Estate: Barrett (Culleenamore)

Associated Families

• Barrett (Culleenamore)

Description

The Barrett family were descended from prosperous Sligo merchants in the later 17th and early 18th centuries. They leased land from the Nicholson family of Primrose Grange in the later 18th century. They later purchased land in the area from the Gethin family. The estate was centred on Culleenamore House. In the 1870s Samuel Barrett was recorded as the owner of over 700 acres in county Sligo. Some of the estate was sold in 1909 and the remainder including the house, in the 1950s. The original house was demolished and a modern house built on the site.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Culleenamore (H49) At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Samuel Barrett was leasing the house at Culleenamore, barony of Carbury, from Edward Nicholson, when it was valued at £16.	Culleenamore	Killaspugbrone	Sligo	Knockaree 60	Carbury	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.25777 -8.59850 OSI Ref: G610345 Discovery map #25. OS Sheet #13.
Rockville (Carbury) (H1583) Edward Homan was leasing two properties, both valued at over £4 and described as Bathing Lodges, at Culleenamore, from Samuel Barrett, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. One house is noted on the OS 1st edition sheet as Rockville and the second as Bocage.	Culleenamore	Killaspugbrone	Sligo	Knocknarea 60	Carbury	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.25332 -8.59076 OSI Ref: G615340 Discovery map #25. OS Sheet #14.
Rathanna (H3457) Col. Knox Barrett held this property from Jane Mullin at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £20. It remained in the Barret family until the early 1900s when it was sold to the Monahan family who owned it until the 1960s. McTernan writes that it was sold to the Jurys Hotel Group who built the Sligo Park Hotel in front of the original house which was demolished in the 1980s.	Cornageeha	St. John	Sligo	Sligo Urban 61	Carbury	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.25204 -8.47259 OSI Ref: G692338 Discovery map #25. OS Sheet #14.

Archival sources

• Sligo County Library: Documents relating to Barrett and Nuttall estate F.C/D.4/20, F.C./D.3/3
• Sligo County Library: Rentals of Barrett estate, 1888-90. Robinson Collection.
• Sligo County Library: Map of lands at Culleenamore, let by Wm. Barrett to Letitia Begley, 1817. S.R.

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. : Sligo Union, 100 (Culleenamore), 159 (Cornageeha)
• 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] : 20
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 144
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 132
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Sligo: Vol II, 18
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland, 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 265
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of names of proprietors and area and valuation of properties in counties in Ireland, held in fee or perpetuity or long leases at chief rents, 1876. (412) LXXX. 395: 167.
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 320

Modern printed sources

• McTERNAN, John C. At the Foot of Knocknarea: a chronicle of Coolera in bygone days. Sligo: Avena Publications, 1990. : 43-44
• McTERNAN, John C. Sligo: the light of bygone days, Vol.I Houses of Sligo and associated families. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. : 167-168 (Rathanna)
• McTERNAN, John C. The light of bygone days, Volume II: Sligo families. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. : 18-21