Marcus Keane (1815 - 1883)

Born 7 Feb 1815 in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Louisa Isabella (Westby) Keane — married 9 Nov 1847 in Ireland

Descendants

Died 29 Oct 1883 at age 68 in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland

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Biography

"Marcus Keane was from a prominent family in Ennis. his father, Robert ‘long Bob’ Keane (b.1774 d.1839), a Protestant land agent, had built his family home in Beechpark circa 1800. His sixth son Marcus took over his father’s land agency upon his death in 1839.

Marcus married Louisa Westby, daughter of Nicholas Westby of Kilballyowen. The larger estates in which Keane was land agent were the Westby, Conyngham and Henn estates. ^[1]

"Marcus Keane earned the name ‘the exterminator General of Clare’ due to his mass evictions in Clare. in February 1848 Keane evicted 30 families from the Westby estate at Annghneal, east Clare, levelling their houses completely. later in the same month he removed another 30 families from three townlands near Kilrush, to a total of 185 persons."

In the early 1850s Keane bought 1,000 acres at Enogh, barony of Moyarta and by the 1870s Marcus Keane’s estate had grown to 4,784 acres in County Clare.

Marcus Keane died 29 Oct 1883 in Ennis, 68 yrs, married, land agent, reported by son Marcus Keane. ^[2]

The will of Marcus Keane, late of Beech Park, Ennis, County Clare, Esquire who died 29 Oct 1883 was proved at principal registry by Marcus Keane, one of the executors. Effects £ 8,723. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://landedestates.ie/estate/1854
2. ↑ https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1883/06342/4818910.pdf
3. ↑ http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014898/005014898_00236.pdf

• http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/archives/McMahon_Archival_Collection.pdf

• Figures in a Famine Landscape by Ciarán Ó Murchadha.