Estate: Grant (Kilmurry)

Associated Families

• Grant (Kilmurry)

Description

The Grant family were originally settled in county Waterford. They were established at Kilmurry, parish of Leitrim, county Cork, by the end of the 17th century. Successive generations of Thomas Grants descended from Thomas Grant and his wife, Elizabeth Campion of Leitrim, who married in 1748 and lived at Kilmurry. By the time of Griffith's Valuation Thomas St John Grant held an estate in the parish of Leitrim which in the 1870s amounted to over a thousand acres in county Cork. He also owned 1,217 acres in county Waterford, including the parish of Leitrim, barony of Coshmore and Coshbride, and property in the Barony of Gaultiere.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Kilmurry (H3369) The house was built in the early 18th century and remained in the hands of the Grant family until sold to the Rosminian Order in the 1930s. In the 1940s the Irish Tourist Association surveyor was given to understand that the Grants still retained title to the property and were residing in South Africa. In the mid 19th century it was valued at £37 and held by Thomas St John Grant in fee. At the beginning of the 21st century this house was in a dilapidated state.	Kilmurry South	Leitrim	Fermoy	Leitrim 147	Condons & Clangibbon	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.14735 -8.16656 OSI Ref: W886 995 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #36.
Prospect House (Gaultiere) (H4684) In 1848 James Merritt was leasing this property from the Grant estate when it was valued at £21. The house is still extant and occupied.	Farranshoneen	Ballynakill	Waterford	Ballynakill 77	Gaultiere	Waterford	Lat/Lon: 52.24636 -7.08190 OSI Ref: S627109 Discovery map #76. OS Sheet #10.
View Mount (H4686) A property named as View Mount on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey Map of the 1890s. It was occupied by Sarah Reynett, leasing from the Grant estate, at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £32. Mrs. Sarah Reynett, with an address at Kingstown, Dublin, owned 89 acres in county Waterford in the 1870s. A house is still extant at the site.	Farranshoneen	Ballynakill	Waterford	Ballynakill 77	Gaultiere	Waterford	Lat/Lon: 52.24454 -7.07901 OSI Ref: S629107 Discovery map #76. OS Sheet #18.
Mount Pleasant (Gaultiere) (H4687) Samuel King was leasing this property from the Grant estate in 1848 when it was valued at £74. Lewis had also noted it as his seat in 1837. Samuel King, residing at Mountpleasant, owned over 70 acres in county Waterford in the 1870s. This house is no longer extant. The site is now occupied by modern housing.	Grantstown	Ballynakill	Waterford	Ballynakill 77	Gaultiere	Waterford	Lat/Lon: 52.24004 -7.07764 OSI Ref: S630102 Discovery map #76. OS Sheet #18.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Kilworth
• Irish Genealogical Research Society Library: Pedigree of the Grant family
• National Library of Ireland: An early history of the Grants of Waterford and Kilkenny by Alan P. Grant, M.D., July, 1972. Ms. 16,691
• National Library of Ireland: Letters to or by members of the family of Grant, and other documents concerning them, 1800-1836. Ussher Papers, Ms. 10,177
• National Library of Ireland: Two hundred and eighty-six deeds relating to the families of Ussher, Grant, Paul, Keily, Musgrave, Taylor, Osborne and Finlay and to lands in Co. Waterford, including marriage settlements and wills, 1562 - 1913. Ussher Papers, D. 13,423-13,708

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Condons & Clangibbon Barony, 112 (Kilmurry South)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Gaultiere: 5 (Farranshoneen & Grantstown)
• 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] : 189
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 256 (Kilmurry)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.I, 157-8 (Parish of Ballynakill, Mount Pleasant, King)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 236
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 134 (Cork), 175 (Waterford)

Modern printed sources

• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: GRANT, A.P. The Grant Families of County Tipperary. 2nd Series, LXXVII (1972), 65-75
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. London: 1862-1863: I, 587
• HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 227