Belmullet Board of Guardians - Patrick Henry and Henry REILLY

[aakarlhamo]

In the mid 19th century John Reilly prospered in business in the town of Belmullet and began to acquire lands. He bought land that had formerly been in the possession of the Houston and Nash families and in 1868 he leased more than 1000 acres from Reverend Sir William Palmer in the barony of Erris, county Mayo. In 1876 Thomas F.O'Reilly of Carne House, Belmullet, owned 6472 acres in county Mayo. By March 1916 he had accepted an offer from the Congested Districts' Board for the purchase of his estate and Noone writes of the sale of the estate in 1920 to the Board.

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=348

[heywood]

Thom’s Almanac 1859

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Belmullet Union

Vice Chairman Thomas Reilly Esq. Belmullet
Clerk and Returning Officer Patrick Reilly
Master P Reilly



1860 report refers to Thomas Reilly and Thomas J Reilly
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From google books

[heywood]

Griffiths Valuation

Reilly in Belmullet area - Kilcommon Civil Parish
https://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/mayo/kilcommon.htm

Reilly in Kilmore Civil Parish - Binghamstown et al
https://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/mayo/kilmore.htm

Lots of Reillys 

[aakarlhamo]

In the mid 19th century John Reilly prospered in business in the town of Belmullet and began to acquire lands. He bought land that had formerly been in the possession of the Houston and Nash families and in 1868 he leased more than 1000 acres from Reverend Sir William Palmer in the barony of Erris, county Mayo. In 1876 Thomas F.O'Reilly of Carne House, Belmullet, owned 6472 acres in county Mayo. By March 1916 he had accepted an offer from the Congested Districts' Board for the purchase of his estate and Noone writes of the sale of the estate in 1920 to the Board.

http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=348

Think I saw this in my searches but dismissed it thinking that my Reilly's weren't rich to own so much land being small farmers/shop owners.

[hallmark]

Hi

I am looking for information on the Belmullet Board of Guardians and my GGF Patrick Henry Reilly, b abt 1834-40 d1908 Belmullet, who was Chairman in 1864 and his father Henry Reilly who was also involved at that time.

 

You might find them mentioned here...

https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Irish+papers+-+poor+law%2C+social+insurance%22&page=9

[hallmark]

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Oh Wow Hallmark, where did you find that?

The workhouse was built in 1848 so looks like the Guardians were active before?

I wonder if that was Henry Reilly, Patrick Henry's Dad as mentioned in the 1864 newspaper.
I deduced from the newspaper article that Thomas J Reilly was his brother so maybe he was one of the 3 Reilly's mentioned in your article? Either way the Reilly's were quite involved - interesting?

some lands held by Denis Bingham in the Mullet and in Doolough were placed in trust for William Bingham, as well as lands in Doolough  and Gortmore held by Arthur Houston.
One parcel of land was in the townland of Curraboy, by Saleen Harbour (to the south of Binghamstown) and it was here that William erected stores, also a dwelling house (Bay View) which was approx ¼ mile east of the harbour.

The harbour enterprise was not particularly successful, so in early 1848 he leased the stores for use as an auxiliary workhouse and got the post of workhouse superintendent. This proved his undoing: he contracted fever and died later that year.

[hallmark]

 archive.org /   search.php?query=      Binghamstown


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[aakarlhamo]

Blimey, I am over whelmed with the amount of info you have found I can't keep up and it will take me a month of Sunday's to work though it all  

There are some great links and sites that I have bookmarked so thank you Hallmark and Heywood.

[hallmark]

Henry Reilly wore Size 8 shoes!