Ads
related to: county clare ireland genealogy search websites list
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This page was last edited on 13 September 2022, at 12:48 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Civil parishes in Ireland are based on the medieval Christian parishes, adapted by the English administration and by the Church of Ireland. [1] The parishes, their division into townlands and their grouping into baronies, were recorded in the Down Survey undertaken in 1656–58 by surveyors under William Petty.
This page was last edited on 17 January 2024, at 18:17 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Within the 1669 Census of Ireland, the surnames Gormon and Gorman are listed as principal names for two baronies within County Clare: 9 Gormons are recorded in the Islands barony which consisted of 1651 people; [11] and 6 Gormans are recorded in the barony of Moyferta, which consisted of 1024 people. [12]
This page was last edited on 18 October 2023, at 22:33 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
In 1762, he was ennobled as The 1st Baron Clive, of Plassey in the County of Clare, in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1764, Lord Clive was appointed a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath (K.B.). Clive had bought this country estate in County Clare around 1760 from a Dublin banker called Henry Mitchell.