Estate: Hodder (Hoddersfield)

Associated Families

• Hodder (Hoddersfield)

Description

A Dorset family who settled in county Cork in the mid 17th century. ''Burke's Irish Family Records'' refers to William Hodder who obtained a grant of 7,365 acres in that county including Ringabrow or Hoddersfield. William's brother John received a grant of 3,729 acres in 1666 and left his estate to his nephew. From William's second son Francis descend the Hodders of Hoddersfield. Francis Hodder's great grandson William Hodder died in 1787 and left his estates to his nephew William Henry Moore who took the additional name of Hodder. Griffith's Valuation records W.H.M. Hodder holding land in the parishes of Kilkeedy, barony of Pubblebrien, county Limerick and Nohaval, barony of Kinalea, county Cork. Samuel Hodder was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Ballyfoyle and Tracton at the same time. In the 1870s William H.M. Hodder of Hoddersfield owned 1,885 acres in county Cork and 414 acres in county Limerick. The second son of William H. Moore Hodder was the Reverend Henry Theophilus, rector of Carrigrohane, county Cork, who married Sarah Forster in 1849. In the 1870s Mrs Sarah Moore Hodder of Parkmore, Ballincollig, county Cork, is recorded as owner of 763 acres in county Clare. At the same time Francis Hodder of Fountainstown owned 787 acres, Captain Samuel Hodder of Rinuabella owned 1,090 acres and Colonel W.H.M. Hodder of Hoddersfield owned 1,885 acres in county Cork.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Frankfort (H3050) Francis Sealy was leasing this property from F. Westcott at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £19 though Lewis refers to "Woodview" as the seat of F. Sealy in 1837 and occupied by Oliver Ellard in 1814. Local sources indicate that this house was built by the Hodder family. See www.bandon-genealogy.com. More recently the Inishannon House Hotel.	Coolmoreen	Inishannon	Bandon	Inishannon 6	Kinalea	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.75919 -8.64746 OSI Ref: W553565 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #97.
Fountainstown (H3061) Francis Hodder was leasing this property to George Hodder at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £24. In 1837 Lewis referred to Fountainstown as the seat of G. Hodder. Local sources indicate that this house originally belonged to the Roche family whose lands the Hodders were granted and that the oldest part of Fountainstown House was the original Roche property. In the 1940s the Irish Tourist Association Survey noted that it was listed in the Association's directory of hotels. Fountainstown is still extant and occupied.	Fountainstown	Kilpatrick	Kinsale	Carrigaline 199	Kinalea	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.77851 -8.32314 OSI Ref: W777585 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #99.
Ringabella (H3087) Samuel Hodder held this property in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £25. Lewis refers to it as the seat of S.A. Austin in 1837. In 1942 the Irish Tourist Association Survey noted that had been a residence of the Austins but was then owned by the McCarthy family. Ringabella is still extant and occupied.	Ringabella	Tracton	Kinsale	Farranbrien 191	Kinalea	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.76866 -8.30859 OSI Ref: W787574 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #99.
Ballea Castle (H3116) Francis Hodder held this property in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £24 10s. Lewis also refers to it as his seat in 1837. Local sources suggest that It was originally built by the McCarthy family and later acquired by the Hodders. In the 1940s the Irish Tourist Association survey refers to it as being occupied by F. Dorman, retired engineer, and that it was the oldest occupied castle in Éire. Though much altered over the years, it is still extant and occupied.	Ballea	Liscleary	Kinsale	Liscleary 201	Kerrycurrihy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.81954 -8.42351 OSI Ref: W708631 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #86, 98.
Hoddersfield (H3161) Lewis refers to Hoddersfield as the seat of Col. Hodder in 1837 and held in fee by William H. Hodder in 1850. The house was then valued at £95. In 1894 Slater referred to it as the seat of William Hodder. In the 1940s the Irish Tourist Association noted that it was the residence of B Nicholson, who had bought the property from the Hodders and that the Library and other Hodder materials remained intact at the house. Hoddersfield is now a roofless ruin.	Hoddersfield	Templebreedy	Kinsale	Templebreedy 202	Kerrycurrihy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.79471 -8.31456 OSI Ref: W783603 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #99.
Shanballymore (H3316) The seat of a branch of the Roberts family, Hodder Roberts was resident in 1814 and Watkins Roberts in 1837. The residence of John Roberts in the early 1850s, held from William W.M. Hodder and valued at £23. The property remained in Roberts possession until 1884 when it was sold to the O'Keeffe family who still reside there.	Shanballymore Lower	Templeroan	Mallow	Shanballymore 243	Fermoy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.21212 -8.47552 OSI Ref: R675 068 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #26.
Bushy Park (H3400) Hajba writes that Gifford Campion, born at Leitrim, acquired the lands of Bushy Park in the mid 18th century and that his son Richard Gifford Campion possibly built the house in the late 18th century. Bushy Park, Rathcormack, was occupied by John Walsh in 1814 and by Richard G. Campion in the early 1850s. The buildings were valued at £18.15 shillings and held from Major Heliger Lloyd. Occupied by William Moore Hodder in 1906. This house is still a residence.	Bushy Park	Kilshanahan	Fermoy	Watergrasshill 151	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.05081 -8.34114 OSI Ref: W766 888 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #44.
Rockview (Inch) (H3644) In 1837 Lewis refers to the "very pretty residence of Mr Fitzgerald" proprietor of the extensive limestone quarries at Carrigacrump. The house was named Rockview on the first Ordnance Survey map. Teresa Fitzgerald was the occupier in the early 1850s holding the property from Colonel William H.M. Hodder, the buildings were valued at £15. Teresa Fitzgerald (nee Coppinger of Rosmore) married James Fitzgerald and they had a son Maurice and daughters Teresa, Mary etc see ''The Barrys of County Cork''. Margaret Fitzgerald of Carrigacrump owned 83 acres in the 1870s. Her estate at Rockview was advertised for sale a number of time in the mid 1870s. There is still an extant house at the site.	Carrigacrump	Inch	Middleton	Inch 258	Imokilly	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.84358 -8.14512 OSI Ref: W900 657 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #88.

