Estate: Lysaght/MacLysaght (Hazlewood & Raheen)

Associated Families

• Moreland (Raheen)
• MacLysaght
• Royse

Description

The MacLysaght or Lysaght family were mainly located in county Clare in the 17th century. In 1749 William Lysaght of Shandangan, county Clare, married Elizabeth Knight of Ballynoe, county Cork, and they had a "pretty little thatched cottage" at Clogheen, parish of Caherduggan, county Cork. Their eldest son, William Lysaght of Fort William, Doneraile, county Cork, married Catherine Royse of Ballinvirig, county Limerick, in 1791. In 1819 William Lysaght, eldest son of William and Catherine, married Frances, daughter of William Atkins of Fountainville and Hazlewood, county Cork. It was by this marriage that the Lysaghts acquired Hazlewood. At the time of Griffith's Valuation William Lysaght held an estate in the parish of Caherduggan, barony of Fermoy. [The representatives of William Lysaght held almost 2,000 acres at Meentinny East and West, parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, at the same time]. His main tenants were James Foote, Tim Hennessy and Reverend Freeman Crofts. In June 1863 the estate of Henry Lysaght at Clogheen and Neewtown, barony of Fermoy, amounting to 568 acres, was advertised for sale and the Croft interest in Clogheen was offered for sale in 1870. In the 1870s William Lysaght of Hazlewood owned 2,252 acres in county Cork. William's second son, Sidney Royse Lysaght, bought Raheen and 600 acres near Scarriff, county Clare in 1908. He built new entrance gates to the house and put on a new roof. S. R. Lysaght was the father of Edward MacLysaght (1887-1986), the well known genealogist and Chief Herald. In June 1876 the estate of James Lysaght [third son of William and Catherine Lysaght], at Cloongown, barony of Duhallow and Lodge, barony of Fermoy, county Cork and at Ballyrobin, barony of Clanwilliam, county Tipperary, was advertised for sale. The Irish Times reported the sale of some lots to James Creed Meredith, Reverend J. Sullivan (Tullyease House, Charleville) and James Delacour. Colonel Grove White's notes contain a large amount of Lysaght family history.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Raheen (H2126) This was the home of the Brady family from the mid 18th century. In 1837 Reverend Thomas B. Brady occupied the house. By the time of Griffith's Valuation William Moreland was in possession and the house, offices and mill valued at £4.10 shillings were leased to Patrick Flynn. In 1906 buildings at Raheen ,which included a mansion house and 401 acres of untenanted land belonging to Robert W. Moreland, were valued at £37. In 1908 the property was bought by S.R. MacLysaght of Mallow, father of Dr Edward MacLysaght, genealogist. The Irish Tourist Association Survey file refers to Raheen Hospital beautifully situated amid a large forest on the shores of Lough Derg. The house no longer exists.	Raheen	Tomgraney	Scarriff	Scarriff 136	Tulla Upper	Clare	Lat/Lon: 52.89773 -8.50826 OSI Ref: R658 831 Discovery map #58. OS Sheet #29.
Fort William House (H2303) Fort William was the residence of a branch of the Odell family in the 18th century. Occupied by Reverend John Graves in 1814. Mrs Graves had a flour mill here in 1837 but T. O'Dell was living at Fort William. The Ordnance Survey Name Book states that this house was formerly the residence of William Brown of Springmount ''at present occupied by a herdsman''. The residence of Richard D. Power in the mid 19th century who held the property valued at £11 from John B. Graves (in Chancery). The home of Goodricke Thomas Peacocke in the 1880s. This house is still extant and occupied.	Bealduvroga	Rathkeale	Rathkeale	Ballingarry 7	Connello Lower	Limerick	Lat/Lon: 52.48680 -8.85685 OSI Ref: R418 376 Discovery map #65. OS Sheet #29.
Elmvale (H3218) Elmvale was occupied in 1814 by Henry Lysaght and by 1837 was in the occupation of J. Duggan. Arthur Duggan held the property from the Earl of Limerick in the early 1850s. The house was valued at £20. Hajba writes that in the early 20th century the house was purchased by Sidney Royse Lysaght and following a feud with a neighbour was burnt in 1917. Later rebuilt and still occupied.	Baltydaniel East	Caherduggan	Mallow	Caherduggan 241	Fermoy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.18336 -8.66238 OSI Ref: R547 037 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #25.
Clogheen (H3220) In his journal William Lysaght refers to building a cottage at Clogheen in 1749. He was leasing Clogheen from Lady Midleton [see De Breffny, page 115]. By 1814 Clogheen was occupied by Arundel Hill who was still resident in 1837. Reverend William F. Crofts was the occupier at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He held the property from William Lysaght. It was valued at £31. In 1870 the house was occupied by Mrs Ellen Crofts. This house no longer exists although the outbuildings still stand.	Clogheen	Caherduggan	Mallow	Caherduggan 241	Fermoy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.21138 -8.63353 OSI Ref: R567 068 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #25.
Hazlewood (H3221) ''Burke's Irish Family Records'' suggests that this was originally an Atkins property which came into the possession of the Lysaghts through marriage. Hajba writes that William Lysaght built the house following his marriage in 1819 to Frances Atkins. Colonel Grove White's notes state that it was built before the marriage. In 1837 it was occupied by William Lysaght and in the early 1850s by Carbery B. Egan who held the property from William H. Lysaght. The buildings were valued at £21. This house remained in Lysaght posssession throughout the 20th century having been sold in 1913 by William Lysaght to his first cousin, Sidney Royse Lysaght. In the 1940s the Irish Tourist Association Survey noted that it was famous for its plant nurseries.	Twopothouse	Caherduggan	Mallow	Caherduggan 241	Fermoy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.19062 -8.65079 OSI Ref: R555 045 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #25.
Beechmount (H3332) At the time of Griffith's Valuation Sackville Hamilton occupied this house, valued at £22, which he held from James Lysaght, third son of William Lysaght of Fort William and Catherine Royse. James's son, William Lysaght, later lived in this house, which is still occupied. Sold to the Verlings in 1870.	Lodge	Mallow	Mallow	Mallow Rural 250	Fermoy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.15182 -8.67652 OSI Ref: R537 002 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #33.
Carrigmore House (Kinneigh) (H3662) James Lysatt [Lysaght] held a property in fee here, valued at £46, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Bence Jones states that it was built in 1842 by James Lysaght on the site of an earlier house known as Connorville, which had been purchased by Lysaght from the Connor family. In 1837 Lewis had referred to it as "the deserted and dilapidated mansion of the O'Connors." In 1783 Taylor and Skinner had indicated Connorsville as a seat of the Connor family as had Wilson in 1786. An adjacent smaller house, known as Laurel Hill, was held by Adderley Bernard in 1851. Carrigmore House and 312 acres, the estate of James Lysaght, were advertised for sale in July 1853. A lithograph of the house is included in the sale rental. Lyons indicates that the estate was sold privately to James L. Holmes. Carrigmore and Laurel Hill were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in 1876, as part of the sale of the Holmes estate. Donnelly states that it was burnt in October 1920 during the War of Independence when it was the property of James H. Morton. The house is now derelict.	Dromidiclogh West	Kinneigh	Dunmanway	Kinneigh 115	East Carbery (West)	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.73520 -8.99457 OSI Ref: W313541 Discovery map #86. OS Sheet #108.

