Estate: Tottenham

Associated Families

• Tottenham
• Adamson (Glenfarne)

Description

The Tottenham family's main properties were based in Leinster, especially in the counties of Wicklow and Wexford. However, they also held property in Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo and Waterford. In 1802 McParlan recorded Mr. Tottenham as a non-resident proprietor in county Leitrim. The main house was at Glenfarne but the family also held property at Glenade. Members of the family served as High Sheriffs of Leitrim on six occasions in the nineteenth century between 1820-1898. The estate in county Leitrim amounted to over 14,500 acres in the 1870s. Almost 6000 acres was offered for sale in the Land Judges' Court in 1878 and 1883. In 1766 Charles Tottenham of New Ross, county Wexford, brother of Nicholas Loftus Tottenham of Glenfarne, married Frances Boswell, daughter and heiress of Robert Boswell of Ballycurry, county Wicklow. Frances Boswell owned land in the parish of Kilronan, barony of Boyle, county Roscommon and in the parishes of Ahamlish and Drumrat, county Sligo, in the 18th century. In 1814 Charles Tottenham of Glenfarne married Dorothea, daughter and heiress of George Crowe of Nutfield, county Clare. Dorothea Tottenham held land in the parishes of Templemaley, barony of Bunratty Upper and Tulla, barony of Tulla Upper, county Clare, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In May 1855, Arthur Loftus Tottenham, a minor, offered for sale his lands in the barony of Gaultiere, county Waterford, amounting to 140 acres. The Freeman's Journal reported that it was purchased by Mr. Walsh for over £1000.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Glenfarne Hall (H393) Glenfarne Hall, overlooking Lough MacNean, was built around 1820 for Charles Henry Tottenham. In 1906 it was owned by Col. J.G. Adamson and was valued at £50. It was subsequently a holiday home of Edward Harland of Harland & Wolf shipyards in Belfast. The 1943 Irish Tourist Association survey recorded that only the gutted ruins of the house remained.The area has been extensively afforested since then and is now part of a forest park owned by Coillte.	Ardmoneen	Clooneclare	Manorhamilton	Glenfarne 52	Dromahaire	Leitrim	Lat/Lon: 54.29609 -7.97235 OSI Ref: H018386 Discovery map #26. OS Sheet #13.
Brookfield House (H522) Arthur Loftus Tottenham was leasing a house valued at £14 to James Tate here in 1856.	Cherrybrook	Clooneclare	Manorhamilton	Kiltyclogher 58	Rosclogher	Leitrim	Lat/Lon: 54.30680 -8.13367 OSI Ref: G913398 Discovery map #16. OS Sheet #8, 12.
Glenade House [Largydonnell] (H1562) The building at this site is labelled Largydonnell on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map. On the later 25-inch edition, Glenade House is noted. Loftus Tottenham was the owner of a property valued at £20 at Largydonnell, parish of Rossinver at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The sale in 1878 included this property. In 1894 Slater recorded it as the seat of George Loftus Tottenham. It is no longer extant.	Largydonnell	Rossinver	Ballyshannon	Aghanlish 2	Rosclogher	Leitrim	Lat/Lon: 54.41161 -8.30499 OSI Ref: G802515 Discovery map #16. OS Sheet #4.
Mount Callan (H1723) The original house was built by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Synge in the early 19th century but the present house was built in the 1870s. The property passed to the Tottenham family by the marriage of his daughter Mary to Robert Tottenham of Ballycurry, county Wicklow and is still in the possession of this family. The buildings were valued at £30 in 1906.	Ballynoe	Inagh	Ennistimon	Formoyle 54	Inchiquin	Clare	Lat/Lon: 52.84112 -9.23932 OSI Ref: R165 774 Discovery map #57. OS Sheet #32.
Finned (Tireragh) (H3608) At the time of Griffith's Valuation, George Beatty (or Beattie) was leasing a house valued at £5 and almost 100 acres from the Tottenham estate. McTernan states that he was referred to at the time of the Ordnance Survey as a "middleman for a large amount of property". Later the house passed by marriage to the Boyd family who sold it in the early twentieth century. It is still extant and has been renovated.	Finned	Easky	Dromore West	Easky West	Tireragh	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.29014 -9.00136 OSI Ref: G348384 Discovery map #24. OS Sheet #11.

