Estate: Ormsby (Cummeen)

Associated Families

• Ormsby (Cummeen)

Description

Thomas Ormsby acquired land in Sligo in the mid-17th century and the family expanded to hold property in several parts of Counties Sligo and Mayo in the next 200 years. They are listed as holding land in Drumclyffe in the Census of 1659. From the later 18th century the estate at Cumeen was frequently absentee and the house rented to a variety of tenants. Lands in trustee for Dorothea Ormsby were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in December 1859 by Richard Newcomen. In 1861 a portion of the estate at Lissavally, barony of Carbury was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. The lands were sold to the Irwins under the Land Acts and the house demolished in the 1940s.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Cummeen (also spelt Cummin) (H51) The Ormsby family had a house at Cummeen, Coolera in the eighteenth century. Wilson noted it as the residence of John Ormsby in 1786, when he describes it as "a magniificent and beautiful seat". At the time of Griffith's Valuation the representatives of Charles Ormsby were leasing the house and land at Cumeen to William Phibbs who in turn leased the house to Alexander Wylie. It was valued at £13. Some building remains and a possible folly are still visible at the site.	Cummeen	Killaspugbrone	Sligo	Knockaree 60	Carbury	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.27430 -8.52197 OSI Ref: G660363 Discovery map #16. OS Sheet #14.

Archival sources

• National Archives of Ireland: Deeds, rentals, correspondence & accounts re the Crofton, Irwin, Dodwell & Gethin families & property in Cos Sligo & Roscommon, including reference to the Ormsbys of Cummin, 1615-1828. Small Accs. Index 71
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Ormsby, 21 February 1861, Vol 61 MRGS 39/031, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Ormsby & Newcomen, 9 December 1859, Vol 57, MRGS 39/028, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• Sligo County Library: Abstract of title to Cummin estate, 1666-1840. F.C./D.2/73.
• Sligo County Library: Timber book, Cummin estate, 1889-98, 1913-14. Robinson Collection.

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Sligo Union, 102.
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 145
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 132
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Sligo: Vol II, 5-6
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland, 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 105
• 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: 224
• WILSON, William. The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 105 & 395(Cuming)

Modern printed sources

• Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica: FULLER, J. F. Pedigree of the Family of Ormsby, formerly of Ormsby in Lincolnshire, now of Ireland. 2nd Series, Vol II
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 931-935.
• McTERNAN, John C. At the Foot of Knocknarea: a chronicle of Coolera in bygone days. Sligo: Avena Publications, 1990. : 50-52
• McTERNAN, John C. Sligo: the light of bygone days, Vol.I Houses of Sligo and associated families. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. : 74-75
• TIMONEY, Martin A (ed). Dedicated to Sligo: thirty-four essays on Sligo's past. Sligo: Publishing Sligo's past, 2013. : Timoney, Martin A. "Hints towards a natural and topographical history of the county of Sligoe" by the Rev. William Henry, 1739", p.150. [Cuming]