Landed Estates
University of Galway

Thornhill (Drumsnat)

Estate(s)
Townland Thornhill
Civil Parish Drumsnat
PLU Monaghan
DED Drumsnat
County Monaghan
Barony Monaghan
Description John Johnston is described in the Ordnance Survey Field Name Book as the only gentleman resident in the parish. He lived at Thornhill. On 13 June June 1854, this house and a demesne of about 40 acres was for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. The owners and petitioners were Mary Johnson, widow, Maria and Jane Johnson and Martha Dudgeon, formerly Johnson. The property was held under a lease (1738) for 999 years. By the time of Griffith’s Valuation Robert Thomson was the occupant holding the property from Owen B. Cole & Olivia Lucas. The buildings were valued at £25. Home of Felix P. Smith and family in 1911.
Thornhill (buildingsofireland.ie/)

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