Estate: Langley (Co Cork)

Associated Families

• Langley (Co Tipperary)

Description

This family appear to be a branch of the county Tipperary Langleys, Hajba writes that the Langleys of Ballyellis and Byblox were descended from Charles Langley, the Cromwellian officer, who took Clonmel in 1650. The Langleys were associated with various properties in the baronies of Orrery and Kilmore, and Fermoy, county Cork, in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1887 Jane, the only child of Henry Langley of Doneraile, married William Hamilton Sherlock Brazier Creagh.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Kilpatrick (H2900) Hajba writes that Roger Langley leased this property from the Longfields in the mid 18th century. Lewis writes that William J. McCormick, medical doctor,occupied the house in 1837. A boys' school was established at Kilpatrick by the McCormicks. At the time of Griffith's Valuation William J. McCormack held the house valued at almost £10.15 shillings from Christopher Langley. Sir William J. MacCormac was a well known London surgeon, the son of Dr Henry MacCormac of Belfast. The house was occupied until the early 20th century but is now a ruin.	Kilpatrick	Ballyclogh	Mallow	Ballyclogh 234	Orrery and Kilmore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.15133 -8.75834 OSI Ref: R481 002 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #32.
Ballyellis (H3245) Ballyellis was occupied by Edmund Barry in 1814 and by Henry Langley at the time of Griffith's Valuation. H. Langley held the property from James Barry and the buildings were valued at £12. It later came into the possession of the Harold Barry family and members of the family were still resident at Ballyellis at the beginning of the 21st century.	Ballyellis	Doneraile	Mallow	Doneraile 242	Fermoy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.22938 -8.62940 OSI Ref: R570 088 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #17.
Byblox (H3246) Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland (1904) traces the Ross family of Dunmoyle from the Mann family of Byblox in the first half of the 18th century. Hajba writes that the original house was occupied by the Langley family in the 18th century. At the end of that century Roger Langley leased Byblox to Robert Fennel Crone who built a new house to replace the original which had been accidentally burnt. It was valued at £70 in the mid 19th century. The descendants of Robert F. Crone, including members of the Croker family, inhabited this six bay, three-storied house until the beginning of the 20th century when it was bought by the Morrogh Bernards. In the 1940s the Irish Tourist Association Survey noted that the house was then in the possession of Mrs. Drake Brockman but it was unoccupied with John Roche acting as agent. Byblox was demolished in the 1960s.	Byblox	Doneraile	Mallow	Doneraile 242	Fermoy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.22058 -8.59415 OSI Ref: R594 078 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #17.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Doneraile
• National Archives of Ireland: Marriage settlement of Robert Long of North Suburb, Cork city and Mary Langley of Byblox, 9 Sept 1762. 999/370(12)
• National Library of Ireland: Doneraile Papers, Collection List 62, see index

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Orrery and Kilmore, 10 (Kilpatrick)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 53 (Ballyellis), 54 (Byblox)
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 39 (Ballyellis - Edmund Barry), 84 (Byblox - John Crone)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 129 (Kilpatrick)

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). XIII, (1907), 161-164 (Ballyellis), XV, 2nd Series (1909), 373-378 (Byblox)
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 522 (Ross of Dunmoyle)
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: 1548 (MacCormac)
• HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 51, 90, 228
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 286 (Creagh), 688-692 (Langley)