Estate: Nash (Kinalea)

Associated Families

• Nash (Kinalea)

Description

The Nash family seem to have become established in the Bandon area in the seventeenth century. Local sources suggest they may have been from Somerset. Rev George Nash was the principal lessor in the parish of Brinny, barony of Kinalea, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The estate of the Reverend George Cornwall Nash at Clashanimod, barony of Kinalea, and lands in the barony of East Muskerry were advertised for sale in May 1857. Mathew B. Nash, of Ballinacurra, Bandon, owned over 200 acres in county Cork in the 1870s

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Highfort (H2734) Reverend Somers Payne was leasing this property from Anne Nash at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £12. There is an extant house at the site which the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage asserts was built c.1880.	Rockfort	Brinny	Bandon	Brinny 3	East Carbery (East)	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.78242 -8.67243 OSI Ref: W536591 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #97.
Ballinacurra House (Kinsale) (H2930) Ballinacurra House was held in fee by Mary Bleazby at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £18 5s. In 1786, Wilson refers to "Balnacurragh" as trhe seat of Mr. Swete. It is still extant and sometimes let as holiday accommodation.	Ballinacurra	Clontead	Kinsale	Kinsale Rural 207	Kinsale	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.71202 -8.55563 OSI Ref: W616512 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #111.
Brinny House (H3040) Brinny House was being leased by J.H. Wheatley to Rev. George Nash at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £30. In October 1854, it, together with the rest of Nash's property at Brinny, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. The house is described in the sale notice as "in good repair". Lewis refers to it as the seat of J. Nash in 1837. In the late 1770s and 1780s it was the residence of Nash esq. In 1942 the Irish Tourist Association Survey referred to "a semi-derelict old mansion near Brinny Bridge, the reputed residence of Seán Dearg Nash, tyrannical provost of Bandon, 1690-1724". The original house is no longer extant.	Brinny	Brinny	Bandon	Brinny 3	Kinalea	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.78315 -8.70143 OSI Ref: W516592 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #96.
Clashanimud Cottage or Glenview House (H3041) Rev. George Nash was leasing this property to Henry Nash at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £10. It is labelled on the 25-inch Ordnance Map, published in the 1890s, as Glenview House. There is no house at this site now.	Clashanimud	Brinny	Bandon	Brinny 3	Kinalea	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.78859 -8.69426 OSI Ref: W521598 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #96.
Beechmount (H3074) Mary Nash was leasing this property to John Hornibrook at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £18. Lewis refers to it as the seat of J.Hornibrook in 1837. Still extant and occupied.	Garryhankard	Knockavilly	Bandon	Brinny 3	Kinalea	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.78868 -8.67832 OSI Ref: W532598 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #97.
Garryhankardmore (H3075) Mary Nash and Howard Wiseman were leasing this property to Robert Biggs at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £35. In 1837 Lewis referred to as the seat of T. Biggs. There are still extant buildings at the site.	Garryhankard	Knockavilly	Bandon	Brinny 3	Kinalea	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.79677 -8.67844 OSI Ref: W532607 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #97.
Seafield (Kinsale) (H3320) Rev. G. Nash was leasing this house from Thomas Banfield in 1851 when it was valued at almost £8. It does not appear on the 25-inch Ordnance map of the 1890s and no house exists at that site now.	Ballincurrig	Ringrone	Kinsale	Ballinspittle 203	Courceys	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.65886 -8.58244 OSI Ref: W597453 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #124.
Ballinacurra House (Bandon) (H3552) In1851 this house was being leased by Joseph Nash from the Devonshire estate, when it had a valuation of £14. There is still an extant house at the site.	Kilmore	Brinny	Bandon	Brinny 3	Kinalmeaky	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.79027 -8.71313 OSI Ref: W508600 Discovery map #86. OS Sheet #96.

Archival sources

• Cork City and County Archives: Bond of James Nash of the city of Cork to John Gallwey of Kilkenny, for over £330, 1766. U142
• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey, Parish of Innishannon
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Nash, 16 May 1857, Vol 45 (22), MRGS 39/022, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Nash, 19 October 1854, Vol 30, MRGS 39/013, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Library of Ireland: Nash of Brinny, Co. Cork, draft pedigree, 1610 -- 1889. Genealogical Office: Ms. 820(6)

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kinalea Barony, 19 (Brinny), 20 (Clashanimud), 56 (Garryhankard)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Carbery (East) Barony, 37 (Rockfort)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Courceys: 6 (Ballincurrig)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kinalmeaky Barony, 19 (Kilmore)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.I, 225 (Parish of Brinny)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 130
• 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: 170
• WILSON, William. The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 228 (Brinie)

Modern printed sources