Landed Estates
University of Galway
Reference Source

MCDONALD, Theresa. ''Achill Island''. IAS Publications, 1997

Source Details

Category Modern printed sources

Estate Records Citing this Source

Found 11 estate records citing this source.

Reference Estate Name Estate Description
215-216 & 219-220 McLoughlin The McLoughlins held extensive lands in the parishes of Achill and Burrishoole, barony of Burrishool...
167-170 Pike William Pike bought 7,791 acres of Carrickkildavnet, Dereen and Shraheens, parish of Achill, barony...
167 Brassey Thomas Brassey bought 2,592 acres on Achill island, barony of Burrishoole, county Mayo, part of the...
167-171 Achill Mission The O'Donel estate on the island of Achill was bought by Trustees of the Achill Mission in associati...
214-215 Medlycott The Burrishoole estate of approximately 70,000 acres was acquired by Thomas Medlycott, Chief Commiss...
217-219 O'Donel Some of the O'Donnells of Ulster settled in county Mayo in the 17th century, initially in the Ballyc...
220 McCormack In the early 1850s William McCormack of the Irish Beetroot and Sugar Manufacturing Company bought mo...
232-233 Blacker Murray MacGregor Blacker was a nephew of William Blacker, a well known author of books on agricultur...
71 Lambart In 1876 Frederick J.W. Lambart, 8th Earl of Cavan, owned 1900 acres on Achill Island and in 1888 the...
167 McHale Most Reverend John McHale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, bought the townland of Bunnacurry [1,...