Estate: Green (Youghal)

Associated Families

• Green (Youghal)

Description

A merchant family of Youghal, county Cork, who acquired an estate in the 19th century. Thomas Murdock Green held land in the parishes of Killeagh and Youghal, barony of Imokilly, at the time of Griffith's Valuation and was residing at Aghadoe House. Thomas M. Green died in 1864 and was buried in Killeagh cemetery. His eldest son, Captain James Matthew Green, married Margaret Bowles in 1862. In the 1870s Murdock Green of Youghal owned 1,153 acres, the Reverend William Spotswood Green of Youghal owned 572 acres and Mrs T. M. Green of Dublin owned 117 acres in county Cork.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Aghadoe House (Killeagh) (H3530) Lewis writes in 1837 that “The present house is about to be replaced by a castellated mansion”. The earlier house is referred to by Wilson in 1786 as the seat of Simon Dring. Aghadoe was occupied by Thomas M. Green at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The house, valued at £27, was held by him from Sir Arthur De Capell Brooke. The house is no longer extant.	Aghadoe	Killeagh	Youghal	Killeagh 337	Imokilly	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.95153 -7.99855 OSI Ref: X001 777 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #66.

Archival sources

• Cork City and County Archives: MS notes by John Green, Youghal in the end pages of The Treble Almanack, 1829, entries are mostly political comments, 1829. U117
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Green, (properties in Youghal), 16 July 1872, Vol 107 (21), 10 July 1875, Vol 120 (49), MRGS 39/050 & 39/055, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Green, (barony of Kinnatalloon)13 Nov 1863, Vol 70 (34), MRGS 39/035, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• Public Record Office, Northern Ireland: Shannon Papers, D2707

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Imokilly Barony, 21 (Aghadoe)
• 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] : 190-191
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 124

Modern printed sources

• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 58 (Bowles)
• SWANZY, Henry Biddall and GREEN, Thomas George Henis. The family of Green of Youghal, Co Cork. Dublin: Alex. Thom & Co, 1902: All