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120 ARDILAUN — ARDSALLA. OF ASHFORD, co. Gahvay. He m. 16 Feb. 1671 at Biuitry, co. Cork, Olivia Char- lotte, 2nd da. of William Henry Hare (Hedges White), 3rd E, L or Banthy [J.] by Jane, da. of Charles John Hekbeht of Muckross Abbey, co. KeiTy. She was b. 25 Aug. 1850. Family Estates— These, in 1883, consisted of about 27,000 acres in co. Gahvay about 4,000, co. Mayo, and about 500, CO. Dublin. Total about 31,500 acres, worth about £6,500 a year. See Bateman's "Great Landowners." Principal /Caitlcnca, Ashford,(°) near Cong, co. Gahvay; St. Anne's Clontarf, co. Dublin. ARDMANACH, or ARDMAXXOCH. i.e. " LORD OF ARDATAXNOCH " [8.] Sco " ROSS," Earl of [S.], or. 1481 ; ex. 1504. i.e. " EARL OF EDIRDALE, alias ARDMAX ACII " (.-/-•) [S.] See " Ross," Duke of [S.], er. 1487-8 ; ex. 1504. i.e. " LORD OF ARDM ANXOC1I " [S.j See " Ross," Eatl of [S.], cr. 1565, vested hi the Crown 1587. i.e. "LORD OF ARDMAXXOCH " [S.] See "Albany," Duk« of, [S.], cr. 1600, vested in the Crown 1625. AEDROSSAX. i.e. » BAROX ARDROSSAX of Anlrossan, co. Ayr," cr, 21 Feb. 1S0O. See " EGLINTON," Earl of [&], under 12th Earl. ARDS, nee ARDES. ARDSALLA. i.e. " BAROX LUDLOW OF ARDSALLA, co. Meath " [I.], cr. 1755. See " LUDLOW," Earl of [I.], cr. 1760 ; ex. 1842. i.e. " VISCOUNT PRESTON OF ARDSALLA, co. Meath Btl cr. 1760. See " LUDLOW," Earl of [I.], cr. 1760 ; ex. 1842. le. " VISCOUNT AMBERLEY OF AMBERLEY, co. Gloucester, AND OF ARDSALLA, co. Meath." See " RUSSELL," Earl, cr. 1861. (») A correspondent of " The Times " newspaper (15 Sep. 1884) writes as follows— " It was in 1852 that the late Sir Benjamin Guinness bought Ashford of Lord Oranmore as a small residential estate, being captivated by the extreme beauty of the spot, and intending merely to build a eott;ige ornee. In 1 860 be added the adjacent Rosshill, sold to him by Lord Charlemont and Lord Leitrim, who had married the two Miss Berminghams, who were co-heiresses. Oddly enough, the next purchase in 1864 was also from eo-heiresses— from the Missea Blake, nieces of the late Sir Vaieutiue Blake. It was that of Doon, and the picturesquely situated island ruin of Castle Kirk is a part of it. I have not visited the Doon property, where there is It handsome shooting lodge, but it is said to be as rich in natural attractions as Ashfonl. It was about the same time, 1 think, that 2,000 of the most poverty-stricken of the acres which I passed through in the neighbourhood of Maam were acquired from .Sir Hicbanl O'Donnell. Lastly, in 1870, the 6,000 acres around the white shooting lodge on the Lake of Kylemore, were bought from Mr. Finlay, a newspaper proprietor in Belfast, who had himself purchased them not very long before from the D'Arey's of Clifdaij one of the oldest of the Mayo families. The average price of these lands was 20 years of the former rents ; of course the rents since then have in many ciisos been considerably reduced."