Estate: Morgan (Ballymacward)

Associated Families

• Morgan (Monksfield)
• McNamara Morgan
• Morgan (Ballymacward)

Description

At the time of Griffith's Valuation a house valued at £30 in the townland of Hampstead, parish of Ballymacward, was leased by Ellen Morgan and her sisters to Martin Blake. Over 250 acres of land at Garrymore and Hampstead, barony of Kilconnell, the property of Henry McNamara Morgan, were offered for sale in the Land Judges' court in June 1878 and January 1879. The original lease governing this property was dated 1718 from the Earl of Arran to Richard Warburton. In the 1870s Mrs M Morgan of Wellimount [Willmount], Athenry, Mrs Jane Mahon of Hampstead and Capt Butler of the Navy and Military Club owned over a thousand acres in county Clare. see McNamara Morgan entry

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Hampstead (H962) Built in the mid-18th century. In 1814 Hampstead House was the residence of John Bodkin. In 1837 Lewis recorded it as the seat of F.Davis. In 1853 it was occupied by Thomas Pilkington Davies who was leasing it from George Davies. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was leased by the Morgan family to Martin Blake. In 1906 it is recorded as being part of the estate of James Johnston. It is now a ruin.	Hampstead	Ballymacward	Ballinasloe	Ballymacward 7	Kilconnell	Galway	Lat/Lon: 53.39285 -8.51564 OSI Ref: M657382 Discovery map #46. OS Sheet #60, 72, 73.

Archival sources

• Irish Architectural Archive: Hampstead House. Photographs. 024/077.
• National Archives of Ireland: Land Judges Court Rentals (O?Brien), McNamara Morgan, 14 January 1879, Vol 135, MRGS 39/060, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Land Judges Court Rentals (O?Brien), McNamara Morgan, 29 June 1878, Vol 133, MRGS 39/059, (microfilm copy in NUIG)

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Ballinasloe Union, 65.
• HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 326
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 112

Modern printed sources