Burgoyne Estate: Tenants in Ballygowan Townland, Parish of Drumragh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland 1851
Reference PRONI T866/4
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Robert Forrest, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
bob@forrestresearchservices.com
With additions submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com
Ballygowan is a townland of some 424 acres in the parish of Drumragh in Co Tyrone. It is located south-west of Omagh on the main road to Irvinestown:In 1851 the whole townland was in the possession of Lady Charlotte Burgoyne (ors. Head)[means maiden name] - she was the widow of Sir John James Burgoyne and his second wife. Sir John James Burgoyne died on 23 May 1838 in his 58th year after a short illness at his seat Strabane. He had been agent of the Abercorn estate and provost of Strabane.
The Land was put up for sale through the recently established Encumbered estates court.
The Burgoyne tenants in Ballygowan were only tenants from year to year and had less security than those tenants who held terminable leases or perpetuity leases:
For the record the list of tenants in Ballygowan (also given as Ballygowans because there was an upper portion and also a nether portion) was as follows -
BALLYGOWAN TENANTS RECORDED IN 1851
| Name |
| Wm. Watson |
| Frances Kelly |
| Stephen McDead |
| Philip Maguir |
| Charles McNulty |
| John Lafferty |
| Chas. McCaffray |
| James Teacey |
| Andrew Higgins |
| John Colter |
| James Lafferty |
| William McCullow |
| Peter Nugent |
| Patrick Nugent |
| William Conway |
| William McAuly |
| Owen Lafferty |
It is interesting to look at the 1834 Drumragh Parish Tithe Applotment Book and c1860 Griffiths Valuation to determination changes in tenancies and leaseholds:
BALLYGOWAN TENANTS RECORDED IN DRUMRAGH PARISH TITHE APPLOTMENT BOOK 1834
| Name |
| James Beatty |
| Sir John Burgoyne |
| William Conway |
| James Corrins |
| Robert Coulter |
| Patrick Donnely |
| Patrick Gallagher |
| Andrew Higgins |
| Daniel Keegan |
| Francis Kelly |
| Mick Lafferty |
| Neil McAnulty |
| Rev. Mr. McCaffrey |
| Edward McCrory |
| William McCullow |
| Charles McGolrick |
| Mick McKenny |
| Charles Nugent |
| Denis Nugent |
| Felix Nugent |
| Hugh Nugent |
| James Tracy |
| Thomas Tracy |
BALLYGOWAN TENANTS RECORDED IN GRIFFITHS VALUATION c1860
| Name |
| Owen Lafferty |
| Robert Newton |
| Henry McGale |
| Anne Quinn |
| Stephen McDaid |
| Hugh Morris |
| Joseph Mellon |
| Philip McGuire |
| John Lafferty |
| Bernard McCaffrey |
| Andrew McElshee |
| James Tracy |
| Charles McAnulty |
| Andrew Higgins |
| Robert Coulter |
| Robert Wallace |
| John Nixon |
| Alexander Beatty |
| James Lafferty |
| John Sweeny |
| William McCullagh |
| Patrick Nugent |
| Peter Nugent |
| William Conway |
| Mary Conway |
| Patrick McAuley |
| Hugh Haughry |
| Robert Breen |
| Edward Quinn |
| Edward Starr |
| Charles McGorlick |
| Sarah McLoughlin |
| Robert Chisholm |
| Henry Nugent |
| Michael Maginn |
| James McGuire |
