Landed Estates
University of Galway

Ballyoughter

Estate(s)
Townland Lurgan
Civil Parish Shankill
PLU Strokestown
DED Rossmore 98
County Roscommon
Barony Roscommon
Description Occupied by John Goldsmith at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He held the house valued at £8 and 60 acres from Marcus McCausland. Another John Goldsmith was residing in Ballyoughter a hundred years earlier at the time of the Elphin Census. Wilson also refers to the house as the seat of Mr. Goldsmith in 1786. A later house, also named Ballyoughter House, is shown on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s and there is still a house at this site,

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