Collection LE3 - Homan, Papers of Sir William,

17 items

The Grandison Estate in County Waterford was centred on Dromana, the principal seat of the Decie Fitzgeralds from the later Middle Ages on. The family survived the political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when the surviving heir of the house, Catherine, married George Villiers, the Earl of Grandison. The only surviving heir of John, second earl of Grandison, Lady G A Villiers, married the first Marquis of Bute, whose son, Lord Henry Stuart (d. 1809), was brother-in-law to Sir William Homan.

The seventeen items in this collection can hardly be said to provide a comprehensive record of the workings of the Grandison estate. The material here does, however, provide an interesting glimpse into estate management at the beginning of the nineteenth century, primarily through the few examples in Homan's correspondence. The leases, the backbone of landed estate management while providing specific information on parties and land denominations, provide no discernible land-holding pattern.

The arrangement of this collection reflects these two aspects. The first part consists of leases, the second of material relating to Sir William Homan, primarily dealing with the management of the Grandison Estates.

The material is accessible to all bone fide researchers, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at the James Hardiman Library. For a full statement of the conditions, please see: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/collections/archives/conditionsofaccess/
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Researchers must seek the written permission of the Archivist before publication of material from the archival holdings, and the source must be acknowledged.

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15/04/2013
05/08/2025