Landed Estates
University of Galway
Reference Source

WELD, Isaac. ''Statistical Survey of the county of Roscommon''. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1832.

Source Details

Category Contemporary printed sources

Estate Records Citing this Source

Found 38 estate records citing this source.

Reference Estate Name Estate Description
289, 651 French /ffrench (Frenchpark) Patrick French fitzStephen of Galway is recorded as the earliest member of the family to be associat...
231-243 & 651 King (Kingston/Lorton) The King estate was one of the largest in Connacht including lands in Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo as wel...
651 Mahon/Pakenham-Mahon In February 1666 Captain Nicholas Mahon was granted over 2,700 acres in the barony of Roscommon and...
651 St. George Richard St George, a member of a Cambridgeshire family, came to Ireland in the 17th century and was...
651 Talbot (Mount Talbot) The Talbots were descended from a younger son of the Talbots of Malahide in the 16th century. They w...
651 Tenison/Tennison/King-Tenison This branch of the Tenison family is descended from members of the family who settled in the north...
651 Wills (Castlereagh) In 1703 two brothers, Caspar and James Wills, purchased part of the forfeited estate of King James I...
651 Caulfeild (Dunamon) The Dunamon estate was held under a lease for 500 years from John King, Lord Kingston to Thomas Caul...
651. Lloyd (Rockville) Rockville, originally a Blackburn property, came into the possession of the Lloyd family following t...
651 Barton The centre of the Barton estate was at Waterfoot near Pettigo in county Donegal. Through marriages w...
484, 651 O'Conor Don The O'Conor Don ancestral lands were in County Roscommon centred on Clonalis House near Castlerea....
651 Ferrall (Co Roscommon) In the early 19th century John Farrell or Ferrall acquired large tracts of land mainly in county Ros...
651 Grace The Mantua estate in county Roscommon came into Grace ownership in the 18th century through the marr...
246 & 651 Goff This family were descended from the Goff family of Kingstown, Dublin who had married into the Caulfi...
651 Kelly (Aghrane Castle/Castle Kelly) The Kellys were settled at Castlekelly, Ballygar, barony of Killian, county Galway, from the late 17...
282 & 651 Lloyd (Croghan & Leitrim) The Lloyd estate was centred on Croghan, close to Carrick-on-Shannon but located in county Roscommon...
651 Naghten (Thomastown) The Naghtens or O'Naghtens were one of the old Gaelic families who managed to retain some of their f...
245 Duckworth William Duckworth held an estate at Erris close to Boyle at the time of Griffith's Valuation which h...
486. O'Conor (Milltown/Milton) The O'Conors of Milltown, barony of Castlereagh, county Roscommon, share a common ancestry with the...
483. Sandford/Wills Sandford The descendants of Captain Theophilus Sandford of Moyglare, county Meath, settled at Castlerea, coun...
651. Mulloy In the later nineteenth century the Mulloy estate was centred on the demesne of Hughestown, county R...
651. Pelly In 1677 Peter Pilley was granted over 800 acres in county Galway (baronies of Longford and Clonmacno...
651. Crofton (Mohill) In the 1870s Sir Morgan Crofton held almost 10,000 acres in county Leitrim. the estate was centred o...
651. Young (Castlerea & Sligo) The Young family held lands in the parish of Drumcliff according to the 1749 Census of Elphin. In 18...
651. Mitchell (Castle Strange) Cornet Thomas Mitchell from Scotland settled at Castlestrange, county Roscommon in the mid 17th cent...
651. Dillon (Mount Dillon) John Dillon was transplanted from county Westmeath to county Roscommon in the 17th century. His des...
651. Balfe The Balfe family were settled at Heathfield in county Roscommon in the 18th century but had moved to...
651. Kelly (Turrock) This family of Kellys had an estate in the parishes of Taghboy and Cam, barony of Athlone, county Ro...
651. Kelly (Rookwood) This family is well recorded in Vera Hughes' book. Crofton Kelly and his wife Elizabeth Threwles we...
651. Mapother A Dorset family, established in county Roscommon since Elizabethan times, who intermarried with the...
651. Auchmuty The Auchmutys were a family of Scottish extraction who settled in Longford in the 17th century. They...
651. Lloyd (Smith Hill) The Lloyds of Smith Hill were a branch of the Lloyds of Croghan. Robert Jones Lloyd of Smithhill Ho...
651. Fry The Fry estate was located adjacent to Boyle. The family had been invited to Boyle by Lord Kingston...
651. Digby (Drumdaff) Thomas Digby was resident at Ballymartin, parish of Rosccommon in 1749. In 1828 Thomas G. Digby was...
651. French (Cloonyquin) ''Burke's Irish Family Records'' states that Arthur French of Tyrone bought Cloonyquin from the Righ...
651 Browne (Newtown) Arthur Browne, a younger son of John Browne of Westport 1st Earl of Altamont was given an estate in...
651 Mills Members of the Mills family of county Roscommon attended Trinity College, Dublin in the 18th century...
651 Caulfeild (Colamber Manor) In 1828 Col William Caulfeild [of Benown, Glassan, Athlone, Co. Westmeath] was a member of the Grand...