Estate: Russell (Mount Russell & Glanmore)

Associated Families

• Shannon (Limerick)
• Russell (Mount Russell)

Description

In the late 18th century the Russells held an estate on both sides of the Limerick and Cork county border and had residences at Mount Russell, Kilmallock, county Limerick and Ballinaboulia (Glanmore), Charleville, county Cork. Michael Russell and his wife Deborah Sarsfield had a son Patrick who, in 1804, married Theresa Morrogh. Their son, James Russell of Mount Russell, married Maria, daughter of Pierce Shannon of Limerick, and had six sons and five daughters. The county Limerick estate of the Russells was in the parishes of Effin and Ballingaddy, barony of Coshlea and Mahoonagh, barony of Glenquin and their county Cork estate was in the parish of Ballyhay, barony of Fermoy. In July 1853 over 2,000 acres in the barony of Costlea, the estate of James Russell, was advertised for sale. Mount Russell was held on a lease from Chidley Coote to Michael Russell dated 1797. The Irish Tourist Association survey of the 1940s states that the property at Ballynaboola was part of a grant of land to Sir Henry Tynte in 1666 and that his descendants lived there until the end of the eighteenth century. Michael Russell of Glanmore married Marianne Clanchy and had two sons and two daughters. In the 1870s Patrick Russell owned 1,241 acres in county Limerick and his brother, Michael Russell of Glenmore, owned 450 acres in county Cork. Michael Russell and his wife Deborah also had a daughter Catherine who married Garret Maume and the estate of their sons, Garrett and Richard Russell Maume, 419 acres at Ballinoe in the barony of Upper Connello, was advertised for sale in April 1853.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Mount Russell (H2584) The home of James Russell in 1837 and at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The buildings were valued at £30 and James Russell held the property and 750 acres in fee. It is labelled as "in ruins" on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of the 1890s and nothing now remains.	Mountrussell	Ballingaddy	Kilmallock	Ballymacshaneboy 41	Coshlea	Limerick	Lat/Lon: 52.33125 -8.56922 OSI Ref: R612 201 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #55.
Glanmore (H3213) A Russell home in the 19th century, Hajba writes that it was bought by Michael Russell of Mount Russell from the Tynte family in 1815. Occupied by Michael Russell at the time of Griffith's Valuation it was held by him in fee. The buildings were valued at £24. The family were still resident in the mid 20th century and the house is still extant. It is labelled Ballynaboola House on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map but as Glanmore on the 25-inch edition of the 1890s.	Ballynaboola West	Ballyhay	Mallow	Ardskeagh 185	Fermoy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.31652 -8.63650 OSI Ref: R566 185 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #8.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association survey files, Parish of Ballyhea
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Maume, 14 Apr 1853, Vol 20 (70), MRGS 39/009, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Library of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (Burke), Russell, 14 July 1853, Vol 35

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Coshlea, 13 (Mount Russell)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 7 (Ballynaboola West)
• 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] : 397
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 113 (Mount-Russell)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 133 & 153

Modern printed sources

• HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 178
• PINE, L.G. (ed). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. 4th ed. London: Burke's Peerage, 1958.: 615