Land agents

woody1

my great great great grandfather was a land agent, im not fully sure what estates he was attached to but id have an educated guess at at least one in cavan..mountain lodge demesne..
is there anywhere i can find any information in relation to the estate and the land agent side of things as ive drawn a blank everywhere else.. im guessing its the kind of job that would be got thru family either handed down or contacts

pinkypinky

I just googled "mountain lodge demesne" and the internet suggested it was in Monaghan.
This site (logainm) gave an alternative name for it as Farmoyle House or Demesne.

I just looked up both names in Bence-Jones and a couple of other books on old houses I have here and couldn't find it.

Do you know the name of the family he worked for? This sort of job did sometimes pass through families but only if the next generation was properly competent.

woody1

think cavan monaghan border.. yeah i knew it was farmoyle, dont know family he worked for or anything like that..
its a big presumption and it may be way out, based on the fact that at least 2 of his daughters were born there, and a grandson, with him at the birth,
hes down as land agent on his daughters marriage cert,

pinkypinky

Well, the best way to approach it then is to research which estates and families owned land in that area, then check if Cavan/Monaghan libraries or NLI/NAI have estate records for them and get digging.

If you locate a trade directory for the area and time period, it will tell you who the local gentry are.

shanew

from the Lewis 1837 entry for the civil parish of Aghnamullen/Aughnamullen, which includes the Mountain Lodge Demesne townland :

'...The principal seats are Mountain Lodge, situated in a beautiful demesne, that of Lieut.-Col. Ker....,

pinkypinky

Just checked Burkes LGI 1912 - there's a Ker family in Co. Down but no mention of Mountain Lodge. Also Murray-Ker family of Monaghan. Some army mentions but nothing again about this house.

woody1

http://thesilverbowl.com/documents/Breakey_Memoirs/Breakey%20Manuscript%20BOOK%20ONE%20COMPLETE.htm

got some bits and pieces re kerr but nothing about agar / eagar

Mumha

You might check PRONI as well, as they might have info about those estates. I know they have info about estates in Leitrim for definite.

woody1

thats the next step, was hoping to establish a link to an estate before i got onto them, maybe the only link to mountain lodge is that his daughter was living there..

Mumha

This site is great for Landed Estates, but has nothing on Monaghan unfortunately.

pinkypinky

Mumha wrote: »

This site is great for Landed Estates, but has nothing on Monaghan unfortunately.

It's just Munster & Connacht for now but they are hoping to get funding to do Ulster at some stage.

Hermy

pinkypinky wrote: »

It's just Munster & Connacht for now but they are hoping to get funding to do Ulster at some stage.

Hope they get around to Leinster at some stage too.