Mullowney, Peter
(2002)
The Expansion and Decline
of The O’Donel Estate
Newport, County Mayo
1785-1852.
Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Abstract
This thesis examines the history of the O’Donel estate in West Mayo, from the
purchase of the estate by Sir Neal O’Donel in the late eighteenth century to the sale of
most of the estate, in the 1850s in the Encumbered Estates Court, by his grandson Sir
Richard Annesley O’Donel. The estate was purchased from John Thomas Medlicott and
Thomas John Medlicott for £33,589 19s 4d, which was equal to nineteen years and a
half purchase of the rental income minus the head rent amounting to £1722 11s 3d per
year. 1 The O’Donels owned land in three baronies of Mayo, the Tarmon estate in the
barony of Erris, the Cong estate in the barony of Kilmaine and the Newport estate in the
barony of Burrishoole. Included in the sale of lands by the Medlicotts was also land in
Counties Tipperary, Kilkenny and Waterford but this was probably disposed of almost
immediately as the only reference to it in the O’Donel papers is in the deed of sale of 17
July 1774.
| Item Type: |
Thesis
(Masters)
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| Keywords: |
O’Donel Estate;
Newport;
1785-1852; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History |
| Item ID: |
5186 |
| Depositing User: |
IR eTheses
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| Date Deposited: |
17 Jul 2014 08:16 |
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