Archival sources

• Clare County Library : Irish Tourist Association Survey File, Parish of Kilnoe, 1940s, Clare East 12.
• Cork City and County Archives: Confirmation of Grant of Arms to Sidney Royse Lysacht, Mintinna, Newmarket, Co. Cork, 6 Dec 1904. U317
• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Doneraile
• National Archives of Ireland: Abstracts of wills & other documents re Lysaght, Royse, Davis, Honan, Atkins & other families, 17th-19th centuries. Dr E. MacLysaght Collection, Small Accessions Index 52, T.1696, Co.1014, M.372
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Lysaght, 25 June 1863, Vol 68 (58), MRGS 39/034, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Lysaght, 20 June 1876, Vol 124 (17), MRGS 39/056, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: W.B. Scott, solicitor's collection, includes letters of administration with will annexed of Edward Lysaght of Mallow, Co Cork, 1819. Small Accs. Index 76, T.3670
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Macgillysacht, Lysaght & McLysaght of Cos Limerick, Clare & Cork & of Kansas city & Australia, c 1595-1943. GO MS 175: 517-522
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of confirmation of arms, later cancelled, to descendants of William Lysaght of Fort William & to his great grandson Sidney Royce Lysaght of Mintinna, Newmarket, eldest son of Thomas R. Lysaght, second son of William Lysaght of Hazelwood, all in Co Cork with descent from William Lysaght granted in 1678 lands of Feakle, Co Clare, 6 Dec 1904. GO MS 111: 159-160
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of certificate of arms to Edward MacLysaght of Raheen, Tuamgraney, & to descendants of his ancestor Patrick MacLysaght/Lysaght of Tullybrackey, Co Limerick, 6 Feb 1937. GO MS 111E: 53
• National Library of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (Burke), Lysaght, 5 July 1853, Vol 35
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Lysaght of Shandangan, c.1600 -- c.1700Genealogical Office: Ms.162, p.133 .
• National Library of Ireland: McLysaght Family Papers, Acc No 1281, PC 270 [& PC 12,957-12,962]

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. : Fermoy Barony, 23 (Clogheen), 25 (Twopothouse), 136 (Lodge)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Carbery (West) Barony, Union of Dunmanway: 136 (Dromidiclogh West)
• 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] : 285
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 240 (Hazelwood)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 241 (Twopothouse)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 128

Modern printed sources

• Analecta Hibernica: Report on the MacLysaght Papers by Edward MacLysaght. XV (1944), 368-369
• Irish Times: Landed Estates Court sale reports, 21 June 1876, p.6.
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). X, 2nd Series (1909), 289 (Beechmount)
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XX, 2nd Series (1914), 166-179 (Hazlewood)
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XXIV, 2nd Series (1918), 142 (Newtown Lodge, Clogheen)
• Éire-Ireland: DONNELLY, James S. Jnr. Big House burning in county Cork during the Irish revolution, 1920-1921. XLVII, 3&4, Fall-Winter (2012), pp.141-197 [Carrigmore owned by James H. Morton]
• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 58, 150, 237
• BLAKE, Tarquin. Abandoned mansions of Ireland. Cork: Collins Press, 2010.: 60-67 (Carrigmore)
• DE BREFFNY, Brian & FFOLLIOTT, Rosemary. The Houses of Ireland: Domestic architecture from the medieval castle to the Edwardian villa. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1975: 115-116, Footnote on page 236 indicates that Lysaght's journal was in the Hazlewood Papers
• HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 75, 118, 160, 198
• LYONS, Mary C. Illustrated Incumbered Estates, Ireland, 1850-1905. Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1993. : 60-62 (Carrigmore
• MADDEN, Gerard. A History of Tuamgraney & Scariff since earliest times. Tuamgraney: East Clare Heritage, 2000: 144-148
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 742-744