Landed Estates
University of Galway
Reference Source

BLAKE, Tarquin. ''Abandoned mansions of Ireland''. Cork: Collins Press, 2010.

Source Details

Category Modern printed sources

Estate Records Citing this Source

Found 31 estate records citing this source.

Reference Estate Name Estate Description
30-35 (Clooney) Bindon The Bindon family were located in the counties of Clare and Limerick from the late 17th century. Dav...
36-45 (Doonass) Massy (Doonass) The Reverend Charles Massy, Dean of Limerick, was a younger brother of Hugh Baron Massy. He married...
46-53 (Buttevant Castle) Barry Burke's Extinct Peerage records the building of Barry's Court castle by Philip de Barry in 1206. T...
46-53 (Buttevant Castle) Anderson (Fermoy) Hajba writes that John Anderson was a Scottish entrepreneur who came to Cork in 1780. He was a merc...
46-53 (Buttevant Castle) St. Leger A Norman family who first established connections with the Province of Munster in the mid 16th centu...
60-67 (Carrigmore) Lysaght/MacLysaght (Hazlewood & Raheen) The MacLysaght or Lysaght family were mainly located in county Clare in the 17th century. In 1749 W...
60-67 (Carrigmore), 68-73 (Fort Robert) Conner (Manch) Burke indicates that the Conners first settled in the town of Bandon in the late seventeenth century...
60-67 (Carrigmore) Holmes (East Carbery) Benjamin H. Holmes was among the principal lessors in the parish of Fanlobbus, barony of East Carber...
74-81 (Kincraigie) Leslie (Cork) The Leslies of Cork were a branch of the Leslie family of Kincraigie, county Donegal, descended from...
96-103 (Bunowen Castle) Geoghegan/O'Neill (Bunowen) Art Geoghegan of Castletown, county Westmeath, was transplanted to the confiscated O'Flaherty lands...
96-103 (Bunowen Castle) & 238-245 (Towerhill) Blake (Towerhill & Bunowen) The Blakes of Menlo Castle, county Galway, held the lands of Clonyne and Clooneen or Towerhill, pari...
232-237 (Hollymount House) Lindsey (Hollymount) This branch of the Lindsey family were descended from a younger son of the first Lindsey of Turin, p...
232-237 (Hollymount House) Vesey In December 1698 John Vesey, Archbishop of Tuam from 1679 to 1716, bought almost 750 acres in the Ho...
202-208 (Dromore Castle) Pery Sometime in the mid 17th century Susanna Sexton, eventually heiress to the Sexton estates in county...
210-217 (The Grange) O'Grady/Grady (The Grange) The O'Gradys of The Grange, parish of Fedamore, county Limerick, were a branch of O'Gradys of Kilbal...
272-281 (Rockingham Demesne, Castleisland & Cloontykilla Castle) King (Kingston/Lorton) The King estate was one of the largest in Connacht including lands in Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo as wel...
282-287 (Seafield) Phibbs (Seafield) The Phibbs family acquired an estate in Kilmacowen in the late 18th century. The estate was based ar...
296-303 (Rochestown) Barton (Rochestown) In the mid 19th century the representatives of Dunbar Barton (died 1848), sixth son of William Barto...
104-109 (Castledaly) Daly (Castledaly) This branch of the Dalys were descended from the Dalys of Killimer and also Dalysgrove, near Ahascra...
110-117 (Castlegrove) Blake (Castlegrove) By his will (1612) Robert Blake of Ardfry left the lands of Castlegrove or Fartigare as they were o...
110-117 (Castlegrove) Lewin (Cloghans) A family who were settled on the Galway/Mayo border at Cloghans, parish of Kilmainemore, barony of K...
110-117 (Castlegrove) Cannon Henry Cannon bought the village of Kilmaine, county Mayo, and surrounding townlands from the Millers...
118-123 (Castlemoyle) Deane Thomas Deane, a merchant, was granted over 1,500 acres mainly in the baronies of Clare and Dunmore,...
118-123 (Castlemoyle) Nolan (Ballinderry) The Nolans were Elizabethan settlers in the Ballinrobe area of county Mayo. They lost most of their...
124-129 (Monksfield) Morgan (Monksfield) The Morgan family had acquired the Monksfield estate during the 17th century and were Cromwellian se...
124-129 (Monksfield) Shawe-Taylor Walter Taylor was granted almost a thousand acres in the barony of Kiltartan, county Galway in Febru...
136-139 (Carhen) O'Connell The O’Connells are an ancient Gaelic family, whom Burke claims had their origins in county Clare, be...
140-147 (Castlequin) Mahony (Dunkerron North) The Mahonys were originally a Gaelic Irish family, various branches of which held lands in Cork, Ker...
190-195 (Drumhierney) La Touche The La Touche family owned extensive estates in Kildare and Wicklow as well as property interests in...
196-201 (Lakefield) Crofton (Mohill) In the 1870s Sir Morgan Crofton held almost 10,000 acres in county Leitrim. the estate was centred o...