Estate: Lynch (Carrowbeg North)

Associated Families

• Lynch (Carrowbeg)
• Bodkin (Carrowbeg & Thomastown)

Description

The Lynchs owned an estate of 337 acres at Carrowbeg North, parish of Belclare, barony of Clare, county Galway, in the mid 19th century and Charles Lynch is recorded as still resident there in a parliamentary return dated 1906. He had actually died in late December 1905 as reported in the ''Galway Express'' of 30 December 1905. Captain Charles Lynch of the East York Militia married twice. His first wife was Belinda O'Conor Donelan who died in 1862 and his second wife was a French of Pollnahallia, parish of Donaghpatrick, county Galway. He was succeeded by his son Major Dominick Lynch who sold the estate to the Hoade family in the late 1940s. Melvin writes that members of the family of Lynch of Shannonbridge were army officers and that they married into the Bodkins of Carrowbeg so it is presumed that this property came into Lynch possession through the Bodkin marriage. McNulty also traces a Lynch Bodkin link. Marie, daughter of Captain Stephen Lynch of Berwick's regiment in France married Oliver Bodkin of Carrowbane, Tuam, county Galway, one of the Bodkin murder victims. Another victim was Marcus Lynch, a merchant from Galway, who may have been a relative of Maries. She died in 1730.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Carrowbeg House (H759) A former Bodkin house, the home of the Lynch family in the second half of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century. It was held in fee by Dominick Lynch at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £8. It is still extant and in use.	Carrowbeg North	Belclare	Tuam	Claretuam 209	Clare	Galway	Lat/Lon: 53.49893 -8.94946 OSI Ref: M370 503 Discovery map #39. OS Sheet #43.

Archival sources

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Tuam Union, 9
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 94 (Bodkin-Summerville) & 352 (Shannonbridge-Lynch)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 338
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 297

Modern printed sources

• 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
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 153-154 (Donelan)
• MELVIN, Patrick. The Galway Tribes as Landowners and Gentry. In MORAN, Gerard (ed). Galway: History & Society. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1996 : 319-374