Estate: Lynch Blosse

Associated Families

• Lynch Blosse
• Lynch/Crean Lynch
• Lynch (Partry)
• Moore (Brees)

Description

A Galway family who lost most of their estates in that county under Cromwell but received extensive grants of land in the barony of Carra, county Mayo under the Restoration Settlement, most of which they managed to retain despite supporting the Jacobite cause. Their estate was mainly in the parishes of Ballintober and Ballyovey in the barony of Carra and in the parishes of Mayo, Kilcolman and Balla in the barony of Clanmorris. The lands in the barony of Clanmorris were previously part of the estate of the Moores of Brize, which Sir Henry Lynch claimed by his marriage in 1722 to Mary Moore. His claim was settled by a decree of the House of Lords in 1744. Through their connection with the Moores the Lynch Blosses also held a half share in substantial estates in the barony of Athlone, County Roscommon and the barony of Garrycastle, King's County (Offaly) which were advertised for sale in October 1852. In the early 18th century the Lynch Blosses had a house at Corrandulla in the parish of Annaghdown, barony of Clare, county Galway. By the mid 18th century they were living at Castlecarra although they retained the house at Corrandulla until the early 19th century. In 1876 the Lynch Blosse estate amounted to 17,555 acres. The Congested Districts' Board purchased the Lynch Blosse estate of 18,566 acres in 1909 for £154,000. The Irish Tourist Association File makes reference to the account of S. Nicholson's survey of the estate in 1844 being in the library of the Archbishop of Tuam. The maps of the Lynch Blosse estate may be viewed on line at http://www.mayolibrary.ie/en/LocalStudies/MayoMapsOnline/

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Athavallie (H69) The house at Moat was the main residence of the Lynch Blosses in the 18th and the early 19th century. In 1786 Wilson refers to Moat, the seat of Sir Henry L. Blosse. A fire destroyed the original house in 1808. It was rebuilt and is marked on the first Ordnance Survey map as Attavally. The Lynch Blosse family were absentee landlords for most of the 19th century. In 1894 the house was recorded as the seat of Sir Henry Lynch-Blosse. Later the house became a community school run by the St Louis nuns. It is now known as Balla Secondary Schoool.	Moat	Balla	Castlebar	Balla 56	Clanmorris	Mayo	Lat/Lon: 53.80640 -9.13857 OSI Ref: M250 847 Discovery map #31. OS Sheet #90.
Castlecarra (H70) Granted to Sir Henry Lynch after the Restoration, it was the family's main home in county Mayo for much of the 18th century. In 1786 Wilson refers to Castle Carra as the seat of Mr. Lynch. The mansion house and offices at Castlecarra were described in 1844 by Samuel Nicholson as "now almost ruins". Castlecarra was leased to the Brownes of Castlecarra at this time and was part of their property for sale in 1852. The ruins of the original tower house are still extant but much of the surroundings are now covered by forestry.	Castlecarra	Burriscarra	Ballinrobe	Burriscarra 35	Carra	Mayo	Lat/Lon: 53.72167 -9.25446 OSI Ref: M172 754 Discovery map #38. OS Sheet #100.
Farmhill/Carradoyne (H436) In 1786, Wilson refers to Farmhill as the seat of Mr. Vesey. Dean Arbuthnot, who lived in the house in 1814, was rector of the parishes of Crossboyne and Kilcolman and a brother of Sir Robert Arbuthnot. The Gonne Bells were recorded as resident in Lewis and the Ordnance Survey Name Books. The house appears to have been known as Farmhill during the Vesey/Arbuthnot/Gonne Bell ownership and thereafter as Carradoyne House. It was occupied by Thomas Elwood in 1845 and by Lady Lynch Blosse at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. By the 1860s it was the home of the Sheffields. It was occupied by Katherine Tynan and her husband, Henry Albert Hinckson, during World War I. Carradoyne House is still extant and occupied.	Farmhill	Crossboyne	Claremorris	Garrymore 79	Clanmorris	Mayo	Lat/Lon: 53.69692 -9.02205 OSI Ref: M325 724 Discovery map #39. OS Sheet #111.
Rockstown (H4838) Marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map this house was occupied by William Nally at the time of Griffith's Valuation and held from the Lynch Blosses. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage notes its connections with P.W. Nally, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and a well-known late nineteenth century athlete influential in the founding of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The house is now a ruin.	Ballymacloughlin	Balla	Castlebar	Balla 56	Clanmorris	Mayo	Lat/Lon: 53.81109 -9.11744 OSI Ref: M264 852 Discovery map #31. OS Sheet #90.

