Landed Estates
University of Galway

Gortgranard

Estate(s)
Townland Gortgranard
Civil Parish Killeevan
PLU Clones
DED Newbliss
County Monaghan
Barony Dartree
Description This house is marked on the 1st edition 6 inch Ordnance Survey Map (1836) and is named on the 25 inch map (surveyed in 1908). It was the home of the Campbell family, Lewis records Mrs Graham as proprietor. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Book describes the residence of Mrs Graham, widow of Captain Campbell Graham as a ‘good building with large orchards, gardens, out houses etc’. In the mid-19th century it was valued at £20 and held by Samuel Campbell from Thomas de Burgh. Samuel Campbell of Gortgranagh died in 1879 and his wife Mary in 1913. Both are buried in Killeevan COI graveyard. Home of a farming family named Lee at the beginning of the 20th century.

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