a random addition

I do mean to keep going but it could be a full time job, so if there are daily posts you'll know I've finally fully retired, I have managed to get work down to 3 days per week...

Anyway I was looking through some random trawling of the ether I'd done a few year ago and thought this would be of interest, I've lost the link so apologies...

John

1766

29 May Deed of Transfer of Borough of Enniscorthy between Vesey Colclough of Tintern Abbey and Adam eldest surviving son of Caesar Colclough of Duffry Hall dcd. by which Adam surrenders his burgessship to Vesey as also do Rev Thomas Colclough brother of Adam, Richard, also brother, and Caesar eldest son of Adam; and Vesey is put into quiet and peaceable enjoyment of the .Borough of Enniscorthy by Adam for the sum of £3,000. Witnesses included Thomas, Henry & Richard Colclough. By the above deed the Borough was transferred from the Duffry Hall branch of the Colclough family to the Tintern Branch who disposed of it to Lord Lismore and Sir Wm. Gleadows for £13,000 in March 1800 The sale is mentioned in a letter from John Colclough to his brother Caesar dated March 1800. For dealings in pocket boroughs see Lecky, vol. iv. Some account of the Duffry branch of the Colclough family connected for so many years and by so many members of the family, with this town may be acceptable. The extent and bounds of The Duffry do not appear to be precisely known. As far as we can make it out it was an extensive district lying between the Rivers Urrin & Glasha, including most of Monart with parts of Templeshanbo and Killan, and the Northern part of the forest of Killoughrim.. It was bounded in the North by Mount Leinster and in the South probably included the site of the Anglo-Norman town of Enniscorthy, which was the high land on the right bank of the Slaney. It did not pass to the other side as the river was its boundary to the east. Sir Thomas Colclough of Tintern appears to have been the first of the family to acquire land in this district. The following is an extract from some mss of the late Caesar Colclough " The Duffry estate appears to have been acquired partly by private purchase and partly by grant from the crown. In 1603 Sir Thomas purchased several townlands from Sir Geo. Carew, Kt. On 20 March 1627 Sir Dudley (son of Sir Dudley) had a confirmation from the crown of right and title to the Castle, town and lands of Moynart and divers other lands in the Duffrie, all of which had been previously acquired by Sir Thomas, paying to the Crown a yearly rent of 15s and on 15 Dec. 1685 Patrick (son of Sir Dudley) got a grant of about 40 townlands for ever at a. yearly rent of £60.00 (note 40 townlands about 7,800 acres). Whether this comprises the whole of the Dufrrie or only the part held by the Colcloughs or whether it describes all that the Colcloughs possesses in the Duffrie is uncertain. Duffry Hall close to Kiltealy in Templeshanbo Parish is marked on the O.S. map. The Urrin River separates them. Under the heading Irish Life 120 years Ago notices of this place and the Colcloughs who lived there appeared in The People, a local Wexford paper, in July 1899 and December 21 1901. An Evening in the Duffry in the same paper August 16 & 30 1902 and Nov. 28 1903 also describe it. It is stated 'to have been built early in the 17th century for the heir of Tintern to reside there while waiting to succeed to his inheritance. A fine massive mansion with accommodation for a large family beside a great number of guests with their servants and attendants. It could not have been built before 1655 or it would have been shown on the Down Survey map. It may have been built after 1685 when Patrick Colclough got his large land grant. and was probably intended either as dower house for Tintern or as a separate residence for the Mocurry branch of the family.