Estate: Kearney (Kinsale)

Associated Families

• Cuthbert
• Kearney (Kinsale)
• Carney (Islandbrack)

Description

The Kearney family were established at Garrettstown, near Kinsale, county Cork, by the end of the 17th century. In the 18th century heads of the family married members of the Roche family of Trabolgan, Sarsfield family of Sarsfield Court and the Roche family of Dunderrow. In 1812, following the death without heirs of James Kearney, the estate passed to his first cousin, Thomas Rochfort of Cork. Rochfort married Anne, daughter of John Cuthbert of Cork, and left his estate to his brother- in-law,Thomas Cuthbert, provided he took the additional surname of Kearney, which he did in 1832. Thomas Cuthbert Kearney had married Jane Franks in 1791 and they had two sons, John and Thomas. The representatives of John Cuthbert Kearney were among the principal lessors in the parishes of Ringrone, barony of Kinsale, Dunderrow, barony of Kinalea and Templetrine, barony of Courceys, Corbally, Inishkenny and Kilnaglory, barony of East Muskerry, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. At the same time Thomas C. Carney [Cuthbert Kearney] held an estate in the parish of Ardmayle, barony of Middlethird, county Tipperary, comprised of at least five townlands. By 1867, this Tipperary estate, then in the possession of Thomas, John and Arthur Cuthbert, minors, and their guardians, Abram Thomas Forster, Thomas Franks and Agnes Horsey, was advertised for sale. In January 1877, lands owned by Hugh Green in the barony of Kinalea, county Cork were sold in the Landed Estates Court. They included townlands which were in Kearney occupation at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The Irish Times reported that they were purchased by Bergin Franklin. In 1883 Bateman reported that Thomas Cuthbert Kearney owned an estate of over 7300 acres in counties Cork and Kerry.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Doon (Kinsale) (H2933) Rev. John Webb was leasing this property from the representatives of John Kearney at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £13 10s. An Encumbered Estates Sale notice of January 1851 indicates the mansion house at Doon was originally part of the Sullivan estate. Doon is still extant.	Dunderrow	Dunderrow	Kinsale	Kinsale Rural 207	Kinsale	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.71904 -8.59189 OSI Ref: W591520 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #111.
Brownsmills (H2941) The representatives of T. Kearney held this property in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £14 10s and included a mill complex. Portions of the mill complex have been converted into apartments.	Brownsmills	Ringcurran	Kinsale	Kinsale Rural 207	Kinsale	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.72118 -8.51811 OSI Ref: W642522 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #112.
Dunderrow House (H3046) The building at this site is recorded as a Glebe house on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map.A different building at the site is labelled as Dunderrow House on the 25-inch edition of the 1890s. John C. Kearney was leasing this property to Blayney Calnane at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £8. There is still an extant house at the site. Lewis refers to "Dunderrow Cottage" as the seat of Rev. R. Halburd in 1837 but this is a different property in the townland of Horse Hill Beg. Local sources also suggest that Thomas Adderley lived "at Dunderrow" before moving to a house in the centre of Inishannon village. In 1786, Wilson writes that Thomas Adderley had a seat at Inishannon.	Horse Hill More North	Dunderrow	Kinsale	Leighmoney 197	Kinalea	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.72895 -8.58623 OSI Ref: W595531 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #111.
Leighmoney House (H3047) Lewis records E. Gillman of Leoffney [Leighmoney?], parish of Dunderrow in 1837. John C. Kearney held this property in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £15. There is still an extant house at the site.	Leighmoney	Dunderrow	Kinsale	Leighmoney 197	Kinalea	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.72255 -8.60931 OSI Ref: W579524 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #111.
Coolyrahilly House (H3322) Thomas Cuthbert was leasing this property from John C. Kearney's estate in 1851 when it was valued at £6. It is labelled Coolyrahilly House on the 25-inch map published in the 1890s. There is still an extant house here.	Coolyrahilly	Ringrone	Kinsale	Ballinspittle 203	Courceys	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.67873 -8.56390 OSI Ref: W610475 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #124.
