Estate: Fane

Associated Families

• Montagu (Earl of Sandwich)
• De Salis
• Bouchier/Bourchier (Baggotstown)
• Fane (Viscount Fane)

Description

The Fane family held an estate in the barony of Smallcounty, county Limerick in the first half of the 18th century, formerly belonging to the Bourchier family. Charles Fane of Bassilden, Berkshire, was created Viscount Fane and Baron of Loughgur in 1718. His son Charles 2nd Viscount died childless in 1766 and his estates passed to the families of the 2nd Viscount's sisters who were married to the Count de Salis and the Earl of Sandwich.

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.

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
• Parliamentary Archives: An Act for Sale of the Inheritance of part of the settled Estate of Charles Lord Viscount Fane in the County of Devon & in Co Limerick, for discharging debts & incumbrances, 1748. HL/PO/PB/1/1748/22G2n65
• 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

Contemporary printed sources

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• PRIOR, Thomas. A list of the Absentees of Ireland, and the yearly value of their estates and incomes spent abroad. 1730: 5

Modern printed sources

• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical history of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison, 1883: 195

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