Estate: O'Leary (Cork)

Associated Families

• O'Leary (Cork)

Description

In the mid 19th century Patrick O'Leary held land in the parish of Tullylease, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, and Richard O'Leary in the parish of Inchigeelagh, barony of West Muskerry, county Cork. Goodwin O'Leary, who held lands in the parish of Grenagh, barony of Barretts, county Cork, was the proprietor of over 500 acres in county Kerry in the 1870s. These county Kerry lands were in the parish of Kilcummin.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Templemary (H2894) A house located on the Purcell estate, occupied by Purcell esq in the 1770s and 1780s, by John Purcell in 1814, by J. O'Leary in 1837 and by Kilner R. Woods in the early 1850s who held it from Wills George Crofts. The house was valued at £23+ at this time. The Fuges occupied the house in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The house was valued at £26 in 1906. The Irish Tourist Association survey in the 1940s described it as "a spacious three-storey house with a cellar". A new house now stands on the site.	Templemary	Buttevant	Mallow	Templemary 236	Orrery and Kilmore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.22785 -8.73915 OSI Ref: R495 087 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #16.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey, Parish of Buttevant [Templemary]

Contemporary printed sources

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

• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 235 (Templemary)
• 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: 75.

Modern printed sources

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