Estate: Shuldham/Shouldham

Associated Families

• Barrington (Glenstal) (Baronet)
• Apjohn (Pallas House)
• Shuldham/Shouldham
• Cox (Cork & Kilkenny)

Description

The Shuldhams were originally from Norfolk. In the early 18th century Edmond Shuldham of Ardtully, county Kerry married Mary MacCarthy, daughter and heiress of MacCarthy Spaniagh of Dunmanway, county Cork. Their eldest son, Edmond Shuldham, held lands in the counties of Cork, Limerick and in the city of Dublin. Many members of the family followed military careers. Arthur Lemuel Shuldham of Dunmanyway, and of Pallas Green, county Limerick, had a son Edmond William who was Quarter Master General at Bombay for a number of years. At the time of Griffith's Valuation General Shuldham owned an estate in the parishes of Oola and Tuoghcluggin, barony of Coonagh, county Limerick. Thomas Apjohn of Pallas was agent for the Shuldhams circa 1840. In 1851, Maj. Gen. Edmund Anderson Shuldham was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Drinagh, Fanlobbus and Kilmichael, barony of East Carbery, county Cork. His estate in county Cork in the 1870s amounted to over 13,000 acres.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Coolkellure House (Hill Farm) (H3717) Held in fee by Major General Shuldham in 1851 when it was valued at almost £17. It is labelled Hill Farm on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map but as Coolkellure House on the 25-inch edition of the 1890s. It is still extant and part of a large farm.The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage describes it as a late Victorian House designed by Henry Hill. In 1943 the Irish Tourist Association Survey noted that the original house had burned down in 1920 and that this house replaced it.	Coolkellure	Fanlobbus	Dunmanway	Garrown 125	East Carbery (West)	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.72708 -9.19125 OSI Ref: W177534 Discovery map #85. OS Sheet #107.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Dunmanway
• 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 Library of Ireland: Maps of the estate of A. L. Shuldman in the barony of Carbery, Co. Cork, Surveyed by Richard Manning. Folio volume with 16 maps, coloured, and names of tenants, 1801-3. Ms. 3025
• University College Cork, Boole Library Archives: Deed of Settlement made between George Evans, 7th Baron Carbery, Castle Freke, Co. Cork, & Harriet Maria Catherine, Baroness Carbery (his wife), listing the trusts and agreements involved in the marriage between Baron Carbery & Harriet Shuldham in the previous August, 4 Nov 1852. IE BL/SC/CD/7

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. : East Carbery (West) Barony: 76 (Coolkellure)
• 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] : 412
• ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, county Limerick: Parish of Oola, V, 234-266
• 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'.: 379
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 134

Modern printed sources

• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 549-550