Estate: Ormsby Gore

Associated Families

• Ormsby Gore (Baron Harlech)
• Nisbett

Description

LordHarlech's estate held land in the baronies of Leyny, Tireragh and Tirerrill in county Sligo as well as over 2000 acres in county Leitrim including lands in the parish of Drumreilly, barony of Dromahaire. They also owned over 1000 acres in the parish of Killasser, barony of Gallen, county Mayo. Their main residence in the west of Ireland was at Derrycarne, near Drumod, county Leitrim, which had previously been part of the Nisbet family estate. The family also held property in the parishes of Cloone and Drumreilly, barony of Mohill, county Leitrim and Kilcooley, barony and county of Roscommon. The Ormsby-Gore family also held properties at Brogyntynx, in Wales as well as in England. In the 1870s the estate was comprised of 21,019 acres in county Sligo, 7,480 acres in county Leitrim, 1,174 acres in county Mayo and 172 acres in county Roscommon. In 1906 the estate held over 100 acres of untenanted land at Willowbrook, barony of Carbury, county Sligo. Lord Harlech sold 1,367 acres in county Mayo to the Congested Districts' Board on 28 July 1906 and a further 1172 acres on 22 Feb 1912.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Clooskirt (H174) At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Mrs. Ormsby Gore was leasing this property to William Wilson. It was then valued at £12. At the same time Ruttledge Burrowes was leasing a property valued at £4 with over 140 acres of land from the Ormsby Gore estate. Johnston states that a "model farm" was established here in the later nineteenth century. This townland is mentioned as Clooshire, in 1906, when George Ormsby Gore was the owner of the property but there is no valuation given for buildings at that time. It was subsequently lived in by the St. Lawrence family.	Clooskirt	Ballynakill	Boyle	Ballynakill 49	Tirerrill	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.15982 -8.38121 OSI Ref: G751235 Discovery map #25. OS Sheet #27.
Carns Lodge (H237) In 1906 Lord Harlech's estate was the owner of buildings valued at £18 at Carns, parish of Kilmacteige. . McTernan notes the house as Carns Lodge, which he says was built in the late 1850s as a gamekeeper's house. It is still extant and occupied.	Carns	Kilmacteige	Tobercurry	Aclare	Leyny	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.03223 -8.89136 OSI Ref: G416096 Discovery map #24. OS Sheet #.
Derrycarne (H446) At the time of Griffith's Valuation Derrycarne was the property of William Ormsby Gore and was valued at £30. Lewis records it as the seat of the Nisbett family in 1837. In 1906 it was in the possession of Lord Harlech (Ormsby Gore) and was valued at £33. The Ormsby Gore estate was eventually sold in 1924 and Derrycarne and about 80 acres were acquired by a Colonel Kirkwood, a relative of the Kirkwood family of Woodbrook, county Roscommon. It changed hands again several times before being acquired by the Land Commission in 1952. The house was demolished shortly afterwards.	Derrycarne Demesne	Annaduff	Mohill	Drumod 71	Mohill	Leitrim	Lat/Lon: 53.86930 -7.96655 OSI Ref: N022911 Discovery map #. OS Sheet #35.
Willowbrook (H1458) At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Andrew McCullough was leasing a property at Willowbrook, valued at £13, from Mrs. Ormsby Gore. In 1906 Lord Harlech's estate owned property valued at £3 at Willowbrook, barony of Carbury. McTernan notes that the house was accidentaly destroyed by fire in December 1867. The ruin is still visible.	Willowbrook	Calry	Sligo	Calry	Carbury	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.29984 -8.42552 OSI Ref: G723391 Discovery map #16. OS Sheet #9.
Carrick House (H1470) Johnston states that Carrickcoola was owned by the Ormsby Gore estate but was the residence of the McLoghrey family. McTernan indicates that the original house was of two stories but that this was later replaced by a single storey building. The Ormsby Gore estate owned 22 acres of untenanted land in Carrickcoola, barony of Tirerrill, in 1906 but the buildings are not listed. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Maj. Ormsby Gore owned the townland and was leasing a house valued at only 10s to Thomas McCloghrey together with over 130 acres.	Carrickcoola	Ballynakill	Sligo	Ballynakill	Tirerrill	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.15265 -8.37502 OSI Ref: G755227 Discovery map #25. OS Sheet #27.
Leitrim House (Achonry) (H1597) The 1st edition OS map indicates "Leitrim House (in ruins)" at Leitrim South, barony of Leyny. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Thomas Kane was leasing 85 acres here from the Ormsby Gore estate though the herd's house on the property only had a valuation of 5s.	Leitrim South	Achonry	Tobercurry	Leitrim	Leyny	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.05069 -8.67950 OSI Ref: G555115 Discovery map #25. OS Sheet #38.
Branchfield House (Leyny) (H3381) The residence of the McKim family for many generations, Branchfield was enlarged and extended in the later nineteenth century. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was held from Catherine Gore by Patrick McKim and valued at £5. McTernan states that the lands were sold to the Congested Districts Board in 1910, though the family retained the house. It is currently undergoing renovation.	Carrownacreevy	Achonry	Tobercurry	Branchfield 71	Leyny	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.12954 -8.71598 OSI Ref: G532203 Discovery map #25. OS Sheet #32.
Belvoir (Sligo) (H4885) Wilson refers to Belvoir, situated on the other side of the Garavogue river from Hazelwood, as the seat of Mr. Ormsby in 1786. By the time of Griffith's Valuation, the property here is held by John Wynne and referred to as "a servant's house", valued at £2 15s. Buildings are still extant at the site.	Carns	St. John	Sligo	Calry 58	Carbury	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.25215 -8.44344 OSI Ref: G711338 Discovery map #16. OS Sheet #15.

