Estate: Payne

Associated Families

• Payne

Description

Reverend Somers Payne was among the principal lessors in the parish of Inishannon at the time of Griffith's Valuation. His wife was Frances Caroline Butson whose father held estates at Clonfert, county Galway. Members of the Payne family owned over 1500 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. John Warren Payne was agent on the Bantry estate in the mid 19th century.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Highfort (H2734) Reverend Somers Payne was leasing this property from Anne Nash at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £12. There is an extant house at the site which the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage asserts was built c.1880.	Rockfort	Brinny	Bandon	Brinny 3	East Carbery (East)	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.78242 -8.67243 OSI Ref: W536591 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #97.
Danesfort (Inishannon) (H3051) Rev. Somers Payne was leasing this house from John Phibbs at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £10. Now a care facility run by Brothers of Charity services.	Dunkeeran	Inishannon	Bandon	Ballymurphy 5	Kinalea	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.78516 -8.66522 OSI Ref: W541594 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #97.
Upton (H3073) Reverend Somers Payne held this property in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £45. Lewis names the seat of Reverend Payne as "Upton" in 1837. Noted by Leet as the seat of W.L. Beaufort in 1814. James Welply was resident in the 1870s. In 1942 the Irish Tourist Association survey noted that a sister of the Sheares brothers, executed as United Irishmen, was married into the Payne family and that the brothers were in the habit of visiting Upton. This property is still extant and run as a facility providing nursing care services.	Garryhankard	Knockavilly	Bandon	Brinny 3	Kinalea	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.79586 -8.68133 OSI Ref: W530606 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #96.

Archival sources

• Cork City and County Archives: U013: Bantry Estate Accounts, 1825-26: Earl of Bantry in account with Rev. S. Payne, 1825-26. MS copy by P. O Maidin of MS 428 in GEH. OFF
• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Innishannon
• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Innishannon
• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Innishannon
• National Archives of Ireland: Photocopied valuations of the estates of J. Barter, R.A. Orpen, Anna Perrier, Rev Somers Payne, J. Mulholland & reps of late John Hassett, 1887-1889. 111/101(ii)
• National Library of Ireland: Correspondence, mainly with A. W. Payne, agent, in respect of the estates of the Earl of Bantry in Co. Cork, together with financial accounts, eviction notices, etc., relating to the estates 1840 - 1881. Earl of Bantry Papers, Ms. 8599
• University College Cork, Boole Library Archives: Bantry Estate Collection, includes documents re John Warren Payne & the Rev Somers Payne, 1835-1853. IE BL/EP/B

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Carbery (East) Barony: 37 (Rockfort)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kinalea Barony, 35 (Dunkeeran), 56 (Garryhankard)
• 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] : 363
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Brinny Parish, Vol.I, 225.
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 132

Modern printed sources