Garrettstown (H3323) In 1851 John Cuthbert Kearney held this property in fee when it was valued at £80. In the 1870s this house was the home of Abram T. Forster. The Forsters and the Cuthbert Kearneys were related. By the early 20th century Garrettstown had passed into the possession of the Franks family throught the marriage of Thomas Franks of Dromrahane, Mallow and Mary Anne Cuthbert Kearney in 1834. Though the main house is ruinous the site is now the focus of Garrettstown Holiday Park, see www.garrettstownhouse.com.	Garrettstown	Templetrine	Kinsale	Laherne 206	Courceys	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.65250 -8.59536 OSI Ref: W588446 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #124, 137.
Kilmore House & Garrettstown Mills (Ballinspittle) (H3324) Richard Jago was leasing this property from the Kearney estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £16 and included a milling business. By the 1890s Kilmore House is located nearer to the mill which is now labelled Garrettstown Mill (W591454). Kilmore House and portions of the mill building are still extant.	Kilmore	Templetrine	Kinsale	Laherne 206	Courceys	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.66060 -8.59402 OSI Ref: W589455 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #124.
Roughwood (H3377) Leased by Joseph Bullen to William Bullen at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £2 10s. Offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in August 1855, when the sale notice indicated the property was on lease from the Kearney estate. This house is no longer extant.	Ballyhander	Ringrone	Kinsale	Ballinspittle 203	Courceys	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.69207 -8.59154 OSI Ref: W591490 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #124.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Twelve maps of various plots in the vicinity of Kinsale, mainly the estate of Francis Kearney. Four of the maps are by George Miller, 1711-1757. Also Five documents relating to the Kearney estate near Kinsale, 1710-41.
• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association survey files, Parish of Ballinspittle
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates Court Rentals (O'Brien), Sullivan, 6 January 1851, Vol 4, MRGS 39/002, (microfilm copy in NUIG) Doon House
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Bullen, 1 August 1855, Vol 36, MRGS 39/017, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Cuthbert, 25 June 1867, Vol 86 (11), MRGS 39/042, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Library of Ireland: Five documents relating to the Kearney estate near Kinsale, 1710-41. Twelve maps of various plots in the vicinity of Kinsale, mainly the estate of Francis Kearney. Four of the maps are by George Miller, 1711-1757. n.5202, p.5306 [Microfilm copy of documents held in Cork County Library]
• National Library of Ireland: Maps, including traces from the Down Survey, of the estates of Francis Kearney and others in the Co. Cork with relative manuscript documents. By Frith, John Carty, George Miller and other surveyors, Fifty eight maps, 1665-1856. Manuscript maps: 21 F. 73
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of will of James Kearny, Garrettstown, Co. Cork; Sept. 8, 1731. Sarsfield Papers (Associated Families), D. 26,101
• National Library of Ireland: Marriage settlement of Francis Kearny of Garrettstown, Co. Cork and Mary Roche of Cork City, May 15, 1729; associated agreement re trusteeship, Sept. 30, 1741. Sarsfield Papers (Associated Families), D. 26,094-5
• National Library of Ireland: Thirteen maps on vellum of the estate of Francis Kearney in the Kinsale district and elsewhere, made by J. Carty, 1740 - 1742. MS 9730

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kinsale Barony, 10 (Dunderrow)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kinalea Barony, 29 (Horse Hill More North), 30 (Leighmoney)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Courceys: 9 (Coolyrahilly), 19 (Garrettstown), 21 (Kilmore)
• BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.247

Modern printed sources

• Irish Times: Landed Estates Court sale reports, 31 January 1877, p.6. (Green estate)
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: WALSH, Rev T.J. The Memorandum Book of David Rochfort. 2nd Series, LXVI (1961), 55-64
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. London: 1862-1863: II, 800
• ELLIS, Eilish & EUSTACE, P. Beryl. "Registry of Deeds Dublin Abstracts of Wills, Vol III, 1785-1832. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1984: Will of Thomas Rochfort of Garrettstown, 1831. III, 428-429
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on Franks Papers, in the custody of Messrs. Fetherstonhaugh and Carter, solicitors, Mountrath, Co. Leix, mainly leases relating to the family of Franks, of Dromrahan Co. Cork and formerly of Westfield, Co. Leix, also testamentary & other papers re Kearney family of Garretstown, 17th-19th centuries. No. 441