Estate: Heard (Cos Cork, Tipperary & Kerry)

Associated Families

• Heard (Cos Cork, Tipperary & Kerry)

Description

The Heards were a long established county Cork family stated to have arrived with Sir Walter Raleigh and to have received a grant of lands at Bandon. By the early 18th century the main branch of the family was settled at Kinsale. John Isaac Heard (1787-1862 ) of Kinsale and Ballydaly, county Cork, was Member of Parliament for Kinsale 1852-1858. In the 1870s Robert Heard, of Pallastown, Kinsale, owned over 2,000 acres in county Cork and 8,846 in county Tipperary. At the same time Edward Heard of Ballintubbrid owned 391 acres and Francis Heard of Rochfordstown owned 457 acres in the county. Over 700 acres in Kinalea barony, the property of Robert Heard and members of Green family, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in August 1876 and again in January 1877. In 1906, Samuel Thomas Heard owned what had been a portion of the Bland estate in the barony of Dunkerron South, county Kerry. The Heards of Ballintubbrid were a junior branch of the Pallastown family and Samuel Thomas Heard was the second son of Edward Heard of Ballintubbrid.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Rossdohan (H2212) In 1906, Samuel T. Heard, MD, owned this property at Rossdohan, barony of Dunkerron South, when it was valued at £27. Bary states that this house was built in 1875 by Thomas Heard, a surgeon who had retired from India. He died in the early 1920s and the house was burned around that time. There are remains of a later house still visible on the island.	Rossdohan Island	Kilcrohane	Kenmare	Tahilla	Dunkerron South	Kerry	Lat/Lon: 51.80102 -9.86451 OSI Ref: V714626 Discovery map #84. OS Sheet #100.
Riverdale House (H2759) John Heard was leasing this property from the Stawell estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £10. In 1837, Lewis refers to "Riversdale" as the seat of T. Bailey. It is still extant and occupied and is now known as Riversdale House.	Baltinakin	Kilbrittain	Bandon	Kilbrittain 11	East Carbery (East)	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.68247 -8.70276 OSI Ref: W514480 Discovery map #86. OS Sheet #123.
Pallacetown House (H2932) Pallacetown House was held in fee by Samuel P. Townsend at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £14. On the 25-inch map, published in the 1890s, it is labelled Pallastown. In the 1940s the Irish Tourist Association Survey stated that it had previously been a residence of the Heard family but was then occupied by the Jagoes. It is still extant.	Mitchelstown East	Clontead	Kinsale	Kinsale Rural 207	Kinsale	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.72937 -8.49505 OSI Ref: W658531 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #112.
Ballintubbrid House (H3472) Ballintobrid, Middleton, was the home of William Weekes in 1814. By 1837 it was the home of the Heard family and occupied and held by Edward Heard in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The house was valued at £13. The original house is not extant.	Ballintubbrid East	Mogeesha	Middleton	Middleton Rural 268	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.88839 -8.22806 OSI Ref: W843 707 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #76.
Lackamore Lodge (H4669) A late 19th century house valued at £13+ in 1906 and held by the representatives of Robert Heard. This building was located just to the south of a police barrack and is now a ruin.	Tooreenbrien Upper	Kilvellane	Nenagh	Abington	Owney and Arra	Tipperary	Lat/Lon: 52.69532 -8.30324 OSI Ref: R795 605 Discovery map #59. OS Sheet #38.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Clontead
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Green, Heard & Webb, 30 August 1876, Vol 125, MRGS 39/057, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Green, Heard & Webb, 30 January 1877, Vol 127, MRGS 39/057, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Library of Ireland: Draft confirmation of arms to Samuel Heard of Rossdohan, with draft pedigree, c.1650-1750. Genealogical Office Ms.803, 2.
• National Library of Ireland: Draft pedigree and notes on family of Heard of Kinsale and Bandon in Co. Cork, 1619 -- 1763. Genealogical Office: Ms.804, p.23
• National Library of Ireland: Detailed abstracts of wills of Heard of Kinsale, Co. Cork, of Cork City and Dublin City, 1758 - 1833. Genealogical Office: Ms.139, pp.240-3 & 248 & 251
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of confirmation of arms to the descendants of John Heard, Sovereign of Kinsale in 1734 and to his great great grandson, Samuel Thomas Heard of Rossdohan, Co. Kerry, son of Edward Heard of Ballintubber, Co. Cork, June 21, 1899. Genealogical Office: Ms.111, pp.46-7

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Carbery (East) Barony: 72 (Baltinakin
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barrymore Barony, 185 (Ballintubbrid)
• BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.215
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 29 (Ballintobrid - William Weekes)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 375 (Ballintobber)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 254 (Rossdohan), 275 (Tooreenbrien Upper)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 245 (Ballintubbrid East)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 125 (County Cork), 163 (County Tipperary)
• SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) : xxxii, 221 (Rossdohan)

Modern printed sources

• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 254-255
• Bary, Valerie. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes of some Houses of Kerry Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1994. : 213