Estate: Gollock

Associated Families

• Gollock

Description

In the mid 19th century members of the Gollock family held land in the parishes of Clondrohid, Kilmurry and Inchigeelagh, barony of West Muskerry, and in the parishes of Aghabulloge, Athnowen, Cannaway and Magourney, barony of East Muskerry, county Cork. This family were resident in the Macroom locality from the early 19th century. In the 1870s the Reverend James Gollock of Desertserges Glebe, Bandon, owned 2,346 acres in county Cork, while James Gollock of Blackrock, Cork, owned 949 acres.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Elmglyn (H2992) Elmglyn was the residence of T. Gollock in 1837 and of Patrick Daly at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He held the property from the representatives of Thomas Gollock and the buildings were valued at £11. The original house is not extant.	Dunmarklun	Kilmurry	Macroom	Greenville 211	West Muskerry	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.84094 -8.92434 OSI Ref: W363 658 Discovery map #86. OS Sheet #83.
Brinny Rectory (H3042) Brinny Rectory was held in fee by Rev. James Gollock at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £25. The house is still extant and occupied.	Brinny	Brinny	Bandon	Brinny 3	Kinalea	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.78767 -8.69860 OSI Ref: W518597 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #96.
Forest House (H3082) In 1750 William Spread was living at Forest and in the 1770s and 1780s Spread Esq is recorded as resident at Forest. In 1814 Leet records this "seat" as unoccupied. T. Gollock was resident in 1837 and Thomas Gollock held the property in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £38. Slater records it as the seat of Rev. T.H. Gollock in 1894. Forest was burnt in July 1921 just before the end of the War of Independence when it was the property of James Gollock and occupied by Lt. Col. Isaac Burns-Ludlow. The Irish Tourist Association survey refers to this in the 1940s as it having been burnt "as a military precaution". It is no longer extant.	Rathonoane	Cannaway	Macroom	Cannaway 210	East Muskerry	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.88307 -8.81918 OSI Ref: W436 704 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #72.
Upper Forest (H3083) A house valued at £20.10 shillings at the time of Griffith's Valuation, held by John Hassett from Thomas Gollock. It is still extant and occupied.	Rathonoane	Cannaway	Macroom	Cannaway 210	East Muskerry	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.87592 -8.81324 OSI Ref: W440 696 Discovery map #86. OS Sheet #72.
Leemount (H3091) Leemount was the home of Thomas Coppinger in 1814 and of Thomas Gollock in 1837. In the early 1850s this house was occupied by Thomas H. Broderick, valued at £30, and held from Thomas Gollock. In 1894 Slater refers to it as the residence of Albert Beamish. Leemount is recorded as one of the residences of John Lindsay, eldest son of George Crawford Lindsay of Moorlands, county Down in Walfords (1910). This original house was burnt in March 1921 during the War of Independence when it was the residence of Maria Lindsay, later executed as an informer by the IRA. It was replaced by the existing house.	Leemount	Magourney	Macroom	Magourney 217	East Muskerry	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.90389 -8.79776 OSI Ref: W451 727 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #72.
Classas (H3150) A house occupied by H. Minhear in 1837 and by Lewis Gollock at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £26 and held from William Crooke. In 1894 Slater notes it as the seat of A. McCall. In the 1940s the Irish Tourist Association survey noted that it was then being run by Mrs. Agnes Leader as a guesthouse "for relatives". It is still extant and occupied.	Nadrid	Magourney	Macroom	Magourney 217	East Muskerry	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.90033 -8.79188 OSI Ref: W455 723 Discovery map #80. OS Sheet #72.

Archival sources

• Cork City and County Archives: Deeds relating to the Dunmarklun estate, near Macroom, 1711-1825. U190
• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association files, Parish of Aghabulloge
• National Library of Ireland: Lismore Castle Papers, in particular with reference to a dispute over the tithes of Kilmurry, 1830s. Collection List 126
• National Library of Ireland: Farming diary and account book (perhaps kept by Thomas Gollock, Forest, Coachford, Co. Cork), 1824-6. Microfilm P 6016
• Private Possession: Gollock Papers, 3 volumes of demesne accounts 1824-1826, 1838-1843, 1846-1867, in the possession of Thomas H.M. Gollock, Monkstown, Co Cork in 1975, see James S. Donnelly's book

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : West Muskerry Barony, 96 (Dunmarklun)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kinalea Barony, 19 (Brinny)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Muskerry Barony, 121 (Rathonoane), 147 (Leemount), 149 (Nadrid)
• 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] : 184
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 187 (Forest), 262 (Lee mount - Thomas Coppinger)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 248 (Forest), II, 191 (Elm Ville), 335 (Lee Mount)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 124
• TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 175 (Forest - Spread Esq)

Modern printed sources

• Éire-Ireland: DONNELLY, James S. Jnr. Big House burning in county Cork during the Irish revolution, 1920-21. XLVIII, 3 & 4, Fall-Winter (2012), pp.141-197. [Leemount occupied by Maria Lindsay]
• DONNELLY, James S., Jr. The land and the people of nineteenth-century Cork. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1975: 388 & index
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: No.480. Gollock Papers: Deeds, including wills, farm diaries, rentals and accounts, mid. 18th - late 19th. c., of the family of Gollock of Macroom, Co. Cork.
• WALFORD. County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., 1910: 678