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Title: Loftus
Post by: rymer on Wednesday 09 June 10 14:32 BST (UK)

Looking for info on the Loftus family who lived at Loftus hall on the Hook peninsula in Wexford?

Title: Re: Loftus
Post by: shanew147 on Wednesday 09 June 10 14:57 BST (UK)

The house was built in 1870/1 and is listed on the 1901 and 1911 census returns, but no members of the family are listed on either.

see :

  Loftus Hall - 1911 (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Wexford/Templetown/Loftushall/687736/)
  Loftus Hall - 1901 (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Wexford/Templetown/Loftushall/1797187/)

The owner of the property on the form B1 is shown as Lord Ely (1901) and the Marquis of Ely (1911) - which was the title given to the Loftus family.


Shane

Title: Re: Loftus
Post by: Jack2227 on Tuesday 22 June 10 23:10 BST (UK)

Houses of Wexford

Dungulph Castle, Saltmills
Townland; Dungulph
The entire property was was granted to Henry Loftus in 1666 and the Loftus family (g.v. Loftus Hall) remained there as owners until 1912.
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Loftus Hall, Fethard-on-Sea (also Redmond Hall)
Townland; Loftus Hall, Hook Peninsula.
Dudley Loftus, eldest son of Lord Adam Loftus, archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was granted the lands of Kilcloggan about the year 1590. Subsequently the Loftus family acquired much more land in the area, including the manor of Fethard.
They were given the title Viscount Ely in 1756 and raised to the peerage at a later date.
Henry Loftus mover to Redmond Hall and an inscription reading, Henry Loftus of Loftus Hall Esq, 1680 still survives in part.
The Loftus family gave up the estate in the twentieth century.

Title: Re: Loftus
Post by: Katharine75 on Monday 28 June 10 01:09 BST (UK)

Seanmac. Do you have the book "Houses of Wexford" as I would love a lookup for a surname/place? Katharine.

Title: Re: Loftus
Post by: Sir Crispin Gaylord, Bt. on Sunday 03 April 11 07:13 BST (UK)

Quote from: rymer on Wednesday 09 June 10 14:32 BST (UK)

Looking for info on the Loftus family who lived at Loftus hall on the Hook peninsula in Wexford?

Splendid family, Cromwellians, of course, like all the best families in Ireland. There is any amount of information freely available in all the standard reference works, e.g. Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Burke's Peerage, Dictionary of National Biography, etc. etc.

Yours, etc.
   Siir Crispin Gaylord, Bt.

Title: Re: Loftus
Post by: rymer on Wednesday 15 January 14 21:55 GMT (UK)

No Sir Crispin Gaylord, they were Elizabethans not Cromwellians. OC didn't arrive until 1649.

Title: Re: Loftus
Post by: conahy calling on Tuesday 21 January 14 18:40 GMT (UK)

Connections in Mount Loftus, Co. Kilkenny

http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/what-s-on/arts-culture-entertainment/mount-1-4080270