Source: NUI Galway - Landed Estates, Galway.
ESTATE: MAHON (NORTHAMPTON)
Associated Families
Mahon (Northampton)
O'Connell (Kilgory)
Description
The Northampton estate was owned by the Mahon family who built Northampton House. Portions of the estate were offered for sale in the Encumbered estates courts in 1851. The portion including the house was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in June 1865. It was purchased by Mr. Murray for over £1100. The OS Name Books record James Mahon of Northampton as a middleman for the estate of Arthur Alexander of Gort on lands in the parish of Ardrahan in the 1830s.
About the House: Northampton (H604)
The townland of Poulnaveigh otherwise Northampton, containing Northampton House, "of modern construction", was offered for sale in the Encumbered estates court in June, 1865. In 1894 Slater refers to Northampton as the residence of Captain Harry de Vere Pery a son of the second Earl of Limerick. In 1906 it was the property of James Brady-Murray and was valued at £31. Northampton House is no longer extant having been demolished in the 1930s.
http://www.northamptonns.com/index.php/eng/content/view/full/131Archival sources
National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Mahon, Kinvara, 26 June 1851, Vol 8, MRGS 3 (microfilm copy in NUIG)
National Archives of Ireland: Marriage settlement June G. Mahon of Northampton & Daniel O'Grady of Shorepark, Co Clare, re lands in Co Clare, 22 Sept 1841. 999/404/2/4
Contemporary printed sources
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GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Gort Union, 87.
LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 234.
ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Galway,
http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/default.html: Ardrahan Parish
Modern printed sources
Irish Times: Landed Estates Court sales, 28 June 1865, p.4
O'CONNELL, J.W. Kinvara History, a family affair. Kinvara, county Galway: Kinvara Community Council, 1988. : 23
SPELLISSY, Séan. The History of Galway. Limerick: Celtic Bookshop, 1999. : 359
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