![]() It was before the days of Gregory the Great and clerical celibacy. In those days you could be a Bishop, and a Saint and still have children. They started us off with Saint Anselm who was Bishop of Metz in the Fifth century A.D. In the old days when the Earls of Clanricarde were rich and important, the genealogical writers were apt to exaggerate the family antiquity. The Burke Family - A History by Sir William Burke Teeling, July, 1932 Landed Estates Court sale reports, 25 November 1868, p.4.The Burke Family - A History Wild Geese Heritage Museum and Library ''History & Folklore of the Barony of Clare (Co Galway)''. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 :īURKE, Sir Bernard. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland''. ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Galway, : ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. ''Statistical and agricultural survey of the county of Galway''. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion.'', HC 1906, c, 177: James Hardiman Library, University of Galway O'Conor Donelan Archive: Correspondence with members of the Burke family of Ower. Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Turner, Henry & Burke,, Vol 126 (32), MRGS 39/057, (microfilm copy in NUIG) National Archives of Ireland Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (Dunboyne), Turner, Henry & Burke,, Vol 20, 153- James Hardiman Library, University of Galway ![]() Kirwan and Sons, land agents, Tuam, mid 19th - mid 20th centuries, including account book of rents received, 1909-1921. GSO1/9 Galway County Council ArchivesĮstate records of Denis J. Lynch of Galway and Doorus, copy marriage settlement and conveyance with Burkes of Ower, 1785 & 1804. GO MS 111a: 80 National Library of Ireland GO MS 180: 244-247 National Library of IrelandĬopy of confirmation of arms to the descendants of Charles Hamilton Teeling. GO MS 169: 175-229 National Library of IrelandĬopy of a series of deeds of lands of John Burke of Castlehackett, later Burke of Ower and of Andrew Browne of Liskelline and of Ower, 1657. Pedigree of Burke families in Co Galway, including Burke of Castlehackett, Ower, Derrymaclaghny etc, 814-1911. ![]() Map of Owermore, Owerbeg & Cahermacanally, Co Galway the estate of William Burke, surveyed by J. Teeling Papers, include family and estate papers relating to the Burkes of Ower, 17th-20th centuries. MS 20,745-20,746 National Library of Ireland Burke and his wife in baronies of Clare, Co Galway and Kilmaine, Co Mayo, 1895-1900, including Landed Estates' Court rental of Moyne, 1868. Teeling Papers, rentals and accounts of estate of W.J. Burke family members included the mathematician Francis Burke, the scientist John Benjamin Butler Burke and the author Oliver Burke. In December 1876 the sale of the estate (288 acres) of members of the Turner family, William Joseph Burke and Robert Henry in the barony of Bunratty Upper, county Clare, was advertised. Property at Moyne in the barony of Kilmaine, belonging to this family was sold in the Landed Estates Court in November 1868, It was bought by Oliver J. William Joseph Burke had married Barbara Ellen Turner, daughter of Thomas Blake Turner MD, of St John's Abbey, Tuam, county Galway. The male line died out with his death in 1895 but he was succeeded by his daughter, Margaret Mary, who married Luke Alexander Teeling. In the 1870s William Joseph Burke owned 666 acres in county Galway and 752 acres in county Mayo. They also held some land just across the county border at Moyne in the parish of Shrule, barony of Kilmaine, county Mayo. The Burkes managed to retain Ower in the parish of Killursa and continued to reside there until the early 20th century. By the 16th century they owned a large estate in the Castlehacket and Cahermorris localities in the barony of Clare, county Galway, most of which was confiscated in the 17th century. The Burkes of Ower were descended from a younger son of the Burkes of Clanricarde in the 15th century. ![]()
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