Civil Survey Notes - Monroe

 

Monroe

The following are recorded in the Civil Survey for the area.

Lewes Walsh of Thurles Esqr.

Thomas O Hogan of Youghill Gent

Dermott O Bryen of Cleyduffe Gent

Donogh Bryen of Cleyduffe Gent.

Morogh O Hogan of the same Gent

The description gives us some very useful genealogical information namely that Lewes Walsh owned his share “by purchase in fee to him and his beiges from Margarett Bryen als Terrill & hir husband & More Brycn Spinster Sisters of Onora Wailsh all three being Daughters and coheires of Mortogh O Bryen of Castletowne and of the other third pte of the sd. three pTds in right of his wife Onora (as wee are informed).”

“A Castle and som thatch cabins, the ruins of an old Mill and a Brooke running in the meare of

the sd lands on the West” were also recorded. Part of the castle was still standing in the 1840s.

So this confirms that Lewes Walsh and Onora were married.

Previously we created this possible family tree.

Lewis Walsh m Onora Byren of Castletown

Likely Sons –Patrick Walsh of Pallas (HMR) – Edmond Walsh of Carrigatoher Esqr (HMR) – possibly James Walsh of Castletown (HMR)

For the Byrens

Father Murrough (Bishop of Killaloe) (of Onora)

Mortagh Bryen of Castletown married Onora Bryen

Daughters Margarett Bryen m Thomas Terrill / Tyrell – More Bryen (Spinster) – Onora Byren m Lewis Walsh of Thurles

Two women may have been decreed to be transplanted from this townland. O’Hart mentions it in his book - The Irish landed gentry when Cromwell came to Ireland.

Onor Walsh of Thurles and Slaney O’Bryen of Moncoe are listed after others from the Arra area. Neither of these are recorded in Simington’s Transplantation to Connacht so I’m not sure of where O’Harts original record for this originates. It may suggest perhaps that Lewis Walsh of Thurles was deceased at this stage. I’m not sure exactly who Slaney O’Bryen / Bryen. Onor Walsh (nee Bryen) has a sister Slaney O’Byren who was married to a Teige O’Brien of Thomond (he was the brother of Dermod O’Brien 5^th Baron of Inchiquin). (See O’Brien article in Annals of Arra – Vol 2, pg 79).

However by the time of the Hearth Money Rolls – Onnor Walsh is still recorded as resident in Monroe and her house has 2 Hearths / is the biggest recorded in the townland.

There are no O’Briens or Hogans recorded in the townland in the HMR. We also find no continuation of the Walsh, O’Brien or Hogan surnames in later records in the townland.

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