Archival sources

• East Sussex Record Office: Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue B, includes items re Tottenham family (Ingram trustee) including a rentcharge on the Glenfarne estate in county Leitrim, Ireland, 29 & 30 Brunswick Square, Hove, and an estate in county Tipperary, Ireland, 1893-1895. Part of AMS2968-3006
• Leitrim County Library: Irish Tourist Association. Topographical and General Survey, 1941-1945. Parish of Cloonclare. File 131.
• Leitrim County Library: National Archives documents relating to Tottenham estate in Rossinver parish. File 192.
• National Archives of Ireland: Papers relating to Tottenham estate at Castletehin, county Roscommon, 18th-19th century. Hoey & Denning collection. Small Accs. Index 99
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Tottenham, 29 November 1878, Vol 134, MRGS 39/060, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Tottenham, 20 July 1883, Vol 145, MRGS 39/064, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Tottenham, 4 May 1855, Vol 2634, MRGS 39/016, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Library of Ireland: Maps of the estate of Nicholas Loftus Tottenham, 1797. Ms.9837.
• National Library of Ireland: Rental of estate of Ponsonby Tottenham, 1803. Ms.10, 162.
• National Library of Ireland: Map of Tottenham estate, barony of Tireragh, county Sligo. 16 I 10.
• National Library of Ireland: Map of Upper & Lower Finnod, parish of Easky, esate of Charles Tottenham, 1801. 16 I 16.
• National Library of Ireland: Rent ledger of estate of Frances Boswell in the parish of Kilronan, Co Roscommon and Ahamlish and Drumrat, Co Sligo. Microfilm copy P.4937
• National Library of Ireland: Mount Callan Papers, account of the Mount Callan estate & its occupiers 1837-1923, continued from Col Synge’s account by R. G. Tottenham, Mount Callan, Inagh. Microfilm P 4910
• National Library of Ireland: Longfield Maps, surveys of the lands of Maghry [Cappahard], Thiernaderry [Derry] & Faunriss[Faunrusk], parish of Templemaley, barony of Bunratty, county Clare, estate of C.H. Tottenham, 1815. 21 F. 32 (31-32)
• National Library of Ireland: Longfield Maps, survey of lands of Doonane & Drummaghmartin, barony of Tulla, county Clare, estate of Tottenham esq, let to Henry Molony, 1815. 21 F. 32 (36)
• Private Possession: Contact National Library of Ireland
• Sligo County Library: Rentals of Tottenham (& Langley, Thompson) estates in parish of Ballysumaghan, 1850. F.C./D.4/18.

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. : Manorhamilton Union, 2. Ballyshannon Union, 33.
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Dromore West Union, 5 (Finned)
• 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] : 447
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol I, 352.
• McPARLAN, James. Statistical Survey of the county of Leitrim. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1802. : 110.
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Leitrim: Vol Ii, 541.
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Sligo: 359
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 218 (Ballynoe)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 178 (Watrerford), 306 (Leitrim), 323 (Roscommon)
• SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) : xxvii & 84 (Glenade)

Modern printed sources

• Breifne: Mac an GHALLOGLAIGH, Domhnall. The Land League in Leitrim, 1879-1883. VI, 22 (1983-84), 161-168.
• Breifne: GRIMES, Seamus. The changing rural landscape of North Leitrim from the mid-17th to the mid-20th century. III, 11 (1968), 340-346.
• Freeman's Journal: Incumbered Estates Court sale reports, 2 May 1855, p.4.
• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 212 (Mount Callan)
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1912: 698
• DAY, Angélique & McWILLIAMS, Patrick (eds). Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland; counties of South Ulster. Belfast: Inst. of Irish Studies, 1998. : 50
• GLENFARNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Glenfarne: a history. Glenfarne, county Leitrim: Glenfarne Historical Society, 2014. : White, Frank. The history of the Tottenham estate of Glenfarne. pp.17-28.
• HARRISON, A (compiler). A roll of all gentlemen....High Sheriffs, MPs & other officers of county Leitrim, 1600-1909. Carrick-on-Shannon: printed by P. Brennan, 1910. : 9-14.
• KAVANAGH, Art & MURPHY, Rory. Wexford Gentry. Vols. 1 & 2. Bunclody: Irish Family Names, 1994. : Vol. II. Tottenham of Tottenham Green, 200-215.
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 1109-1114.
• McTERNAN, John C. Sligo: the light of bygone days, Vol.I Houses of Sligo and associated families. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. : 334-335 (Finned)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Special Lists.: Summary Catalogue of material in deed boxes in the strong room of McGillicuddy, Darley & Orpen, solicitors, Kildare St, Dublin, include records re Tottenham estates. Special List 350
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Supplementary report on the Tottenham papers. N..311.
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Supplementary report on the Tottenham papers. No. 51
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Tottenham papers froms 1663. No. 182.
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Supplementary report on the Tottenham papers, No. 386.
• Ó DUIGNEÁIN, P. North Leitrim in Famine times. Manorhamilton: Drumlin Publications, 1986. : 12
• Ó RUNAÍ, Lorcan. From Rosclogher to Rooskey: the Leitrim story [n.p]: Cumann Seanchas Ros Inbhir, 1996: 207-209.