Archival sources

• Clare County Archives: McMahon Collection, IE CLCCA/PP/EST/1
• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association survey files, Parishes of Crosshaven, Carrigaline and Tracton.
• National Archives of Ireland: W.B. Scott, solicitor's collection, contains many records re land transactions in Cos Clare, Limerick & Cork, 18th-19th centuries, including references to this family. Small Accs Index 76
• National Archives of Ireland: William D. Mockler, 59 South Mall, Cork, solicitor's collection re property in Cork Co & City, 1667-1920, includes reference to this family. Small Accs Index 87, T.3924-3998, Co 2559-2568, D.15326-15661, M.1444-1449
• National Archives of Ireland: Hoey & Denning, solicitors collection, includes original will of Francis Hodder of Cork, merchant, 23 Jan 1772. Small Accs Index 99, T.5957
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Fitzgerald, 12 July 1873, Vol 111 (18), 16 Jan 1874, Vol 113 (2), 23 Oct 1875, Vol 121 (5), MRGS 39/051, 39/052 & 39/055, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Map of the estate of John T. Hodder, of Ballea Castle, in Killinchone, Co. Cork, n.d. M.1448
• National Library of Ireland: Detailed abstract of will of Francis Hodder of Cork, 1772. GO MS 142, pp.20-1
• National Library of Ireland: Detailed abstract of will of William Hodder of Hoddersfield, Co. Cork, 1725. GO MS 142, p.61
• National Library of Ireland: Detailed abstracts of wills of Hodder of Ballymartle, Renebrow, Hoddersfield in Co. Cork and City of Cork, 1655 -- 1772. GO MS 141, pp.13-4
• National Library of Ireland: Draft pedigree of family of Hodder, of Bridgetown and Hoddersfield and Ballinterry, Dunory, Ballea Castle, all in Co. Cork, with pedigrees of Newenham and Wesley of Dangan, c.1600--c.1780. GO MS 803, p.13
• National Library of Ireland: Recovery in respect of lands at Dunmahon, Killeagh, Curraghmore and elsewhere in Co. Cork, in which Richard Burke is demandant, Rowland Delaghoyde and William Fennesey tenants and John Hodder vouchee 28 Nov., 1746. D 27,270
• Private Possession: 17th - 19th century papers. Enquiries to National Library of Ireland.
• Private Possession: Draft settlement of the Hodder family estates, 1822, in the possession of Miss Phyllis Hodder, Fountainstown House, Co Cork in 1975, see James S. Donnelly's book

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. : Kinalea Barony,47 (Fountainstown) 80 (Ringabella)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kerrycurrihy Barony, 72 (Hoddersfield)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 182 (Shanballymore)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Imokilly Barony, 158 (Carrigacrump)
• 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] : 220, 325
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.II, 197. Kilpatrick Parish
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 13 (Carrigacrump - Mr Fitzgerald)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 237 (Bushypark)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland, 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 66, 85, 201
• 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'.: 378, 380
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 110, 126,150
• SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) : xxviii, 314 (Hoddersfield)

Modern printed sources

• BARRY, Rev E. Records of the Barrys of County Cork. Cork: Guy & Co, 1902: 65
• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 16 (Ballea Castle)
• BROWNE, McGOUGH & ROBERTS (eds). Tracton: where the abbey lies low. ( Tracton, county Cork, 2007): Kate Lewis. The Hodder estates. pp. 183-197.
• DONNELLY, James S., Jr. The land and the people of nineteenth-century Cork. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1975: 388 & index
• HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 330
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 594-596
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Hodder Papers: deeds, including wills, leases & statements of title, relating to members of the family of Hodder and their property at Fountainstown, Crosshaven, Co. Cork, 1666, 1699, 18-19th c. (In the possession of Miss P.Hodder, Fountainstown, Crosshaven, Co. Cork). No. 475
• Ó MURCHADHA, Diarmuid. History of Crosshaven and the parish of Templebreedy. Cork: Cork Historical Guides Committee, 1967): 35-38