Estate: Collis/Cooke Collis
Associated Families
Description
The Collis estate was in the parishes of Clondulane and Leitrim, barony of Condons and Clangibbon, county Cork. The Reverend G. Atkins Collis also held land in the parish of Ballyhooly, barony of Fermoy. In the 1870s the Reverend Dr Maurice Atkin Cooke Collis of Queenstown owned 5,177 acres in county Cork and 664 acres in county Tipperary. Reports of the sale of the estate of John Butler in the barony of Upper Ormond, county Tipperary, in April 1866 indicate that the purchaser was Robert G. Collis. Edward S. Collis owned 671 acres in county Cork.
Houses
House Name / Description |
Townland |
Civil Parish |
PLU |
DED |
Barony |
County |
Map Ref |
Hollyhill House
(H2950)
Lewis refers to Hollyhill House as the seat of C. Newman in 1837. Leet recorded it as the seat of Thomas Newman in 1814. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, it was being leased by James Radcliff to Mary Anne Collis. Mrs. Collis was the owner of almost 1000 acres in county Tipperary in the 1870s. It does not appear on the 25-inch map of the 1890s and there is no evidence of it now.
|
Hollyhill |
Tisaxon |
Kinsale |
Kinsale Rural 207 |
Kinsale |
Cork |
Lat/Lon:
51.71091 -8.59902
OSI Ref:
W586511.
Discovery map #87.
OS Sheet #111.
|
Knockatrasnane
(H3370)
At the time of Griffith's Valuaiton, William Collis held in fee a house and offices valued at £14.10 shillings in this townland. The 1st edition Ordnance Survey map indicates a nursery at this site. The remains of the buildings are still extant.
|
Knockatrasnane |
Leitrim |
Fermoy |
Castlecooke 142 |
Condons & Clangibbon |
Cork |
Lat/Lon:
52.17612 -8.16374
OSI Ref:
R888 027
Discovery map #74.
OS Sheet #28.
|
Castle Cooke
(H3371)
A house was located here from the 17th century. Originally home of the Cooke family it was altered and expanded in the succeeding centuries by the Collis family. William Collis was resident for much of the 19th century. The house was valued at £32 in the early 1850s and at £34 when occupied by Colonel William Cooke Collis in 1906. It was burnt in June 1921 during the War of Independence when it was the residence of Col. William Cooke-Collis. This house is no longer extant.
|
Castlecooke |
Macroney |
Fermoy |
Castlecooke 142 |
Condons & Clangibbon |
Cork |
Lat/Lon:
52.18418 -8.18132
OSI Ref:
R876 036
Discovery map #74.
OS Sheet #28.
|
Archival sources
- Irish Genealogical Research Society Library:
Pedigree of Collis family of County Cork (Leader Collection)
- National Library of Ireland:
Copy of confirmation of the arms of Collis to the descendants of William Collis of Lisdoge, Co. Kerry and to his descendant, Col. William Cooke Collis of Castle Cooke, Co. Cork May 4, 1903. GO Ms.111, pp.138-9
- National Library of Ireland:
Copy of confirmation of arms to the descendants of the Rev. William Collis and Martha, his wife, daughter of Thomas Cooke of Castle Cooke, Co. Cork, and to his great great grandson, Col. William Cooke Collis of Castle Cooke May 4, 1903. GO Ms.111, pp.138-9
- National Library of Ireland:
Grant of arms to Sarah Beck of Creg, Fermoy, Co. Cork, widow of Capt. Richard Edward Beck of Derwyn, Co. Monmouth, and daughter of William Cooke Collis of Castle Cooke, Co. Cork, by Sarah, his wife, daughter of John Hyde of Castle Hyde, on her assuming under Royal Licence the name and arms of Hyde, Dec. 22, 1888. GO Ms. 110, pp. 107-8
- National Library of Ireland:
Thomas Lalor Cooke Papers, 18th & 19th centuries, include correspondence & detailed accounts of the genealogy of the Lalor, Cooke & associated families. Ms 24,569-24,580 & Ms 25,296-25,298
- Trinity College Dublin:
Account of the state of affairs in and about Headford, Co. Galway by R. St. G. Mansergh St. George, c. 1790, with a note by Sir B. Boothby, Copy of a letter concerning the murder of Mansergh St. George by Rev. Collis of Castle Cooke, Co. Cork Feb., 1798. Ms. 1749 (I. 6. 24)
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. :
Condons & Clangibbon Barony, 112 (Knockatrasnane), 122 (Castlecooke)
- BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. :
p.100
- 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] :
91
- LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 :
98 (Castle-cook)
- LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837:
II, 327 (Castle Cooke)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX:
120, 160
- SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) :
xxiv, 263
Modern printed sources
- Irish Times:
Landed Estates Court Sale reports, 25 April 1866, p.3
- 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.
- BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. :
64 (Castle Cooke)
- HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002:
101