Landed Estates
University of Galway
Reference Source

NORTON, Desmond. ''Landlords, tenants, famine: the business of an Irish land agency in the 1840s.'' Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2006.

Source Details

Category Modern printed sources

Estate Records Citing this Source

Found 13 estate records citing this source.

Reference Estate Name Estate Description
26-65. Temple/Cowper-Temple The association of the Temple family with county Sligo began in the seventeenth century when Sir Joh...
66-84. Crichton Sir Alexander Crichton of Seal Grove, Kent married Frances Dodwell in 1800. She was the heiress of E...
85-129. Ferrall (Co Roscommon) In the early 19th century John Farrell or Ferrall acquired large tracts of land mainly in county Ros...
85. Conmee The Conmee family were connected by marriage to the extensive Ferrall estate. At the time of Griffit...
76-79 Sandys Edwyn Sandys Reynolds, a Protestant gentleman, resided at "Darham" in 1749. Robert Sandes was livin...
130-148 Wingfield Stratford Edward and John Wingfield were twin brothers, sons of Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt, a...
139-140 Howley (Belleek Castle) The Howley family appear in both Hussey de Burgh and the 1876 Landowners Survey as owners of land in...
149-166 Nugent (Earl of Westmeath) In April 1678 Richard Nugent, Earl of Westmeath, was granted an estate of over 11,000 acres in the b...
7, 197-213 Stewart (Whitegate) In the 1870s Thomas B. Stewart of Whitegate House, Midleton, county Cork, owned 1,510 acres in count...
197-222 Warren (Ballinruane) At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Warren estate was in the parishes of Ballingarry and Kilmeed...
197-213 Fitzgerald/Penrose Fitzgerald (Corkbeg) In 1667 Garrett Fitzgerald was granted the castle, town and lands of Kilcorkbegg alias Corkbeg with...
197-213 Blakeney (Mount Blakeney) ''Burke's Irish Family Records'' states that this family claim descent from the Blakeneys of Norfolk...
244-255 (Phillipstown estate) Ponsonby (Imokilly) This branch of the Ponsonby family was descended from the Right Honourable John Ponsonby, Speaker of...