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House Name / Description | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref |
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At the time of Griffith's Valuation, John Beecher held two substantial properties in fee at Maulbrack. They were purchased in 1703 by Henry Beecher from the trustees for forfeited estates. In the early 1850s the larger was valued at £36 10s. In 1837 Lewis and Leet in 1814, had noted Hollybrook as the seat of Richard Beecher. It was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in 1851 and again in February 1852 and April 1858, when the sale notice included a lithograph and floor plan of the house. A plan of the demesne is also included. This house was also the seat of the Beecher family in the late 1770s and noted by Wilson as the seat of an earlier John Becher in 1786. Colonel Anthony Morgan was the owner of a property valued at £150 here in 1906 and The O'Donovan was resident in the mid 20th century. The original house is not extant but a later house exists at the site. |
Maulbrack | Abbeystrowry | Skibbereen | Skibbereen Rural 309 | West Carbery (East) | Cork |
Lat/Lon:
51.57528 -9.26518 OSI Ref: W123366 Discovery map #89. OS Sheet #141. |
At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Rev. Horace Townsend was leasing this property from The O'Donovan's estate when it was valued at £12 15s. In 1837 Lewis had noted it as the seat of R.B. Townsend. It is still extant and occupied. |
Carrigfadda | Abbeystrowry | Skibbereen | Skibbereen Rural 309 | West Carbery (East) | Cork |
Lat/Lon:
51.54021 -9.26709 OSI Ref: W121327 Discovery map #89. OS Sheet #141. |
Thomas Marmion was leasing this property to Avisa Clarke at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £11 10s. The house at this site is labelled Russagh Cottage on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map but as Rosebank on the 25-inch map of the 1890s.The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage states that the current house was built by the O'Donovan family in the 1860s as a dower house for Liss Ard House nearby. It is still extant and occupied. |
Russagh | Abbeystrowry | Skibbereen | Skibbereen Rural 309 | West Carbury (East) | Cork |
Lat/Lon:
51.53498 -9.25109 OSI Ref: W132321 Discovery map #89. OS Sheet #141. |
Edward Powell held this property in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £21. Lewis describes it as the residence of Major Powell in 1837. In the 1770s it was the seat of an O'Donovan family. Lt. Col. Henry Powell was the owner in 1906 when it was valued at £21. By 1945 the Irish Tourist Association Survey reported that it was the home of the O'Callaghan family who "had bought it from the Powells". Bawnlahan is still extant and occupied. |
Bawnlahan | Myross | Skibbereen | Castlehaven South 315 | West Carbery (East) | Cork |
Lat/Lon:
51.56020 -9.15948 OSI Ref: W196348 Discovery map #89. OS Sheet #142. |
Squince House
(H2655)
At the time of Griffith's Valuation, John F. Townsend was leasing this property to Alexander Donovan, when it was valued at £9 10s. It is described as "in ruins" on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s. In 1945 the Irish Tourist Association Survey noted that traces of the old walls and gardens of the O'Donovan property could still be seen but that the site was now occupied by a modern two-storey house, the residence of the Brown family. |
Myross | Myross | Skibbereen | Myross 321 | West Carbery (East) | Cork |
Lat/Lon:
51.53075 -9.13712 OSI Ref: W211315 Discovery map #89. OS Sheet #142. |
Built in the later nineteenth century Lissard was owned by The O'Donovan and valued at £90 in 1906. The Irish Tourist Association survey of 1943 mentioned that it was then the property of John Connolly. It is still extant and offered as luxury accommodation. The gardens are open to the public. See www.lissardestate.com. |
Russagh | Abbeystrowry | Skibbereen | Skibbereen Rural 309 | West Carbery (East) | Cork |
Lat/Lon:
51.52868 -9.25236 OSI Ref: W131314 Discovery map #89. OS Sheet #142. |
Montpellier
(H3796)
A house occupied by the Reverend Morgan O'Donovan in 1837 and by Morgan O'Donovan in the early 1850s. The house was held in fee by the O'Donovans and was valued at £55. There is no trace of this house now as modern development has taken place in the area. |
Castletreasure | Carrigaline | Cork | Douglas 98 | Cork | Cork |
Lat/Lon:
51.86443 -8.43700 OSI Ref: W699 681 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #86. |
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