Estate: Montagu

Associated Families

• Montagu (Earl of Sandwich)
• De Salis
• Fane (Viscount Fane)

Description

There are two Irish connections in the ancestry of the Earls of Sandwich. In the mid 17th century Edward Montagu 2nd Earl of Sandwich married Anne fourth daughter of Richard Boyle Earl of Burlington and in 1740 John 4th Earl of Sandwich married Dorothy Fane. ‘’Burke's Irish Family Records’’ (1976 - De Salis entry) states that she was co heiress, with her older sister Mary wife of the Count De Salis, to the Fane’s Irish estates, formerly in the possession of the Bourchier family. It appears that it was through this marriage that the Earl of Sandwich acquired his county Limerick estate as it was located in the same parishes as the De Salis county Limerick estate. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation the Earl held lands in the parishes of Ballinlough, Glenogra and Tullabracky, barony of Smallcounty. Lewis writes in 1837 that the parish of Ballinlough was the joint property of the Earls of Sandwich and Aldborough. In the 1870s the estate amounted to 3,844 acres.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Drombeg (H2346) A house located on the estate of the Earl of Sandwich at the time of Griffith's Valuation and occupied by John Mulcahy, when it was valued at £11. [Grid reference is approximate].	Drombeg	Glenogra	Croom	Crean 15	Smallcounty	Limerick	Lat/Lon: 52.48282 -8.63301 OSI Ref: R570 370 Discovery map #65. OS Sheet #31.

Archival sources

• Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Huntingdon : Plan of Drombeg estate, c 1843
• Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Huntingdon : Hinchingbrooke Collection, family & estate papers of the Montagu family, Earls of Sandwich, include mainly 18th century records of their Irish estates in Cos Limerick, Tipperary & Armagh & of the Fane & De Salis families, 1664-1947. HINCH
• Dorset History Centre: Estate Papers, 18th-19th centuries.
• National Archives, UK: Montagu Family, Earls of Sandwich, Co Limerick estate miscellaneous & legal papers 1800-1806, collection held privately, inquiries to Archives Sector Development, National Archives, Kew. NRA catalogue Ref. NRA 5472 Montagu
• National Library of Ireland: Lease by George Earl of Sandwich to Stephen Glison of lands of Boherigeela, Co Limerick, 3 Apr 1832. D 18,639
• Parliamentary Archives: An Act to enable the Right Hon John Earl of Sandwich & the Hon John Montagu, (Lord Viscount Hinchinbrook) & their survivors to grant leases of the Countess of Sandwich's moiety of estates in the Co Armagh & Limerick, 1772. HL/PO/PB/1/1772/12G3n157
• Public Record Office, Northern Ireland: Photocopies of correspondence, accounts, rental, map etc re sale of Irish estates of Earl of Sandwich, 1807-1851. T/3059
• Public Record Office, Northern Ireland: Downshire Papers, include letter from Lord Downshire, Hanover Square, to Brownrigg, Edenderry, re division of Co Limerick estate between De Salis & Lord Sandwich, 4 June 1800. D607/A/588

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Smallcounty, 35 (Drombeg)
• 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] : 404
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 115
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 153

Modern printed sources

• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 54-55
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical history of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison, 1883: 69
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 1009-1011