Archival sources

• Irish Architectural Archive: Derrycarne. Photographs of watercolours. 086/077.
• Leitrim County Library: Notes re Derrycarne & Aughry estates. File 436.
• National Library of Wales: 14th-19th century family and estate papers.
• Sligo County Library: Account book & rentals of Wm. Ormsby-Gore estates in Sligo & Mayo, 1859-1867.
• Sligo County Library: Account book of Lord Harlech's estate, 1881-1885.

Contemporary printed sources

Many of these resources are now available online. For a list with Web links please see the Online Printed Sources Links

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mohill Union, 57 (Derrycarne)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Sligo Union, 78 (Willowbrook), 94 (Carns)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Boyle Union, 227 (Clooskirt)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Tobercurry Union, 56.
• BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.208
• 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] : 185, 205
• LEGG, Marie Louise (ed). Census of Elphin 1749. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2004: 545 (Willybrook)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 18th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland, [Cd 4927] HC 1909, xvi. Appendix XXXII: 140
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 350 (Derrycarne), 393 (Willowbrook) & 396 (Carns [Ivy Lodge])
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland, [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 51 & 60.
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 304, 316, 321
• WILSON, William. The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 93 (Belvoir)

Modern printed sources

• FORDE, P. and CLANCY,E. (eds). Ballinaglera & Inishmagrath: history and traditions of two Leitrim parishes. Carrick-on-Shannon: Maura Clancy, 2003. : 56-57
• GLIN, Knight of, GRIFFIN, D. J. & ROBINSON, N.K (eds). Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive/Irish Georgian Society, 1989. : 95.
• JOHNSTON, Jack (ed). The Riverstown story:county Sligo . Riverstown, county Sligo: Riverstown Enterprise Development, 2005. : 37.
• McTERNAN, John C. Sligo: the light of bygone days, Vol.I Houses of Sligo and associated families. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. : 33-34 (Branchfield), 271-271 (Carns Lodge), 205-206 (Willowbrook), 293-295 (Cloonskirt)
• TIMONEY, Martin A (ed). Dedicated to Sligo: thirty-four essays on Sligo's past. Sligo: Publishing Sligo's past, 2013. : Timoney, Martin A. "Hints towards a natural and topographical history of the county of Sligoe" by the Rev. William Henry, 1739", p.150. [Willowbrook]
• WARD, Tony. Eanach Dubh: a history of Annaduff and Dromod. [n.p]: [the author], 1993. : 61-62