Estate: Bagwell (Marlfield)

Associated Families

• Bagwell

Description

In 1749 William Bagwell, Member of Parliament for Clonmel married Jane daughter and co heir of John Harper of Belgrove, county Cork. In 1781 his son John Bagwell Member of Parliament for county Tipperary purchased Marlfield, county Tipperary, from Stephen Moore. In 1774 John had married Mary Hare a sister of the 1st Earl of Listowel. At the time of Griffith's Valuation their grandson John Bagwell, Member of Parliament for Clonmel 1857-1874, held land in the county Cork parish of Templerobin, barony of Barrymore and Killanully, barony of Cork. His land in the county Galway parish of Athenry was leased to Burton Persse. The county Tipperary estate was located in the parishes of Ballybacon and Tubbrid, barony of Iffa and Offa West, Inishlounaght and St Marys Clonmel, barony of Iffa and Offa East and barony of Upperthird, county Waterford. His eldest son Richard inherited Marlfield and his second son William lived at East Grove. John Bagwell, of Marlfield, Clonmel, county Tipperary, is recorded as the owner of over 350 acres in county Galway, 509 acres in county Cork, 3,519 acres in county Tipperary and 778 acres in county Waterford, in the 1870s. A John Bagwell of Lecklash Castle, Fermoy, county Cork, was the owner of 662 acres in county Tipperary in the 1870s.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Belgrove (H3517) A house possibly inherited by the Bagwells through marriage with the Harpers. The residence of J. Travers in 1814 and of the Reverend G. Gumbleton in 1837 and in the early 1850s. The Reverend Gumbleton held the property from John Bagwell and it was valued at £36. Bence Jones writes that William Gumbleton, son of the Reverend, lived in this house under 1911. The house was demolished in the mid 20th century and a new building erected.	Belgrove	Templerobin	Cork	Queenstown Rural 103	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.86865 -8.21344 OSI Ref: W853 685 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #88.
East Grove (H3518) Bence Jones writes that this early 19th century house was built by Dorcas Bousfield, daughter of William Bagwell and his wife Jane Harper. After her death it was inherited by the Bagwells and remained in their possession until the mid 20th century. In 1837 John Bagwell is recorded as the proprietor of East Grove and also in the early 1850s, when the property was valued at £40 and held from the representatives of Viscount Midleton. In 1942 the Irish Tourist Association Survey noted that it was the residence of Major Bagwell and the adjacent grounds contained the remains of buildings thought to be "the now-unknown castle of Ballinakilla". 20th century owners included Lorretta Brennan Glucksman, and the Kelly family, musicians. In recent years it has been offered for sale.	Belgrove	Templerobin	Cork	Queenstown Rural 103	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.87135 -8.20619 OSI Ref: W858 688 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #76.
Scart (H3881) The residence of Robert Croker in 1814 and of Henry Rice in 1837. The Ordnance Survey Name Books refer to it as his residence in 1840, "pleasantly situated on rising ground and in good repair". In the early 1850s Rice held the property from John Bagwell and the buildings were valued at £12+. Henry Rice may have been a son-in-law of Robert Croker. see http://members.iinet.net.au/~nickred/croker_research/The_Irish_CROKER.pdf A building is still located at this site.	Scart	Tubbrid	Clogheen	Burncourt 70	Iffa and Offa West	Tipperary	Lat/Lon: 52.31552 -7.92961 OSI Ref: S048 182 Discovery map #74. OS Sheet #81.
Marlfield (H3894) Built by Colonel John Bagwell MP in the late 18th century in the Palladian style. It was the seat of the Bagwell family of Clonmel in the 19th and 20th centuries, held from the Moores of Barne and valued at almost £83 in the early 1850s. The central part of the house was burnt in 1923 and rebuilt in 1925 and has been in use as an apartment complex.In 2020 it was offered for sale.	Marlfield	Inishlounaght	Clonmel	Inishlounaght 82	Iffa and Offa East	Tipperary	Lat/Lon: 52.31996 -7.86800 OSI Ref: S090 187 Discovery map #74. OS Sheet #82.
Salisbury (H3896) Stephen Moore is recorded as resident here in 1814 and T. Sadlier in 1837. The christian name of the mother of Stephen Moore was Salisbury. By the time of Griffith's Valuation John Bagwell held the house in fee. It was valued at £18+. Percy Gough of Salisbury, Clonmel, owned 724 acres in King's County in the 1870s. Slater refers to "Inislonagh House" as the seat of Lt-Gen. Sir Charles J. Gough in 1894. Bence Jones writes that this house was leased to J.W. Cleeve in the early 20th century and from the late 1920s to Sir David O'Brien 6th Baronet.	Inishlounaght	Inishlounaght	Clonmel	Inishlounaght 82	Iffa and Offa East	Tipperary	Lat/Lon: 52.35033 -7.74756 OSI Ref: S172 221 Discovery map #74. OS Sheet #83.
Oaklands (H3897) William Ryal was living at Oakland, Clonmel, in 1814 and Mr Bagwell in 1837. Colonel Phipps was resident at the time of Griffith's Valuation, holding the house valued at £49.10 shillings from John Bagwell. Still occupied as a residence.	Patrickswell	Inishlounaght	Clonmel	Inishlounaght 82	Iffa and Offa East	Tipperary	Lat/Lon: 52.35573 -7.75486 OSI Ref: S167 227 Discovery map #74. OS Sheet #83.
Glenconnor (H3912) This house also know as Larchfield was built by Solomon Watson at the end of the 18th century as a dower house for Summerville (Bence Jones). Leet records Larchfield as unoccupied in 1814. J. Bagwell was resident at Glenconnor in 1837 and Pierce Gough in the early 1850s when the house was valued at £23.10 shillings. Alderman William Byrne of Clonmel was resident here in the 1870s. Additions were made to the house in the 1880s and it was owned by a Colonel George Elliot in the early 20th century who sold it in 1938 to H.J.Cleeve.	Glenconnor	Kiltegan	Clonmel	Inishlounaght 82	Iffa and Offa East	Tipperary	Lat/Lon: 52.36018 -7.73135 OSI Ref: S183 232 Discovery map #74. OS Sheet #83.
Melview (H3919) A house on the outskirts of Clonmel, occupied by Robert Malcomson in the mid 19th century, held from John Bagwell and valued at £52. This building now functions as a nursing home.	Burgagery Lands West	St Marys Clonmel	Clonmel	Clonmel Rural 73	Iffa and Offa East	Tipperary	Lat/Lon: 52.35832 -7.70494 OSI Ref: S201 230 Discovery map #75. OS Sheet #83.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Cobh
• National Archives of Ireland: Rough plan of holdings of W. Bagwell in burgess lands of Clonmel, by W. Steile, 1755. M. 6020
• National Library of Ireland: Riall Papers: Rentals, accounts, letters and papers, relating to family affairs and to properties in Dublin city and county, Co. Wicklow and Co. Kilkenny. c.400 items, late 18th-early 20th c. (An unsorted collection in the National Library of Ireland.) PC 260-261
• National Library of Ireland: Detailed abstracts of wills of Bagwell of Clonmel, of Kilmore, Co. Tipperary, and of Cork City, 1738 -- 1783. GO Ms.139, pp.70-3
• National Library of Ireland: Bagwell Estate, Marlfield, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary: Cash book 1892-1904. Ms. 25278
• National Library of Ireland: Bagwell Estate, Marlfield, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary: Labour account, 1885-1889; 1889-1901. Ms. 25279-80
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of royal licence to Edward Bagwell of Marlfield, Co. Tipperary, to take the name Purefoy in addition to and after that of Bagwell and bear the arms of Purefoy, April 5, 1847. GO Ms.152, pp.38-41
• National Library of Ireland: Bagwell Estate, Marlfield, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary: Workmen's accounts, 1883-84; 1884-86; 1886-88; 1894-1896, 1897-1899. Mss. 25273-25277
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of grant of arms, being Purefoy quartering Bagwell to Edward Bagwell of Marlfield, Co. Tipperary on his assuming under Royal Licence and in conformity with the will of William Purefoy, late of Greenfield, Co. Tipperary, the name and arms of Purefoy, April 23, 1847. GO Ms.107, pp.364-5
• National Library of Ireland: Bagwell Estate, Marlfield, Clonmel, Co Tipperary: Marlfield dairy accounts 1949-51. Ms. 25281
• National Library of Ireland: History of the Bagwell family by Harriette Bagwell. Ms 32,617
• Tipperary Studies Research Library (Archives), Thurles: Bagwell Papers, include legal documents, parchment deeds, accounts, maps, etc 17th-20th centuries. TL/F/20
• Tipperary Studies Research Library (Archives), Thurles: Irish Tourist Association Survey file, early 1940s, South Tipperary No. 14 (Marlfield)

