Eyre Evans

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Eyre Evans, JP , DL (23 May 1773 - 29 January 1856), of Ash Hill Towers, Kilmallock, County Limerick and Milltown Castle, Charleville, County Cork, [1] was an Irish landowner.

He was the son of Eyre Evans and Mary Williams, daughter and heiress of Thomas Williams. He was a great-nephew of George Evans, 1st Baron Carbery (see Baron Carbery) and great-grandson of the Rt-Hon. George Evans. [2] He married Anna Maunsell, daughter of Robert Maunsell, of Bank Place, Limerick. His daughter Caroline married The Hon. James Ogilvie-Grant (later the 9th Earl of Seafield, which title his descendants hold). [3]

The Ash Hill and Milltown estate comprised some 3,000 acres and was sold in 1880 to the Weldon family. [1] [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Evans (Ash Hill Towers) | Landed Estates | University of Galway". landedestates.ie.
  2. ↑ Burke, John (1833). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours. Henry Colburn.
  3. ↑ Lord Strathspey (1983). A History of Clan Grant. Phillimore. ISBN   978-0-85033-442-5.
  4. ↑ Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 1892. p. 74.
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