Estate: Moloney (Kinalea)

Associated Families

• Moloney (Kinalea)
• Anderson (Ballinaboy)

Description

John Moloney was among the principal lessors in the parish of Ballinaboy, barony of Kinalea, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Frances Moloney was the proprietor of over 400 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. Over 700 acres of the estate of Frances Anderson,nee Molony, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in June 1877.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ballinaboy House (H3011) In 1837 Lewis describes this house as a "handsome modern mansion surrounded with young and thriving plantations". John Moloney held Ballinaboy House in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £40. Lewis described it as "a handsome modern mansion, the seat of J. Moloney" in 1837. In the early 1940s the Irish Tourist Association survey described it as being "in a good state of preservation" and occupied by a Mr.Tuttle. It is still extant and occupied.	Ballinaboy	Ballinaboy	Kinsale	Ballymartle 195	Kinalea	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.80743 -8.52925 OSI Ref: W635618 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #98.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association survey files, Parish of Ballinhassig [Ballnaboy House]
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Molony, 5 June 1877, Vol 128, MRGS 39/058, (microfilm copy in NUIG)

Contemporary printed sources

Many of these resources are now available online. For a list with Web links please see the Online Printed Sources Links

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kinalea Barony, 1 (Ballinaboy)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 109 (Ballinaboy)
• 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: 62

Modern printed sources