Estate: Deane

Associated Families

• Fitzmaurice (Earl of Kerry) (Earl of Kerry)
• Deane (Baron Muskerry)
• Chinnery (Baronet)
• Symes

Description

Matthew Deane came to Ireland in the mid 17th century and purchased lands in county Cork. He was made a baronet in 1709. In 1775 his descendant, Sir Robert Tilson Deane, (created Baron Muskerry in 1781), married Anne, sole heir to her grandfather John Fitzmaurice of Springfield Castle, county Limerick. John Fitzmaurice was a nephew of Thomas Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry, ancestor of the Marquis of Lansdowne. Robert Tilson Fitzmaurice Deane, grandson of Robert and Anne, married Elizabeth Geraldine Grogan Morgan of Johnstown Castle, county Wexford and assumed the additional name of Morgan. Their son, Hamilton Matthew Tilson Fitzmaurice Deane-Morgan, succeeded his grandfather as 4th Baron Muskerry in 1868. In his entry for the parish of Mourneabbey, Lewis refers to the "late Lord Muskerry" (1st Baron) having built "a splendid mansion in the vicinity on which he is said to have expended upwards of £30,000; but before it was inhabited it was taken down and the materials sold''. Beaufort also refers to this mansion which had been dismantled by 1788. It was at Dromore, parish of Kilshannig. Griffith's Valuation records Lord Muskerry holding land in the parishes of Killagholehane, Killeedy and Mahoonagh, barony of Glenquin and Dromcolleher, barony of Connello Upper, county Limerick and in the barony of Orrery and Kilmore, county Cork including parishes of Shandrum and Kilbolane. In July 1864 lands in the baronies of Glenquin, Smallcounty, county Limerick and West Muskerry, county Cork and Maguinihy, county Kerry, the estate of Lord Muskerry and Maria Chinnery were advertised for sale. Maria Chinnery would appear to be the daughter of Sir Broderick Chinnery, baronet, of county Cork. These lands were purchased by Messers. Evans, Nagle and Prin. In the 1870s Lord Muskerry owned 3,161 acres in county Limerick, 742 acres in county Tipperary, 912 acres in county Wexford and 28 acres in county Clare. The rental of Barnagurrane, 242 acres in the barony of Connello Upper, the estate of Eugene Guilford Finnerty, was advertised for sale in November 1881. Lord Muskerry was the tenant and this property adjoined his Springfield Castle demesne. His wife, Elizabeth Grogan Deane Morgan, was the owner of over 350 acres in county Waterford in the 1870s as well as extensive estates in counties Kilkenny and Wexford.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Springfield Castle (H2383) Originally a Fitzmaurice residence adjoining a tower-house of the Fitzgeralds, this house passed by a marriage in 1775 to the Deane family, Lords Muskerry. It became their main residence in the late 18th century and throughout the 19th century. In 1786 Wilson refers to it as " a very fine seat with extensive demesnes". At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Honourable Robert Fitzmaurice Deane was residing at Springfield which was valued at £45. The house was burnt in 1923 and a 19th Gothic wing was made into a new house, which may now be rented as self catering accommodation.	Springfield	Killagholehane	Newcastle	Broadford 104	Glenquin	Limerick	Lat/Lon: 52.35212 -8.95552 OSI Ref: R349 227 Discovery map #72. OS Sheet #54.
Old Dromore (H2788) Smith refers to the "pleasant seat" of Sir Matthew Deane, "lately rebuilt, with an elegant front of hewn stone". A larger house built in the early 1780s was dismantled almost as soon as it was built by Sir Robert Deane, lst Baron Muskerry. Hajba writes that Jeremiah and Richard Gifford Campion occupied Dromore Old in the last decade of the 18th century. A house valued at £23 in the mid 19th century was the home of the Williamson family located on the Purcell estate. Occupied by U[sher] Williamson in 1814, Reverend Benjamin Williamson in 1837 and in the early 1850s. In 1894 Slater refers to it as the residence of Mrs. Williamson. In the latter half of the 20th century the home of the Hegartys. A house is still extant at Dromore.	Dromore North	Kilshannig	Kanturk	Kilshannig 248	Duhallow	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.09266 -8.64790 OSI Ref: W556 936 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #42.
Gortskagh (H3837) No house of more than £5 valuation is recorded in Griffith's Valuation in Gortskagh except the glebe house at £26. This house was occupied by Reverend William Bunbury who held the property from John Courtenay. The Deane connection with Gortskagh commenced with the marriage in 1871 of Honourable Matthew J.H.F. Deane, uncle of the 4th Baron Muskerry, with Maria, daughter of Reverend William Bunbury. The Deanes sold the house to the Binchy family in the 1890s. Home of the Foley family in the early 21st century.	Gortskagh	Shandrum	Kilmallock	Charleville 186	Orrery & Kilmore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.36192 -8.71349 OSI Ref: R514 236 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #2.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey, Parishes of Charleville and Glantane
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Muskerry & Chinnery, 1 July 1864, Vol 73 (58) & 24 Mar 1865, Vol 75 (70), MRGS 39/036, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Finnerty, 8 Nov 1881, Vol 142 (47), MRGS 39/063, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Library of Ireland: O'Brien of Cahirmoyle Papers, estate & family papers, 18th-19th centuries, include records re the Deane family. Collection List 64
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of royal licence to Robert Fitzmaurice Tilson Deane of Springfield Castle, to take the name of Morgan in addition to & after that of Deane & to quarter Morgan, 14 Dec 1854. GO MS 152:209-213
• National Library of Ireland: Deeds relating to Garraney-carney, Clondrohid, Co. Cork; including leases by Hollow Sword Blade Company to Wm. Lombard and by Sir Matthew Deane to James Lombard; sale by Lord Muskerry to Rev. Robert Dring in trust for Rev. Edmond Lombard; 1709 - 1816. D. 26,335-352
• Private Possession: Muskerry Papers. Contact: Mr and the Hon Mrs Jonathon Sykes (nee Deane), Springfield Castle, Broadford, Co Limerick.

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. : Barony of Glenquin, 34 (Springfield)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Orrery & Kilmore Barony, 110 (Gortskagh)
• BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.327.
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage....privy councillors and knights. London: Harrison, 1894. : 1032
• 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] : 333
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 359 (Springfield-Castle)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 121 & 426 (Springfield), 397 (parish of Mourneabbey)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 269 (Springfield)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland, 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix III. Abstracts of the conveyances from the trustees of the Forfeited Estates and Interests in Ireland in 1688'.: 351
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 167
• SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) : xxxiii, 228 (Springfield Castle)
• SMITH, Charles, M.D. The ancient and present state of the county and city of Cork. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical and topographical description thereof . First published 1750. This edition published Cork: John Connor, 1815: I, 301
• 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: 185 (Springfield)
• WILSON, William. The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 361 (Springfield)

Modern printed sources

• Irish Times: Landed Estates Court sales, 25 March 1865, p.3
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: Journal of the Rev. D.A. Beaufort, 1788. 2nd Series, XI (1905), 36
• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 228 (Old Dromore), 263 (Springfield)
• GLIN, Knight of, GRIFFIN, D. J. & ROBINSON, N.K (eds). Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive/Irish Georgian Society, 1989. : 104
• HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 186 (Gortskagh)
• MALCOMSON, A.P.W. The Pursuit of the Heiress: Aristocratic Marriage in Ireland, 1740-1840. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006: 71
• MOSLEY, Charles (ed). Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999: II, 2046