Estate: Walsh (Walsh Park)

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Description

John Adams Walsh had a son, Charles Walsh of Walsh Park, county Tipperary, who married Sarah Simpson and had a son, John. The estate of Charles Walsh at Derrylaghan was worth £1,000 in the 1770s (Kilboy Papers). In 1795 John Walsh married Eliza, daughter of Jonathan Willington of Rapla, county Tipperary. The representatives of their son, Jonathan Walsh, held land in the parishes of Dorrha and Lorrha, barony of Lower Ormond, in the mid 19th century. The estate of John Adams Walsh of Walsh Park in county Tipperary amounting to 1,323 acres was advertised for sale in April 1857 and houses and premises in the town of Burrisokane in April 1858. The Freeman's Journal reported that the latter were purchased in trust by Reverend Mr. Lloyd. The estate was bought by the Heads who built Derrylahan Park in the townland of Walshpark in 1862.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Walsh Park (H4439) The home of the Walsh family in the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries. Taylor and Skinner record Walsh Esq as resident at Derrylaghan [Walshpark]. The Ordnance Survey Name Books refer to the demesne as having plantations and ornamental grounds and to the house as "a good dwelling house, the residence of Jonathan Walsh" in 1840. . In the mid 19th century it was occupied by the representatives of Jonathan Walsh who held the property in fee. The house was valued at £33. This house was demolished by the early 20th century.	Walshpark	Dorrha	Birr	Graigue 3	Lower Ormond	Tipperary	Lat/Lon: 53.09562 -8.00149 OSI Ref: M999 050 Discovery map #53. OS Sheet #5.
Curraghglass (H4487) J.W. Walsh is noted as the proprietor of Curraghglass in the Ordnance Survey Name Books of 1841. In the mid 19th century Thomas Meara occupied a house valued at £11 and held from the representatives of Jonathan Walsh. There is still a building located at this site.	Curraghglass	Lorrha	Borrisokane	Lorrha East 17	Lower Ormond	Tipperary	Lat/Lon: 53.09829 -8.08660 OSI Ref: M942 053 Discovery map #53. OS Sheet #4.

Archival sources

• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Walsh, 24 April 1857, Vol 44 (55), MRGS 39/021, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Walsh, 16 Apr 1858, Vol 51 (7), MRGS 39/025, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• Tipperary Studies Research Library (Archives), Thurles: Walsh Papers, genealogical papers & Encumbered Estates' Court Sale Rental, 24 Apr 1857. TL/F/7

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Lower Ormond, 50 (Walshpark), 85 (Curraghglass)
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 385 (Walsh-park)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 481 (Walsh Park)
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Tipperary: Vol.II, Parish of Dorrha, p.185, 205. Vol.VI, Parish of Lorrha, p.242.
• TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 197 (Derrylaghan)

Modern printed sources

• Analecta Hibernica: SADLEIR, Thomas U. Manuscripts at Kilboy, Co Tipperary, in the possession of the Lord Dunalley. XII, (1943), 131-151
• Freeman's Journal: Encumbered Estates Court sale reports, 17 April 1858, p.4.
• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 102 (Derrylahan Park)
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. London: Colburn & Co, 1852: 1506-1507