Does any one know of a picture of Tubberdaly House, Edenderry Co Offaly, or a description of the house. The house was Georgian and built on the site of the ruined Tubberdaly castle. This house was owned by the Nesbitts and burned down 15th April 1923. Thank you.

TUBBERDALY HOUSE FACING P256THE DECLINE OF THE BIG HOUSE IN IRELAND DOOLEY

hi there .. In relation to you quest to finding a photograph of tubberdaly house well my mothers family is nesbitt and we would like to hear from you are you a decendant please if you have any information or anything regarding the family i would love to know .. i have alot of information tht i have sifted through but if i can help you well that would be great .. best wishes and kind regards
julian davis

Thank you so much for the information on the book. Yesterday was the first time I saw your message, so I'm sorry for the delay in replying to you. I have already contacted my nearest library for an inter-library loan or if failing that the British Library. Jill.

Hello Julian,
Thank you for your email. I am not a decendant of the Nesbitt family but of my Downing family into which a Nesbitt daughter married. The information I have is - In 1737 Tamison Nesbitt, was born she was the daughter and heiress of James and Medici nee Lucas [I have also seen her father named as John] of Tubberdaly, Kings Co. now Offaly Co. She married Alexander Clotworthy Downing 23rd Jan 1765. She died in 1817 and on 2nd November was interred in the Downing vault situated near to the main doorway of St.Tida's Church, Bellaghy, Co. Londonderry. You can see the vault on the church website.
Tamison and Alexander had 4 children that I know of. Their eldest son John Downing born 2nd Dec. 1768 took the additional name of Nesbitt to inherit an estate from his uncle, Gifford Nesbitt who died in 1773. Later the Tubberdaly estate also come down to John.
John Downing Nesbitt married Jane Brady daughter of William Brady of Leixlip, Co. Kildare. John and Jane Downing Nesbitt had 3 sons and 3 daughters. Their sons all died unmarried in their 30's. Of their daughters only one married, from a family letter, dated Dec 1911, I learnt there was a son named Spiro, but as the marriage folded and Spiro's mother returned to live with her two unmarried sisters, in Ireland, until her death I can only think that Spiro stayed with his father, if he was still alive, or Spiro was older enough to live alone, possibly abroad.
The last of John Downing Nesbitt's children to die was Catherine Tamison Downing Nesbitt 26th Feb. 1886, the author of the letter dated in 1911 assumed her estate was left to her nephew Spiro but this was not so, she left it to Edward John Beaumont who took the additional name of Nesbitt. Edward John Beaumont-Nesbitt born in 1860 was the great grandson of Medici Dawson nee Downing and Medici was the sister of John Downing who had taken the additional name of Nesbitt back in the late 1700's to inherit from his uncle Gifford Nesbitt.
I hope you will recognise some of the names above, and if you have more information I would be most interested. Good luck and best wishes, Jill.

Hi,

I am a historian from Edenderry and have accumulated quite alot of information about the Nesbitt's of Tubberdaly. The family were a very important family in the area for well over a hundred years.
I am currently researching the managament of landed estates in King's County (Offaly) in the mid ninteenth century.

Regards,

Ciaran

Hello, thank you for your email. My family I am researching are the Downings and Tamison Nesbitt married Alexander Clotworthy Downing, have you come across the Downing name in connection to the Nesbitts?
Also while researching the Nesbitts have you come across the name Spiro, he was the great-grandson of Alexander Clotworthy and Tamison nee Nesbitt. His father was Count Susi, possibly of Paris. Thank you. Jill.

Yes there is a Miss Downing Nesbitt of Tubberdaly who in 1877 gave £10,000 for the extension of a railway to Edenderry. The junction is still known after her.

Hello, this is Catherine Tamison Downing Nesbitt who was born in 1800 and died in 1886. She was the last surviving child of John Downing who took the additional name of Nesbitt and his wife - Jane nee Brady of Leixlip. Co. Kildare.
She must have been in a giving mood in 1877 as she also donated a church bell to St. Tida's Church, Bellaghy, Co. Londonderry. It hangs high in the tower and is inscribed with her name and date. By 1877 all her siblings had died, and her father John and his parents, her grandparents, Alexander Clotworthy and Tamison nee Nesbitt were buried in the Downing vault so she may have wished to give a gift to the Church.
Thank you for the information, if you come across more I would be most interested. Jill.

That is very interesting about the bell tower. I have a picture of the nesbitt junction line if you are interested. Perhaps you could post an email address