Estate: Ensor

Associated Families

• Ensor

Description

Charles Ensor, whose address is given as Rostrevor, county Down, is recorded as owning over 1000 acres in county Leitrim in the 1870s. Cottage Vale house in Drumdarkan townland, parish of Cloone was leased by him to George West. The West family had occupied that property from the early 19th century.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Cottage Vale (H484) At the time of Griffith's Valuation Charles Ensor was leasing a property valued at £10 at Drumdarkan, barony of Mohill, to George West. There is still an occupied house, part of a large farm, at this site.	Drumdarkan	Cloone	Mohill	Riverstown 66	Mohill	Leitrim	Lat/Lon: 53.95002 -7.80502 OSI Ref: H128001 Discovery map #34. OS Sheet #33.

Archival sources

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mohill Union, 84.
• 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] : 148
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 304

Modern printed sources

• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: I, 578