Estate: O'Connor

Associated Families

• O'Connor (Sligo)

Description

Peter O'Connor, a successful merchant in Sligo, acquired land in various parishes in the baronies of Tireragh and Tirerrill in the mid-19th century. He was the owner of over 4800 acres in county Sligo in the 1870s.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Toberpatrick (Skreen) (H167) Wilson, writing in 1786, refers to "Tubberpatrick" as the seat of Captain Jones. In 1837 Lewis recorded Tubberpatrick House as a seat of the Jones family. At the time of the estate sale in the Encumbered Estates court in April 1852, the house at Tubberpatrick was described as "a dwelling house fit for the reception of a gentleman, with offices and garden on the demesne". At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was the property of Peter O'Connor and was valued at £15. Toberpatrick House is still extant and occupied. In 2008 it was offered for sale through Knight Frank estate agents [Irish Times, 13 March 2008].	Toberpatrick	Skreen	Dromore West	Toberpatrick East 29	Tireragh	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.26442 -8.69836 OSI Ref: G545353 Discovery map #25. OS Sheet #13.
Ballyglass House (H1477) Ballyglass House was in the possession of the Rev. William Gillmor at the time of the sale of lands in November 1854. There were two substantial houses in Ballyglass townland at the time of Griffith's Valuation in 1856. One, valued at £16, was leased from John Wynne by Rev. Gillmor, while the second was being leased from him by James Duncan. McTernan notes that it was purchased from Gillmor by Peter O'Connor and used by members of that family up until the twentieth century. Slater records it as his seat in 1894. It is still extant and occupied.	Ballyglass	Calry	Sligo	Calry 54	Carbury	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.28097 -8.42532 OSI Ref: G723370 Discovery map #16. OS Sheet #15.
Cairnsfoot (H3413) McTernan indicates that Maj. De Bromhead is the reputed builder of Cairnsfoot, probably in the early decades of the nineteenth century, when he leased the lands from the Cooper estate. He had married Judith Wood in 1823. In the 1840s he returned to England and the house was let to a number of different families, notably the O'Connors. In 2004 it was partially destroyed by fire and subsequently demolished.	Abbeyquarter South	St. Johns	Sligo	Sligo East Urban	Carbury	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.26198 -8.45736 OSI Ref: G702349 Discovery map #25. OS Sheet #14.

Archival sources

• Sligo County Library: Estate of reps. of Peter O'Connor, 1900. Estates, Vol I.
• Sligo County Library: Map & indenture of property leased by Peter O'Connor from Vernon Davys, 1857.
• Sligo County Library: Map of estate of Peter O'Connor, 1851.
• Sligo County Library: Map of Toberpatrick & Finnure, 1853.
• Sligo County Library: Map & rental of Doonflin Upper, 1860.
• Sligo County Library: Map of O'Connor lands at Abbeyquarter, 1866.
• Sligo County Library: Map of O'Connor lands, Ballysumaghan, 1866.
• Sligo County Library: Map of Property in Sligo town, 1874.
• Sligo County Library: Rental of o'Connor estate, 1878-89, 1893-1905. . Robinson Collection.
• Sligo County Library: Rental of James O'Connor's estate, 1898-1902 & weekly rent book, 1902-04. Robinson Collection.
• Sligo County Library: Rental of Peter O'Connor's estate, 1849-64. Robinson Collection.
• Sligo County Library: Valuation of O'Connor estate, 1897. Robinson Collection.
• Sligo County Library: Papers relating to Sligo estate of Peter O'Connor, San Francisco, nephew of Peter O'Connor, Cairnsfoot, 1912-1919. F.C./D.5/130.
• Sligo County Library: Map of Peter O'Connor lands at Cleveragh & Knocknaganny, 1865. S.R.

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Dromore West Union 72
• 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] : 346
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 322
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Landowners the purchase of whose properties has been approved by Irish Land Commission. : (1889), 17.
• SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) : xxii, 33

Modern printed sources

• Corran Herald: WILSON, Martin. Cairnsfort House, the Skreen connection. XXXIX, (2006-2007), 9.
• McTERNAN, John C. Sligo: the light of bygone days, Vol.I Houses of Sligo and associated families. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. : 259-260 (Ballyglass), 472-473 (Toberpatrick)
• McTERNAN, John C. The light of bygone days, Volume II: Sligo families. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. : 267-268 (O'Connor Sligo)