Estate: Lombard (Lombardstown)

Associated Families

• Hunt (Kilshannig)
• Lombard (Lombardstown)
• Delacour

Description

The Lombards were located in county Cork from at least the mid 17th century. In 1724 James Lombard married Mary, daughter of Jame Uniancke of Mount Uniacke, and they later built and went to live at Lombardstown in the parish of Kilshannig, barony of Duhallow, county Cork. They had a son, Reverend Edmund Lombard, who in turn had a son, Captain Edmund Lombard. The Captain bought Danesfort from his brother-in-law, James Butler Stopford and was living there in the 1830s. In 1786, another James Lombard of Lombardstown married Anne Becher and was killed in 1799 in county Wexford. He left four children, all daughters and in the 1850s the Lombardstown estate in the parishes of Clonmeen and Kilshannig was held by his daughters and co-heiresses, Lady Cotter, Misses Henrietta and Elizabeth Lombard and also James Delacour who was married to the fourth sister, Harriet.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Aldworth (H2819) Hajba writes that this house was occupied by members of the Bolster family who held it from the Newmans in the late 18th century. It then became a Lombard property and passed from them to a relative, James Hunt. In the early 1850s it was occupied by James Laurence Cotter, held from James Hunt and valued at £14. This house is still occupied. Another house close by named Aldworth Lodge was also a Bolster home valued at £4+ at the time of Griffith's Valuation. A house is also extant at the latter site.	Aldworth	Kilshannig	Mallow	Kilshannig 248	Duhallow	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.09310 -8.72671 OSI Ref: W502 937 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #41.
Danesfort (H2820) According to Hajba built by James Butler Stopford in the very early 19th century, replacing an earlier cottage. Stopford sold his interest to his brother-in-law, Captain Edmund Lombard a few years later. At the time of Griffith's Valuation it was occupied by the Captain's nephew, James Hunt, who held the property valued at £27.15 shillings from Christopher Crofts. In 1944 the Irish Tourist Association survey noted that it was the residence of Stopford Hunt. The house was destroyed by fire in the 1950s.	Kilpadder North	Kilshannig	Mallow	Kilshannig 248	Duhallow	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.09864 -8.70345 OSI Ref: W518 943 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #41.
Lombardstown House (H2843) The seat for many years of the Lombard family, built in the mid 18th century. In 1750 Smith refers to the house as "lately built by James Lombard". From the 1830s it was leased to the Bolster family. George Bolster held the house valued at £15 plus a demesne of 101 acres from Lady Cotter in the early 1850s. The Bolsters remained in residence until the late 19th century when they sold their interest to Henry G. Smith. His descendants continue to occupy the house (Hajba).	Lombardstown	Kilshannig	Mallow	Kilshannig 248	Duhallow	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.11797 -8.77383 OSI Ref: W470 965 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #32.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Glantane
• National Library of Ireland: Wages and general account books of the Lombard family, landholders, of County Cork, 1763 - 1844. MSS 5909-5910
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Lombard of City of Cork, of Lombardslande at Buttevant, of Lombardstown, of Woodville, Co. Cork, c.1210 -- 1857. GO MS 182:60-63
• National Library of Ireland: Deeds relating to Garraney-carney, Clondrohid, Co. Cork; including leases by Hollow Sword Blade Company to Wm. Lombard and by Sir Matthew Deane to James Lombard; sale by Lord Muskerry to Rev. Robert Dring in trust for Rev. Edmond Lombard; 1709 - 1816. D. 26,335-26,352
• National Library of Ireland: Detailed abstracts of wills of Lombard of Gortvohie, of Gortmalyre, of Lombardstown, of City of Cork and City of Dublin, 1685 -- 1798. GO Ms.143, pp.35-44
• National Library of Ireland: Rental of the estate of Rev. Edmund Lombard in the city and county of Cork, Oct. 1795. (Badly damaged). MS 2985
• National Library of Ireland: Lombard Papers, unsorted collection. Acc No 971, PC 140 [PC 192]

Contemporary printed sources

Many of these resources are now available online. For a list with Web links please see the Online Printed Sources Links

• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 182
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 208 (Danesfort)
• WILSON, William. The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 236 (Lombardstown)

Modern printed sources

• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XXIII, 2nd Series (1917),46-58 (Lombardstown)
• Mallow Field Club Jnl: Lombard, John. The Lombards of Lombardstown. no.33 (2015), pp.149-154.
• HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 27, 141, 249
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Lombard Papers (from 1419), formerly the property of Mr. L. P. Hunt, Danesfort, Mallow, now in the National Library of Ireland, relating to the Lombard family and to property in Cork City and County. Extensive detail given re 15th-17th century documents. No. 46 & Supplement Report No. 279
• PINE, L.G. (ed). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. 4th ed. London: Burke's Peerage, 1958.: 446-447

• Disclaimer
• Privacy
• Accessibility