Estate: McSweeney/MacSwiney (Cork)

Associated Families

• McSweeney

Description

In the mid 19th century the representatives of John McSweeny held land in the county Cork parishes of Kilnaglory and St Finbarrs, barony of Cork, and John McSweeney held land in the parish of Drishane, barony of West Muskerry. In the 1870s various members of the McSweeney family owned acreages of 100+ around Cork city and John McSweeney of Macroom owned 599 acres. The MacSwiney family originally held land at Mashanaglass near Macroom. Valentine Emanuel Patrick MacSwiney (1871-1945), son of Valentine P. MacSwiney, a banker, was born in Paris and created a Marquess by Pope Leo XIII.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Roxborough (H3469) Wilson, writing in 1786, refers to "Rocksborough" as the seat of Mr. Ball. The residence of Bent Ball in 1814 and of - McSweeny in 1837, this house was unoccupied in the early 1850s when it was valued at £22. The immediate lessor was Sir A. Brooke. The house has disappeared by the time the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map was published in the 1890s and the Youghal branch of the Great Southern & Western railway constructed close by.	Roxborough	Inchinabacky	Middleton	Middleton Rural 268	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.92269 -8.13956 OSI Ref: W904 745 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #76.
Ballynora (H4095) A house valued at £14 and held by Thomas Magner in the mid 19th century from the representatives of John McSweeny.	Ballynora	Kilnaglory	Cork	Ballincollig 65	Cork	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.84947 -8.57183 OSI Ref: W606 665 Discovery map #86. OS Sheet #85.

Archival sources

• National Library of Ireland: MacSwiney of Mashanaglass Papers, Acc No 4330, PC 12968
• National Library of Ireland: Draft pedigrees and notes on the family of MacSwiney of Macroom, and Mashanaglass, Co. Cork, later Papal Marquises, c.1750 -- 1900. Genealogical Office: Ms. 820(4)
• National Library of Ireland: Copy of confirmation of arms to the descendants of Valentine MacSwiney of Macroom by Margaret Cremen, and to his grandson, Valentine Emmanuel Patrick MacSwiney of Paris, Chamberlain to his Holiness Pope Leo XIII and only son of Valentine MacSwiney by Emma Issabella Countess Konarska daughter of Alexander Count Konarska of Poland, with mention of descent from MacSwiney of Mashanaglass, Sept.17, 1895. Genealogical Office: Ms. 110, pp. 186-7
• Public Record Office, Northern Ireland: Accounts relating to Meadstown, Co. Cork, H. C. Bowen and J. R. Nettles, 1775. Exchequer order Nettles v. Mc Sweeny, 1784. Case of lands of Coolnagillagh, Co. Cork, 1784. Conveyance of Drishanebeg and Coolnagillagh, A. and E. Nettles to R. Nettles Dec., 1785. D. 350 (37-40)

Contemporary printed sources

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• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Cork Barony, 28 (Ballynora)
• 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] : 299
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 16 (Roxborough)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 129
• WILSON, William. The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 346 (Rocksborough [Ball])

Modern printed sources

• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: O'MAHONY, Eoin. Obituary of Valentine, Marquess MacSwiney of Mashanaglass. Ser. 2, Vol. L, p. 68, 1945