Estate: O'Grady/Grady (The Grange)

Associated Families

• Croker (Ballynagarde)
• O'Grady (The Grange)

Description

The O'Gradys of The Grange, parish of Fedamore, county Limerick, were a branch of O'Gradys of Kilballyowen. They intermarried with the Morony and Croker families. Henry O'Grady held an estate in the parishes of Fedamore and Knockainy, barony of Smallcounty, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He died in 1853 and was succeeded by his brother Thomas who was succeeded by his nephew Edward Croker (Ballynagarde family) in 1861. Edward Croker died unmarried in 1896 and his sister Lady Dyer and Caroline Croker inherited The Grange.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
The Grange (H2354) The home of the Grady/O'Grady family in the 18th and 19th century. In 1786 Wilson describes it as "the beautiful and well-improved seat of Standish O'Grady". It was inherited by the Crokers in 1861. Occupied by Standish [O'] Grady in 1814 and Henry O'Grady in 1837 and at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The buildings were valued at £77 and the property was held in fee. In 1894 it was noted by Slater as the seat of Captain Edward Croker. This house was described as in very good repair even though it had not been occupied for a number of years preceding the Irish Tourist Association survey of 1942. The house is now a ruin.	Skool	Fedamore	Limerick	Ballybricken 48	Smallcounty	Limerick	Lat/Lon: 52.54345 -8.54838 OSI Ref: R628 437 Discovery map #65. OS Sheet #23.

Archival sources

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Smallcounty, 30
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 208
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 615
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, county Limerick: III, 161 (Grange)
• WILSON, William. The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 358 (Grange)

Modern printed sources

• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 146
• BLAKE, Tarquin. Abandoned mansions of Ireland. Cork: Collins Press, 2010.: 210-217 (The Grange)
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 122
• CUSSEN, Robert. Caleb Powell, High Sheriff of County Limerick, 1858, sums up his Grand Jury. In RYNNE, Etienne (ed). North Munster Studies: Essays in commemoration of Monsignor Michael Moloney. Limerick: The Thomond Archaeological Society, 1967. : 404-406
• GALLAGHER, Mary & HOURIGAN, Tommy (eds). Grange: past and present. (Grange, county Limerick: Grange Cross Residents' Association, 2015). : pp.371-374.
• GLIN, Knight of, GRIFFIN, D. J. & ROBINSON, N.K (eds). Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive/Irish Georgian Society, 1989. : 101 (The Grange)