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Joyce (Rahasane)
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The Joyce family of Rahasane were connected with the Joyces of Mervue and also of Corgary. They held lands in the parishes of Annaghdown and Lackagh, barony of Clare in the 1850s.
Lands owned by Walter Joyce in the baronies of Kilconnell and Loughrea, county Galway, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates court in April 1858.
Thomas Appleyard Joyce's mansion and demesne lands at Rahasane as well as lands in the barony of Clare and property in the town of Galway, amounting to over 2000 acres in total, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates court in June 1871. Parts of his estate had also been offered for sale in February 1870. Among the purchasers at this sale were Messers. Ashworth, Lattey and Newman as well as other lots purchased in trust. The Irish Times reported that the only lot sold at the June 1871 sale was the mansion house and demesne at Rahasane, bought by Lt. Joyce of the 54th Regiment, for over £16,000. T.A. Joyce is still recorded as the owner of over 600 acres in county Galway later in the 1870s.
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Bourke (Curraghleagh & Rahasane)
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Isidore Bourke, a younger son of Joseph Bourke of Carrowkeel, county Mayo, had an estate in the parish of Kilcolman, barony of Clanmorris, county Mayo, which he purchased from the Kirwans of Dalgan. He also held lands from the Moores, formerly of Brees, county Mayo and of Cloghan Castle, county Offaly. In 1876 his son, Captain Joseph Cormack Bourke of 29th Foot, held 4141 acres in county Mayo. Captain Bourke died in 1877 and was succeeded by his brother, Walter Bourke of Curraghleagh and Rahasane Park, county Galway, which he must have bought from the Joyces in the mid 1870s. Walter Bourke was murdered outside the gates of Castle Taylor, Ardrahan, county Galway, in 1882. A third brother, Isidore Bourke, sold 4181 acres in county Mayo to the Congested Districts' Board in February 1902 for £30,394.
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