charles Beresford is recorded as owning 500 acres in Leitrim. In 1850, the estate was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Clonagam, Guilcagh, Kilmeadan, Mothel and Rathgormuck, barony of Upperthird, Dungarvan and Kilrush, barony of Decies-without-Drum and Ballygunner, Crooke and Kilea, barony of Gaultiere, county Waterford. The Marquis also held land in the parish of Castletownarra, barony of Owney and Arra, county Tipperary. In 1666 Sir Tristram Beresford was granted extensive lands in county Cavan. The county Cavan estates held by the Beresford family, Marquesses of Waterford, were principally located in the parishes of Templeport, Drumreilly, Kilbride and Kildallan but also in the parishes of Loughan and Lurgan. These lands were held at the time of Griffith’s Valuation by the Most Reverend John George Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh, second son of the 1st Marquess. Other Beresford held lands were in the parishes of Urney, Kilmore, Ballintemple, Crosserlough, Castlerahan and Killinkere while the Reverend Marcus Beresford Bishop of Kilmore, held an extensive estate in county Cavan, comprised of townlands in the parishes of Killashandra, Crosserlough, Denn, Kilmore, Annagh, Kildrumsherdan, Larah, Drumgoon but mainly in the parish of Drung. In 1876, Lord Charles W. Beresford of Curraghmore, Waterford, second son of the 4th Marquess, owned 8,817 acres in county Cavan while the Most Reverend Marcus Gervais Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh, a cousin of the 2nd Marquess owned 6,218 acres. The representatives of J.D. Beresford, Dublin, and George De La Poer Beresford of Aubawn, Killeshandra, owned 3,356 and 570 acres respectively.
Massy Beresford (Limerick) In 1878 Hussey de Burgh records Reverend John Massy Beresford of St Huberts, Linaskea, county Fermanagh, as the owner of 2,262 acres in county Limerick, 488 acres in county Tipperary and 1,183 acres in county Fermanagh. The return of 1876 gives his address as Magpie Hill, Peebles, and records his ownership of 1,604 acres in county Limerick. Reverend John was a son of the Honourable John Massy and a grandson of the 2nd Baron Massy. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Honourable John Massy held land in the parishes of Ballingarry, barony of Connello Upper and Galbally, barony of Coshlea, county Limerick. In 1851 Reverend John Massy married Emily Sarah Beresford, a cousin of the Marquess of Waterford and a descendant of Sir Marcus Beresford, Earl of Tyrone. She was co-heiress to the estate of her brother, George Beresford, of Macbie Hill, Peebles, Scotland. She and her husband assumed the additional surname of Beresford.
Beresford (Woodhouse) In the 1870s Robert H. Beresford was the owner of over 2000 acres in county Waterford. Almost 200 acres of his estate in the barony of Decies-without-Drum was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in June 1874. The Uniacke estate at Woodhouse, Stradbally, was inherited by the Beresfords in the 1850s. The ITA Survey notes that this occurred through the marriage of Colonel Beresford to Frances C. Uniacke.
Slacke/Slack Rev. William Slacke, with an address at Newcastle, county Down, owned over 2000 acres in Leitrim in 1878. In 1856 a Rev. William Slack was occupying a property at Kiltubbrid owned by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. He was also the lessor of Lakeview House in Mohill parish to William Lawder and townlands in the parish of Drumreilly, barony of Dromahaire at that time. In May1859 the property at Annadale was being offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court by the Norris family. In July of that year Arthur Keene, the assignee of Thomas Slack, an insolvent, offered for sale the rental of lands at Drumcong or Bellview, in the barony of Leitrim. In January 1865 Anne Cunningham and William and Randal Slack were offering for sale the lands at Drumcong and Drumdart in the baronies of Leitrim and Mohill. Randal T. Slack, heir of William L. Slack offered over 100 acres for sale in the Land Judges Court in July 1879. The lands, in the barony of Carrigallen, had been purchased by William Slack from the Armstrong estate in 1878. The Slackes also held land in county Cavan, at least four townlands in the parish of Templeport, barony of Tullyhaw, on the Cavan/Leitrim border. These lands were held from the Beresford family, Earls of Tyrone and Marquesses of Waterford. Accounts in Cavan Library record Randal Slacke purchasing some of these lands including Ballymagauran from Frederick Lawder in the late 1740s. Ballymagauran was situated on the border between counties Cavan and Leitrim. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation Thomas and Arthur R. Slack each held two townlands in the parish of Templeport. A branch of the Slacke family came to live in a house named Marshwood in Ballymagauran in the 1860s. On 12 November 1861 the lands of Cornaguinla and Stranadarragh, the estate of Arthur Richardson Slake, were advertised for sale in the Landed Estates Court. These lands were originally leased by Randal Slacke from George Kirkwood of Cavan town in 1754. The sale was re advertised in April 1864 this time in the name of Godfrey Shaw Slacke. In 1876 Susanna Slack of The Copse, Ballymagauran, owned 341 acres and John Shaw Slack of Stranadarragh, Bawnboy, owned 32 acres in county Cavan.