Estate: Sanders (Charleville Park)

Associated Families

• Boyle (Earl of Cork and Orrery)
• Sanders (Charleville Park)
• Knight

Description

''Burke's Irish Family Records'' states that William Sanders of Charleville, county Cork, held The Park from the Boyles on a lease for ever dated 20 Sept 1697. The house was built by Christopher Sanders in the latter half of the 18th century. Charleville Park was also known as Sanders' Park. In 1790 Robert Stevelly Sanders marrried Elizabeth Knight and the Sanders inherited some of the Knight estate. At the time of Griffith's Valuation William Sanders held land in the parish of Ballingaddy, barony of Coshlea, county Limerick, while the Sanders' county Cork estate was located in the parishes of Aglishdrinagh, Liscarroll, Ballyhay and Rathgoggan, barony of Orrery and Kilmore. In the 1870s Thomas Sanders of Sanders' Park, Charleville, owed 1,024 acres in county Cork and 942 acres in county Limerick. By the late 19th century this family was mainly located in Surrey.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Sanders Park (H3829) Late 18th century house, the seat of the Sanders family, occupied by William Saunders in 1814 and by C. Saunders in 1837. Griffith's Valuation records William R. Saunders holding the property from the Earl of Cork, the buildings were valued at £34+. The Irish Tourist Association Survey of the 1940s stated that it was then the residence of Mr. Binchy, a merchant in Charleville. It was converted into flats in the latter half of the 20th century but the building was derelict at the beginning of the 21st century. Also known as Charleville Park.	Rathgoggan North	Rathgoggan	Kilmallock	Charleville 186	Orrery and Kilmore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.36298 -8.68708 OSI Ref: R532 237 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #2.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey, Parish of Charleville
• National Library of Ireland: Papers of the Family of O'Brien of Cahirmoyle, Co Limerick, Collection List No 64. MS 36,722/2
• National Library of Ireland: Map of East Ballingaddy, barony of Coshlea, surveyed for Christopher Saunders, 1835. 16 H 22(21)
• National Library of Ireland: Photocopies of documents relating to the Sanders family of Charleville, Co. Cork; including wills and leases from Earls of Orrery; 1697-1779. Ms 18,590
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Sanders of Sanders Park, Charleville, Co. Cork, c.1750 -- c.1840. GO MS Ms.174, p.174
• University College Cork, Boole Library Archives: Collection of Co Cork leases & other legal documents, principally relating to the Bernard family but also to members of the Gookin, Buckworth, Stammers, Sealy, Beecher, Hedges, Stepney, Champagne, Fitzgerald, Daunt, McCarthy, Sanders, Webb, Bouchier & Baldwin families, 1709-1829. IE BL/SC/CB/1-30

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Orrery and Kilmore, 99 (Rathgoggan North)
• 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] : 403
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 347 (Saunder's-Park)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 498 (Saunderspark)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 134, 153

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). XV, 2nd Series (1909), 261 (Ballynoe)
• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 83 (Charleville Park)
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 1011-1013
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on Sanders Papers, Charleville, co Cork, mainly relating to estates in Cos Cork & Limerick, managed by father of Mr C. S. Sanders during 1885-1935, also includes some references to documents re Jones family of Mitchelstown, Co Limerick, Massy of Raheenamadree, barony of Costlea, Co Limerick, Ryves of Lissanore, Co Tipperary, Michael Keating of Millicent, Co Kildare 1776 & rentroll of his lands in Cos Tipperary, Clare and Limerick 1790, Massy of Ballywire, Co Tipperary. Also will of Christopher Sanders of Sanders 1839, 17th-20th centuries. Report No 429