Estate: Wood

Associated Families

• Martin
• Wood
• Digby
• Bromhead

Description

The Wood family had held property in Sligo since at least the early 17th century, probably through Thomas Wood, Constable of Ballymote Castle in 1592. A family member is alleged to have perished in the Rebellion of 1641. Some of the family property in Corran barony became part of the Bromhead estate in the 19th century when Judith Wood married Sir Gonville Bromhead of Thurlby Hall, Lincolnshire. Other parts of the property were inherited by the Digby family though the marriage of Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Wood, to William Digby, dean of Clonfert, in later eighteenth century. The family bacame united with the Martins, another influential Sligo family, though the inheritence of the Martin's Cleveragh estate by Mrs. Anne Wood, nee Martin.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Woodville (H60) Woodville House is still extant and occupied by the Wood family who operate an open farm there. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, it was being leased by Alicia Martin from Capt. James Wood and was valued at £42.	Ballydoogan	St. John's	Sligo	Kilmacowen 59	Carbury	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.26805 -8.51422 OSI Ref: G665356 Discovery map #25. OS Sheet #14.
Wynnesfort House (H1462) In 1906 Alexander Lyons owned a property valued at £8 at Rahaberna, barony of Carbury. At the time of Griffith's Valuation this property was leased from the Lyons estate by George Robinson. McTernan states that the lands passed from the Knox to the Wynne estate in the late eighteenth century. In the early nineteenth century William C. Wood of Rathellen had possession and the house was let to a succession of tenants. It was sold in the Encumbered Estates court in 1853 when the purchaser was Henry Lyons.	Rahaberna	Drumcliff	Sligo	Drumcliff East	Carbury	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.30689 -8.46247 OSI Ref: G699399 Discovery map #16. OS Sheet #8.
Rathellen (H3459) McTernan writes that Rathellen was built at the beginning of the nineteenth century as a dower house for the Wood of Woodville estate.. It was purchased by Henry Lyons in 1860 and remained in the Lyons family until the 1940s. It is still extant but unoccupied.	Finisklin	St. John	Sligo	Knockaree	Carbury	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.27888 -8.50207 OSI Ref: G673368 Discovery map #25. OS Sheet #14.
Finisklin House or Seamount (H3726) Built as a seaside residence of the Wood family though frequently leased by them to various other families. In the mid nineteenth century it was the residence of Thomas Mostyn Wood and valued at £11. In the 1870s, McTernan notes that it passed to the land agent Richard St. George Robinson, in whose family it remained until the early twentieth century. It is still extant and has been restored.	Finisklin	St. John	Sligo	Knockaree	Carbury	Sligo	Lat/Lon: 54.28067 -8.50363 OSI Ref: G672370 Discovery map #25. OS Sheet #14.

Archival sources

• National Archives of Ireland: Joyce, Mackie & Lougheed, auctioneers' collection, includes a sale rental for the lands of Tissan and Rathaberny, both called Wynnesfort and Carrowkeel, in the Court of Chancery, 4 May 1853. Co 3498
• National Library of Ireland: GO MSS 109. Copy of confirmation of Arms to Mrs Anne Wood on her assuming surname Wood-Martin. 1874.
• National Library of Ireland: GO MSS 180. Pedigree of Wood of Lackan, Caranduff, Oldrock, Leckfield, Woodville & Cleveragh, county Sligo, 1602-1883.
• Sligo County Library: Rentals of Wood estate, 1864-70, Robinson Collection
• Sligo County Library: Map of lands at Maugheraboy, estate of Wm. C. Wood, 1826.
• Sligo County Library: Map of Woodville demesne, estate of James Wood, c.1860.
• Sligo County Library: Map of properties adjacent to Garavogue river, estate of W.G. Wood-Martin, 1879.
• Sligo County Library: Map of property at Maugheraboy including plans for proposed cottages, estate of W.G. Wood-Martin, 1897.
• Sligo County Library: Rentals of the Wood estates, 1866-70. Robinson Collection.

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, 88 (Finisklin), 89 (Ballydoogan), 482-483 (Woodville),
• BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.301
• 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] : 482
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Sligo: Vol II, 313, 328
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 324

Modern printed sources

• The Irish Genealogist: JEFFERY, Lilian M. An account of the family of Wood, Co. Sligo and their descendants. III, 8 (1963), 300-310. Addendum. III, 9 (1964), 364-365.
• McTERNAN, John C. Sligo: the light of bygone days, Vol.I Houses of Sligo and associated families. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. : 169-170 (Rathellen), 484-485 (Wynnesfort)