Estate: Maxwell/Perceval Maxwell

Associated Families

• Maxwell/Perceval Maxwell
• Perceval Maxwell
• Moore (Moorehill)
• Perceval (Waterford)

Description

The Percevals were related to the Perceval family of Temple House, county Sligo and descend from the Very Reverend William Perceval, Archdeacon of Cashel and Dean of Emly. In 1809 the Reverend Willliam Perceval of Kilmore Hill, county Waterford, married Anne Maxwell of Finnebrogue, county Down. In 1839, their eldest son, Robert Perceval Maxwell, married Helena Anne, only daughter and heiress of William Moore of Moore Hill, county Waterford, nephew of the 1st Earl Mountcashel. William Moore owned land in the parishes of Glanworth, barony of Fermoy and Clondulane, barony of Condons and Clangibbon, county Cork at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s Robert Percival Maxwell of Groomsport House, Belfast, owned 695 acres in county Cork, 2,353 acres in county Tipperary, over 8,000 acres in county Down and a smaller estate in county Meath. His younger brother, William John Perceval Maxwell, inherited Moore Hill. In 1906 he was the owner and the house was valued at £37. The Tipperary estate originally belonged to the Maynards and passed through the possession of the Foulke and Moore families to the Perceval Maxwells.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Moorehill (H3935) Held in fee by William Moore at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £55. Lewis also refers to it as his seat in 1837. Wilson, writing in 1786, notes it a the seat of Rev. Mr. Moore. In 1894 and 1906 it was the property of Captain William Perceval Maxwell and valued at over £70. In 1943 the ITA survey noted it as the residence of Captain Maxwell and mentioned that it was an eighteenth century house. It is still extant and occupied.	Moorehill	Kilwatermoy	Lismore	Kilwatermoy East 67	Coshmore & Coshbride	Waterford	Lat/Lon: 52.08364 -7.94164 OSI Ref: X040924 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #29.
Sapperton House (H3936) Held in fee by the Moore estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when it was valued at £37. It is described as a farm-house. Lewis refers to it as the seat of S. Moore in 1837. Wilson, writing in 1786, notes Sapperton as the seat of Major Moore. It was inherited by Willam Percival Maxwell. In 1906 he was the owner and the house was valued at £37. Sapperton, as well as its extensive farmyard, is still extant and occupied.	Sapperton North	Kilwatermoy	Lismore	Kilwatermoy East 67	Coshmore & Coshbride	Waterford	Lat/Lon: 52.08993 -7.93142 OSI Ref: X047931 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #28.

Archival sources

• National Archives of Ireland: Records of the Cahir Estate Company, including records of estates of the Earl of Glengall, (later Charteris, later Cahir estate), R. P. Maxwell, Solomon Watson, Sidney Murdoch, and Mrs. Norah Cole Baker, in Co. Tipperary, 1826-1966. Ref No 976
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of grant of arms to Robert Perceval of Kilmore Hill, Co. Waterford on his assuming by Royal Licence in conformity with the desire of his maternal uncle, John Waring Maxwell of Finnebrogue, Co. Down, the name and arms of Perceval Maxwell, August 7, 1839. Genealogical Office: Ms.107, pp.166-7
• Public Record Office, Northern Ireland: Perceval Maxwell Papers, 1606-1969. T1023, D1556, D2480, D3244 & D3817
• Waterford County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files: Barony of Coshmore & Coshbride.

Contemporary printed sources

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

• BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.305
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 301
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 129
• SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) : xxx, 251 (Moorehill)

Modern printed sources

• Down Survey: yearbook of Down county museum: BLACK, Eileen. Keeping it in the family: the Percevale Maxwell portraits in Down county museum. (2001), pp.9-14.
• Jnl. of the Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland: Obituary of Major Robert Perceval-Maxwell. Ser. 5, Vol. XVI, pp. 101-102, 1906
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 816-819
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Special Lists.: Perceval Maxwell Papers, 1640-1883. Special List 147

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