Estate: Chinnery

Associated Families

• Chinnery (Baronet)
• McCarthy (Drishane)
• Stubbs

Description

The Chinnerys came from Suffolk and settled in county Cork in the mid 17th century. John Chinnery of Mallow was granted Castlecor and other lands amounting to 1,673 acres in 1666. He had two sons, George of Castlecor, and Nicholas of Flintfield. Nicholas married Margaret O'Callaghan of Clonmeen, county Cork, and it was their granddaughter who married her cousin, Sir Brodrick Chinnery, 1st Baronet in 1768. Sir Brodrick was the grandson of George Chinnery and a brother of the Right Reverend George Chinnery, Bishop of Cloyne. His uncle, John Chinnery, had sold Castlecor to William Freeman. Sir Brodrick was created a baronet in 1799 and was Member of Parliament for Bandon in 1802. Sir Brodrick Chinnery, 2nd Baronet, of Flintfield, married Diana Elizabeth Vernon of Clontarf Castle, county Dublin and they do not appear to have resided at Flintfield. Their only son, Sir Nicholas Chinnery, 3rd Baronet, and his wife were killed by a train in 1868. The 3rd Baronet's only child, a daughter, married in 1864 the Reverend James Robert Alexander Haldane, Bishop of Argyll and the Isles. He assumed the additional name of Chinnery. The Chinnery estate was situated in the parishes of Cullen, barony of Duhallow, and Drishane, barony of West Muskerry, county Cork. Lands belonging to Lord Muskerry and Maria Chinnery were sold in the Landed Estates Court in March, 1865. The purchasers were Messers. Evans, Nagle and Prin. [A Richard Brodrick Chinnery owned 239 acres in county Cork in the 1870s]. Chinnery is spelt Genry in some parts of Griffith's Valuation.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Castlecor (H2786) The home of the Freeman family purchased from the Chinnerys in the early 18th century. Smith records it as the seat of William Freeman in 1750 and Wilson describes it as "the fine seat of Mr.Freeman" in 1786. Later the home of the Deane Freeman family who enlarged the building at the beginning of the 19th century. Advertised for sale in 1852, Bence Jones writes that it was bought by Richard Barry. It remained in the Barrys' possession until the 1950s. In the 1940s the Irish Tourist Association survey noted that "the house and offices are now rather neglected". Sold by Mr Hope Murray in the 1960s and subsequently demolished.	Castlecor Demesne	Kilbrin	Kanturk	Castlecor 160	Duhallow	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.20939 -8.81200 OSI Ref: R445 067 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #24.
Flintfield House (H2860) This house was a seat of the Chinnery family from the mid 18th to the mid 19th century. It was occupied by Barry Cotter in 1814 and by Denis O'Connell in 1837 and at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The buildings were valued at £18+ and the property was held from John Orpen. Home of the MacSweeneys in the 20th century.	Gortageen	Cullen	Millstreet	Keale 281	Duhallow	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.08714 -9.04177 OSI Ref: W286 933 Discovery map #79. OS Sheet #39.
Rathroe (H2862) Hajba records a lease of Rathroe House from Sir Robert Deane to Denis McCarthy dated 1779. In 1837 another Denis McCarthy was occupying the house and he was also resident in the early 1850s when the house was held from the Reverend Nicholas Chinnery. The buildings were valued at £26.15 shillings. Hajba writes that the McCarthys continued to live in the house until it was sold in the 1930s to Con Meaney TD. The house is no longer extant.	Rathroe	Cullen	Millstreet	Keale 281	Duhallow	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.10054 -9.05084 OSI Ref: W280 948 Discovery map #79. OS Sheet #30.
Rathduane (H3030) The home of Owen McCarthy in 1814, of J.E. McCarty [Jeremiah Eugene] in 1837 and of Eugene McCarthy at the time of Griffith's Valuation when the buildings were valued at £20 and held from Sir Broderick Chinnery. Still a McCarthy home in the 1870s.	Rathduane	Drishane	Millstreet	Caherbarnagh 284	West Muskerry	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.08072 -9.15250 OSI Ref: W210 927 Discovery map #79. OS Sheet #38.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association survey files, Parish of Ballyclogh
• Irish Genealogical Research Society Library: Pedigree of Chinnery family of county Cork (Leader Collection)
• National Archives of Ireland: Large collection of solicitors' records including documents re the Chinnery family of Co Cork, 18th-19th centuries. E.J.French solicitor's collection, Small Accessions Index 8
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Muskerry & Chinnery, 1 July 1864, Vol 73 (58) & 24 Mar 1865, Vol 75 (70), MRGS 39/036, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Library of Ireland: Pembroke Estate Papers: schedule of deeds affecting estate of R.E. Chinnery in Cos Cork, Limerick, Kerry & city of Dublin. MS 16,837
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Chinnery Barts., of Castle Cor, of Middleton and of Flintfield all in Co. Cork with copy of Patent of Baronetcy, c.1620 -- 1799. GO MS 113, pp.182-9
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Chinnery, Barts., of Castle Corr, of Drumshikane, later Flintfield, Co. Cork, 1666 -- 1868. GO MS 114, pp 19-22
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of confirmation of Arms to Sir Broderick Chinnery of Flintfield, Co. Cork, Bart., Oct.10, 1799. GO MS 103, p 160
• National Library of Ireland: Pembroke Estate Papers, album of letters, accounts and miscellaneous papers relating to the family of Chinnery, baronets, formerly of Flintfield, Co. Cork, c.1779-1839. Ms. 19,312
• National Library of Ireland: Abstracts of Chancery Bills, c. 1630-1810, relating mainly to the families of Chinnery and Phair. GO Ms 523-524
• National Library of Ireland: Vernon Papers, letters to Sir Broderick Chinnery from Francis Allen of Cork, mainly re estate and financial matters but containing references to the political state of the country, c.1806-1839. MS 18,955
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of royal licence to the Rev. James Robert Alexander Haldane Chinnery to take the name Haldane in addition to and after the name Chinnery, Sept. 2, 1878. GO Ms.153, pp.295-300
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of confirmation of arms to Rev. J. R. A. Haldane, later Haldane Chinnery, and his wife, Anne E. F. M., only child of Rev. Sir Nicholas Chinnery, Bart., of Flintfield, Co. Cork, on their assuming under Royal Licence the name and arms of Chinnery Haldane, Sept. 28, 1878. GO Ms. 109, pp. 407-8
• Public Record Office, Northern Ireland: Correspondence between Albinia, Viscountess Midleton, widow of 3rd Viscount, and the agent, Dean George Chinnery about the financial state of the family, and information about the Parker estate, Co. Cork; also 'A state of the diocese of Cloyne with respect to the several parishes thereof', compiled, 1769. T. 2862 [part]

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Duhallow, Part III, 16 (Rathroe)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland, 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 76
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 119

Modern printed sources

• Irish Ancestor: FFOLLIOTT, Rosemary. Chinnery of Co Cork. VII (1975), 67-69
• Irish Times: Landed Estates Court sales, 25 March 1865, p.3
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: A Chancery Bill of 1692-3. John Chinnery of Mallow, Attorney Defendant. [includes family tree]. XXV, 2nd Series (1919), 25-33
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: George Chinnery (1774-1852) with an account of his family and genealogy. XXXVII(1932), 11-21 and XXXVIII (1933), 1-15
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: II, 339-340
• HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 102, 167, 310