Colonel Crofton Moore Vandeleur (1809 – 8 November 1881) was an Irish landowner and Conservative Party politician from Kilrush in County Clare.
They were initially based at Ralahine in Sixmilebridge, by James Vandeleur in the late 1630s, and were compensated by the Cromwellians for losses during the 1641 rebellion.
[2] In 1828, he succeeded to his father's extensive estates, which by the middle of the century included almost 20,000 acres in County Clare, mostly in the barony of Moyarta.
However, their lack of compassion during the Great Famine and later their bad record as absentee landlords, left a legacy of hostility to the family, exacerbated by widespread evictions in the 1880s.
Kilrush House burned down near the end of the century, and the Vandeleurs gradually severed their connection with the town.