Eyre Evans Explained

Eyre Evans, (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.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Evans (Ash Hill Towers) Landed Estates University of Galway . landedestates.ie.
2. Book: Burke, John . 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 . 1833 . Henry Colburn . en.
3. Lord Strathspey (1983). A History of Clan Grant. Phillimore. ISBN 978-0-85033-442-5.
4. Book: Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society . 1892 . Cork Historical and Archaeological Society . 74 . en.