Estate: Fitzgerald (Castle Ishen)

Associated Families

• Fitzgerald (Castle Ishen) (Baronet)
• Serlupi

Description

Burke indicates that this family assumed a baronetcy on the basis of their descent from the Fitzgeralds of Clenglish, who were granted a baronetcy in 1644. The dignity was not assumed after the death of the 1st Baronet until the succession of Sir Richard Fitzgerald as 6th Baronet in the mid 18th century. The Fitzgeralds were resident at Castle Lishen/Ishen, near Milford, county Cork, from the mid 17th century. The estate was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Ballinadee, barony of East Carbery, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The Fitzgeralds also held land in the parishes of Kilbolane and Tullylease, barony of Orrery and Kilmore and Killaspugmullane, barony of Barrymore. Sir Gerald Fitzgerald 10th Baronet owned 1,190 acres in county Cork and some land in county Tipperary in the 1870s while the representatives of his brother Sir James Fitzgerald 9th Baronet owned over 300 acres in county Cork. [A Lady Fitzgerald, England, is recorded as owning 2,054 acres in county Cork in the 1870s (see owners of 1 acre return 1876 and Hussey) and Lady A. H. Fitzgerald is recorded as owning 2,184 acres (see return of perpetual lease holders 1876). James 8th Baron Fitzgerald of Castle Ishen married Augusta Harriet Fremantle, sister of Lord Cottesloe, she died 1863. The widow of the 9th Baron became a Sister of Charity and died in 1875]. The baronetcy became extinct in 1894 following the death of the 10th Baron. In 1853 his sister Cecilia had married the Marquess Serlupi of Italy and the Castle Ishen estate was in her possession at the beginning of the 20th century.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Castle Ishen (H2907) Castle Ishen was the seat of the Fitzgerald family from the mid 17th century until the late 19th century. In the late 18th century the castle was replaced by the house which stands today. In the 19th century the house was occupied by the estate agents, members of the Hannigan and O'Leary families although Lady Fitzgerald, widow of the 8th Baronet, is recorded as the occupier at the time of Griffith's Valuation. She held the house valued at £10+ in fee. Her sons were both minors at the time. Hajba writes that the O'Learys purchased the house in the early 20th century. In 1944 the Irish Tourist Association Survey noted that they had first come there in the 1790s. Castle Ishen is still extant.	Castlelishen	Kilbolane	Kanturk	Milford 174	Orrery and Kilmore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.32306 -8.87862 OSI Ref: R401 194 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #6.
Trantstown (H3931) A Trant home in the 18th century, occupied by Mrs Pepper in 1837 and by James Barry in the early 1850s. He held the house valued at £8+ from Lady A.H. Fitzgerald. Buildings are still located at this site.	Trantstown	Killaspugmullane	Cork	Rivertstown 109	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.98420 -8.37266 OSI Ref: W744 814 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #64.

Archival sources

• Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies: Fremantle Manuscripts include correspondence relating to proposed sale of Marchesa Cecilia Serlupi's Irish estate c.1904. D-FR/158/3
• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Milford
• National Archives of Ireland: Baker, Ringwood & Gordon, solicitors' collection, includes papers relating to the Co Cork estate of Cecilia Serlupi, Marchesa Rome, & the Land Acts, 1905-1909. Small Accs. Index 105, M.4096(1-29) & T.12,029
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Fitzgerald of Cloyne and Castle Ishen, Barts., Co. Cork, c.1580 -- c.1805. Genealogical Office: Ms.112, p.26
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Fitzgerald, Barts., of Cloyne and Castle Ishin with copy of Patent of Baronetcy, c.1600 -- 1780. Genealogical Office: Ms.113, pp.230-49
• National Library of Ireland: Genealogical Office report on the family of FitzGerald of Castle Ishen, Co. Cork, c.1550 -- c.1700. Genealogical Office: Ms.812(32)

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Orrery and Kilmore, 54 (Castlelishen)
• BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.165
• 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] : 160
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 240 (Castle Ishen)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of names of proprietors and area and valuation of properties in counties in Ireland, held in fee or perpetuity or long leases at chief rents, 1876. (412) LXXX. 395: 56
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 123

Modern printed sources

• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: 538
• HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 106