Estate: De Salis

Associated Families

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

Description

This family, of Swiss origin, settled in England at the beginning of the 18th century. In 1735 Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis, married Mary Fane, daughter of Charles Fane, created Viscount Fane and Baron of Loughgur, county Limerick in 1718. Following the death of her childless brother, the 2nd Viscount Fane, she inherited, with her sister Dorothy, Countess of Sandwich, the Irish estates of the Bourchier family which had passed to the Fanes (‘’Irish Family Records’’). Her grandson, Jerome, 4th Count de Salis of county Armagh and Middlesex took the additional name of Fane in 1809. Members of the De Salis family were soldiers and diplomats and were absentee landlords with regard to their county Limerick estate, which was in the barony of Smallcounty, in the parishes of Fedamore, Glenogra, Knockainy, Monasteranenagh and Tullabracky. Edward Walleford, Bolton Street, Picadilly, London, was the agent circa 1840.In the 1870s Count De Salis of Tandragee, county Armagh, owned over 4,000 acres in county Limerick and 3,663 acres in county Armagh.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Loughgur Castle (H2347) In 1786 Wilson refers to Lough-Gur as the seat of Henry Baylee. This house was ccupied by John "Boylie" in 1814 and by Miss Bailie in 1837. In the early 1850s William Evans was resident. He held the house valued at £11 from the Count De Salis. It was adjacent to the remains of a tower house known as Bouchier's Castle. The property at this site is labelled "Lough Gur Farm" on the 25-inch map of the 1890s. The book edited by Mary Carbery, "The Farm by Lough Gur", published in 1937, contains a description of the Baylee property at Loughgur. The original Bayley house is no longer extant.	Loughgur	Knockainy	Kilmallock	Knockainy 23	Smallcounty	Limerick	Lat/Lon: 52.51932 -8.52008 OSI Ref: R647 410 Discovery map #65. OS Sheet #32.
Grange Hill (H2348) Leet records Grange-Hill as the residence of Edward Croker in 1814. Edward John Croker was resident at the time of the first Ordnance Survey. It was a residence of the Count De Salis at the time Griffith's Valuation. The Count held it in fee and the buildings were valued at £27. The Count was still the occupier of Grange in 1906. Owned by Colonel and Mrs Galloway in 1942. The house is now known as Loughgur.	Grange	Monasteranenagh	Kilmallock	Grange 19	Smallcounty	Limerick	Lat/Lon: 52.52194 -8.53632 OSI Ref: R636 413 Discovery map #65. OS Sheet #32.

Archival sources

• 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
• Limerick City Museum: Rent book, recording rents for land in Grange paid by John Purcell then later by his widow for the period 1862-1887. LM2007.0092
• Limerick Studies Department, Dooradoyle: Irish Tourist Association Survey file for parish of Bruff, barony of Small County, 1944. Limerick North East 6
• National Library of Ireland: Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Gleeson, 4 Nov 1862, Vol 66 (63), MRGS 39/033, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• Oxford University: Bodleian Library: Family & estate papers, including Fane, 18th-20th centuries.
• Parliamentary Archives: An Act for authorizing the persons therein named to concur on the part of Peter de Salis Esq, & the other persons entitled under the Settlement executed by Jerome de Salis Esq & Mary his wife & the will of the said Mary de Salis, in making a partition of certain estates late of the Right Hon Susanna Viscountess Fane, situate in the Cos of Armagh, Limerick and Tipperary,1802. HL/PO/PB/1/1802/42G3n277
• 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

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. : Barony of Smallcounty, 80 (Loughgur), 88 (Grange)
• BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.128
• 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] : 125
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 275 (Loughgur), 209 (Grange Hill)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 27 (Loughgur)
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, county Limerick: III, 157
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 263
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 148

Modern printed sources

• Jnl. of the Lough Gur and District Historical Society: MCNAMARA, Tom. The De Salis Estate [from The Limerick Leader, 7 June 1893]. X (1998), 19-20
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical history of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison, 1883: 195
• CARBERY, Mary (ed). The farm by Lough Gur: the story of Mary Fogarty (Sissy O'Brien). London: 1937. : pp.112-118
• GALLAGHER, Mary & HOURIGAN, Tommy (eds). Grange: past and present. (Grange, county Limerick: Grange Cross Residents' Association, 2015). : pp.297, 307-317.
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 1009-1011