Estate: Cox (Ballynoe)

Associated Families

• Cox (Ballynoe)

Description

Burke's (1886) records Robert Cox having received a grant of lands at Ballynoe, county Limerick, in 1637. Ballynoe was in the possession of the Cox family for at least the following two and a half centuries. William Cox held the townland of Ballynoe in the parish of Ballingarry, barony of Connello Upper, county Limerick, from the Court of Chancery, at the time of Griffith's Valuation and the representatives of William Cox held a townland in the parish of Kilcornan, barony of Kenry. Lands belonging to William Cox mainly in the barony of Orrery and Kilmore, county Cork but also in county Limerick were advertised for sale in February 1851 and lands in the baronies of Kenry and Connello Upper in February 1852 and November 1853 respectively. Griffith's Valuation records him holding lands in the parishes of Rathgoggan and Shandrum, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, county Cork. In the 1870s William Cox of Ballynoe owned 843 acres in the county and Robert H. Cox of Ballyneale owned 408 acres. In May 1886 William Cox's property at Ballynoe was offered for sale in the Land Judges' Court but the sale was adjourned due to absence of bidding.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ballynoe (H2473) An 18th century house built by the Cox family. This house valued at £39 was the home of William Cox in the 1850s and 1870s. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was held from the Court of Chancery. Bence Jones records this house as now derelict. Described as the Irish Tourist Association surveyor in 1944 as a "grand" Georgian house but in a very bad state of repair.	Ballynoe	Ballingarry	Croom	Ballynoe 10	Connello Upper	Limerick	Lat/Lon: 52.44022 -8.83535 OSI Ref: R432 324 Discovery map #65. OS Sheet #38.
Ballyneale (H2494) Bence Jones writes of this house having an early 19th century appearance. Occupied by John Cox and held from the Honourable John Massy in the early 1850s. The buildings were valued at £13+. At the end of the 20th century this house was the home of Lewis Glucksman. Sold by the Glucksmans in 1998. In 2008 it was placed on the market again by its current owner David Pearl for 10,000,000 euro. see http://www.michaelhdaniels.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=propdetails&Prop_RefId=39	Ballyneale	Ballingarry	Croom	Ballynoe 10	Connello Upper	Limerick	Lat/Lon: 52.44474 -8.83103 OSI Ref: R435 329 Discovery map #65. OS Sheet #38.
Springfort (H3842) Dating from the very early 18th century, Springfort was the home of the Vowell family in the 18th century but Mr Cox is recorded as the proprietor in the late 1770s. By 1837 the Reverend Jonathan Bruce was resident. In the early 1850s William Carroll occupied the house holding the property from William Cox. The buildings were valued at £11+. This house was still extant in the 1980s when it was the home of the Cagneys.	Garrynagranoge	Rathgoggan	Kilmallock	Springfort 188	Orrery & Kilmore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.33676 -8.71309 OSI Ref: R514 208 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #2.

Archival sources

• Limerick Studies Department, Dooradoyle: Irish Tourist Association Survey file for parish of Ballingarry, barony of Connello Upper, 1944. Limerick West 5
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Cox, 19 July 1850, Vol 2 (26), MRGS 39/001, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Cox, 6 Feb 1852, Vol 13 (39), MRGS 39/006, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Cox, 10 Dec 1852, Vol 19 (41), MRGS 39/009, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Cox, 4 Nov 1853, Vol 24 (27), MRGS 39/010, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of confirmation of arms to descendants of Robert Cox who was granted the lands of Ballynoe & Ballyscanlon, Co Limerick in 1637 & to his descendant William Cox of Ballynoe, Apr 1839. GO MS107:156-157
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Cox of Ballynoe & of Plymouth, Devon, 1637-1838. GO MS 174:8-10

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 Connello Upper, 6 (Ballynoe)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Orrery and Kilmore, 219 (Garrynagranoge)
• 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] : 104
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 113-114 (Ballyno Cox & Ballynail)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland, 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 188
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 147
• 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: 184 (Springfort)

Modern printed sources

• Irish Ancestor: CUSSEN, Robert. Entries from Samuel Cox’s Family Bible. V (1973), 27-28
• Irish Times: Land Judges' Court sale reports, 8 May 1886, p.3
• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 27 (Ballyneale & Ballynoe)
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: I, 419-420
• GLIN, Knight of, GRIFFIN, D. J. & ROBINSON, N.K (eds). Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive/Irish Georgian Society, 1989. : 101 (Ballynoe)
• HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 336
• MULLIGAN, Kevin. Vain transitory splendours: the Irish country house and the art of John Nankivell. Dublin: Irish Georgian Society, 2018. : Ballynoe, pp.36-37.
• MULLIGAN, Kevin. Vain transitory splendours: the Irish country house and the art of John Nankivell. Dublin: Irish Georgian Society, 2018. : Ballynoe, pp.36-37.