Contemporary printed sources

Many of these resources are now available online. For a list with Web links please see the Online Printed Sources Links

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barrymore Barony, 56 (Belgrove)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Iffa and Offa West, 129 (Scart)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Iffa and Offa East, 43 (Inishlounaght), 47 (Marlfield), 49 (Patrickswell), 105 (Burgagery Lands West)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Upperthird (Waterford): 76 (Spa)
• BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. : 20
• HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 16.
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 65 (Belgrove, Cove - J. Travers)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 673 (East Grove), II, 23 (Marlfield & Oakland)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of names of proprietors and area and valuation of properties in counties in Ireland, held in fee or perpetuity or long leases at chief rents, 1876. (412) LXXX. 395: 151.
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 116, 158, 293
• SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) : xxx, 268 (Marlfield)
• TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 167 (Belgrove)
• TOWNSEND, Horatio. Statistical survey of the county of Cork... Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1810: 587 (Belgrove)

Modern printed sources

• Tipperary Historical Journal: BEARY-Ó CLÉIRIGH, Nellie. Marlfield's coloured embroidry industry and Lady Aberdeen. (2000), 20-24
• Tipperary Historical Journal: O'DONNELL, Michael. Parliamentary Representation for County Tipperary, 1560-1800. (2000), 136-148 & (2001), 97-110
• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 36, 117, 203, 254
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1912: 22.
• HAYES, William and KAVANAGH, Art. The Tipperary Gentry. Dublin: Irish Family Names, 2003 : 16-27
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 50-51
• NOLAN, William. Patterns of living in County Tipperary from 1770 to 1850. In NOLAN, William (ed.) Tipperary: History and Society. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1985: 288-314