Estate: Taaffe (Killedan)

Associated Families

• Strong
• Taaffe (Killedan)
• McManus (Killedan)
• Taaffe (Woodfield)

Description

Killedan townland, parish of Killedan, barony of Gallen, county Mayo, was church land held by the Knox family of Castlereagh, near Killala, who leased it and other lands to the Taaffes. The Taaffes of Killedan were descended from James and Marie Taaffe, Marie was a niece of the Catholic lawyer, Terence MacDonagh. By the time of Griffith's Valuation Reverend Leonard Strong held Killedan townland and James McManus occupied the house. Anthony Rafftery, Raiftearaí, the poet, grew up on this estate. In the 1870s a William Taaffe of the United States of America owned over 800 acres in county Mayo. It is not clear if he was a member of the Taaffe family of Killedan.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Killedan (H150) The seat of the Taaffe family and later the home of the McManuses, a well known medical family of whom Emily McManus, Matron of Guy's Hospital, London, was a member.	Killedan	Killedan	Swineford	Killedan 112	Gallen	Mayo	Lat/Lon: 53.87762 -9.01277 OSI Ref: M334 925 Discovery map #32. OS Sheet #71.

Archival sources

• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Taaffe of Co Sligo and of Greyfield, Brooklawn, Woodfield, Killedan, Co Mayo, also Earls of Carlingford and Viscount Taaffe, 1284-1835. GO MS 172, 141-154
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Taaffe of Cos Louth and Sligo and of Greyfield, Brooklawn, Woodfield, Killedan and Ballynegarvey, Co Mayo c 1250-1871. GO MS 171, 323-336
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Taaffe of Ballyneglocgh, county Sligo. GO MS 175. 323-330

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Swineford Union, 164
• 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] : 437
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 237
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 135
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Mayo: Vol V, 101
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 312

Modern printed sources

• Studies: MACDONAGH, J.C. Counsellor Terence MacDonagh. Part II, Some Collateral Descendants. XXXVII (1948), 65-74
• RUANE, Patrick. Thesis entitled Mayo Country Houses before 1840 - Vernacular country houses in the classical tradition (M.U.B.C.), 1996: Appendix VI
• SOBOLEWSKI, Peter & SOLAN, Betty. Kiltimagh, Our Life and Times. Kiltimagh Historical Society, 1996: 27 & 31