Archival sources

• Irish Architectural Archive: Lynch Blosse, photograph 2003. 121/010
• King's Inn Library: Sir Robert and Francis Lynch Blosse v John [Bingham] Lord Clanmorris re lands in barony of Carra, Feb 1821. House of Lords Appeals Vol 4a
• King's Inn Library: Garrett Moore v Sir Henry Lynch and others re estate of John Moore of Brees, who died 1635, includes Moore family pedigree, Mar 1744. House of Lords Appeals, Vol 4a
• Mayo County Library: Irish Tourist Association. Topographical and General Survey, 1941-1945. Parish of Balla & Manulla. ITA/3/4
• Mayo County Library: Maps of the estate of Sir Robert Lynch Blosse in the barony of Clanmorris, 38 maps produced by Sherrard, Brassington & Greene, 1811
• Mayo County Library: Maps of the estate of Sir Francis Lynch Blosse in the barony of Carra, 46 maps produced by Clarges Greene, Dublin, 1830
• Mayo County Library: Miscellaneous maps of the estate of Sir Robert Lynch Blosse, 15 maps, 1856-1858
• Mayo County Library: Copies of 39 maps of the estate of Garret Moore, surveyed in 1720-1721, associated with a court case between Sir Francis Lynch Blosse v Garret O'Moore, concluded in 1744, includes land in Co Offaly
• National Archives of Ireland: Solicitor's Papers containing Encumbered Estates Rentals relating to sale of the Lynch Blosse estate in the Barony of Garrycastle, Co Offaly 1855 & 1858 and lease of Carrownacon and Lawarreenn, barony of Carra, Co Mayo from Sir Robert Lynch Blosse to Charles Joseph Blake, 25 June 1883. 1152/2
• National Archives of Ireland: Crown and Peace Records, Register of Trees, Co Mayo 1775-1919. ID/51/62, pp.2, 142
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), O'Moore, Vol 18 (33), 8 Oct 1852, MRGS39/08, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Library of Ireland: Photostat copy of a survey of estates of Sir R. Lynch Blosse in Co Mayo by Clarges & Green, 47 maps with tables of reference, 1830. MS 2706
• National Library of Ireland: Photostat copy of a survey of estates of Sir R. Lynch Blosse in Co Mayo by Sherrard, Brassington and Green, 38 maps with tables of reference, 1811. MS 2713
• National Library of Ireland: Photostat copy of a report of estates of Sir Robert Lynch Blosse lying in baronies of Carra and Clanmorris by Samuel Nicholson, (original in Tuam Diocesan Archive), 452 pages of letterpress, 1844. MS 2725
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Lynch afterwards Lynch Blosse of Castlecarra, Clogher, Co Mayo and of Cadiz in Spain, 1250-c 1812. GO MS 170, 135-139
• National Library of Ireland: Photostat of survey of estate of Garet Moore, 29 maps of South Mayo 1720-1721, with reference to legal action by Sir F. Lynch Blosse in 1837. MS 2707
• National Library of Ireland: Clanrickard Papers includes correspondence of Sir Henry Lynch re estate and business matters, 17th century. MS 3111
• National Library of Ireland: Exchequer Bill, Lynch of Castlecarra v Browne of Annaghmore (Corskeagh, Killmeen and Creagduff), 1777. MS 15,066
• Private Possession: Lynch Blosse papers, in the possession of Mrs R.A. Milne, Pengwern House, Oakley St, Shrewsbury in 1980, see Analecta Hibernica.
• Tuam Diocesan Archives, Tuam: Survey and Report of Samuel Nicholson on the estate of Sir Robert Lynch Blosse in the baronies of Clanmorris and Carra, April 1844. P45/09/14
• West Glamorgan Archives Service: Lynch Blosse Papers, deeds relating to the South Wales estates and to the succession of the baronetcy, 1892-1977. D/D SB 18

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. : Castlebar Union, 132
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Clanmorris Barony, 132 (Ballymacloughlin)
• BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.45
• 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] : 284
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 98 (Castlecarrow)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol I, 102
• M'PARLAN, James. Statistical survey of the county of Mayo. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1802: 103
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Mayo: Vol I, 426 & 430
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 18th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland, [Cd 4927] HC 1909, xvi. Appendix XXXII: 142
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 361 (Moat)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland, 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 251
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 307
• SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) : xxi, 19
• 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: 216 (Castlecarra) & 218 (Corrandulla)
• WILSON, William. The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 115 (Moat), 397 (Castle Carra), 398 (Corrindulla)

Modern printed sources

• Analecta Hibernica: NICHOLLS, K.W. Lynch Blosse Papers. XXIX (1980), 115-218
• Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society: BLAKE, Martin J. Notes on the Place Names mentioned in Browne's Map of Mayo 1584. VI (1909-1910), 238-244
• Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society: BLAKE, Martin J. Notes on the Place Names mentioned in Browne’s map of Mayo 1584. VIII (1913-1914), 39-55
• Jnl. of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society: MCNULTY, Paul. The Genealogy of the Anglo-Norman Lynches who settled in Galway. LXII (2010), 30-50
• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 14
• DUGGAN, Martin. Carrowbeg (Some Local History). Unpublished booklet, 1996. (Copy in Mayo County Library): All
• LYNCH-ROBINSON, Sir Christopher. The Last of the Irish R.M.s. London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1951: All
• MOSLEY, Charles (ed). Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999: II, 1786-1788