Estate: Forbes (Raheen)

Associated Families

• O'Hara (Raheen)
• Forbes (Raheen)

Description

In the 1870s Major Forbes of "Rasheen" [Raheen] owned 820 acres in county Galway. This was William Forbes of Callendar, Falkirk, Scotland, who, in June 1859, married Rose, daughter of John O'Hara of Raheen, county Galway.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Raheen (H552) Raheen is associated with both the Kilkelly and O'Hara families. In the 1770s it seems to have been a residence of the Taylor family, with whom the O'Haras intermarried. In the 1830s the OS Name Books record it as "a neat house, in form like a cottage two stories high." Raheen House was badly damaged by fire in the latter part of the twentieth century. The entrance gateway is still extant.	Raheen Demesne	Ardrahan	Gort	Cahermore 102	Kiltartan	Galway	Lat/Lon: 53.10529 -8.83325 OSI Ref: M442064 Discovery map #52. OS Sheet #122.

Archival sources

Contemporary printed sources

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• 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] : 165
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 295

Modern printed sources

• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: I, 661

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