Estate: Jackson (Ahanesk)

Associated Families

• Sadleir (Ballintemple & Shrone Hill)
• Jackson (Ahanesk)

Description

This family was settled at Ballyduff and Glanbeg, county Waterford by the end of the 17th century. By the early 19th century the head of the family, Edward Rowland Jackson, was residing at Castleview, county Cork. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Jackson estate was located in the parishes of Mogeesha and Little Island, barony of Barrymore, and Kilcorcoran, barony of Duhallow, county Cork. Warren Hastings Rowland Jackson died in 1851. In the 1870s his son, William O. Jackson of Ahanesk, Midleton, owned 3,491 acres in county Cork and 1,052 acres in county Waterford. William's only daughter Cherry married Henry Sadlier of the county Tipperary family and they eventually inherited Ahanesk. In 1850 the house at Glenbeg, county Waterford, and 175 acres, the property of George Bennett Jackson, were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ahanesk (H3470) A house on the shore of Cork Harbour occupied by William Oliver Jackson at the time of Griffith's Valuation and held by him in fee. It was valued at £24. In 1906 a mansion house in the townland of Ballyvodock East was valued at £98. The house passed by marriage to the Sadlier Jackson family and in the mid 20th century became the home of the Lomers.	Ballyvodock East	Mogeesha	Middleton	Middleton Rural 268	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.88485 -8.20044 OSI Ref: W862 703 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #76.
Ballyvodock House (H3471) James Barry was living at Ballyvodig House, Middleton, in 1814. In the mid 19th century William Kelleher was the occupier. He held the property from William Oliver Jackson and the buildings were valued at £11. A house and large farm are still extant at the site.	Ballyvodock East	Mogeesha	Middleton	Middleton Rural 268	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.89831 -8.20922 OSI Ref: W856 718 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #76.
Rock Farm (H3507) The home of John Cantillon in 1837 and in the early 1850s when it was valued at £16 and held from Warren Hastings Rowland Jackson.	Ballytrasna	Little Island	Cork	Caherlag 107	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.89709 -8.34869 OSI Ref: W760 717 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #75.
Carrigrenan (H3508) Occupied by J. M. Ashlin (father of the architect George Ashlin) in 1837 and by the Reverend Robert Bury in the early 1850s. He held the house valued at £37 from Warren H. R. Jackson. The home of the Sullivans in the 20th century.	Carrigrenan	Little Island	Cork	Caherlag 107	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.88814 -8.33410 OSI Ref: W770 707 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #75.
Castleview (H3509) A Jackson property which was unoccupied in 1837. By the time of Griffith's Valuation Robert Delacour Beamish was resident in the house valued at £34 which he held from the Jacksons. The house was sometimes known as Ditchley House. Now functions as the Radisson Hotel, Little Island.	Castleview	Little Island	Cork	Caherlag 107	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.90605 -8.35603 OSI Ref: W755 727 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #75.
Glenbeg House (Lismore) (H3993) In 1851 Glenbeg House was owned by Thomas Foley but was vacant. It was valued at £23 10s at that time. In 1837 Lewis refers to it as the seat of G. Bennett Jackson. The original house dates from the mid-sveenteenth century though it was renovated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Smith, writing in 1774, refers to it as the seat of Mr. John Jackson. Sadleir, referring to Rowland Jackson in 1775, notes that he was "of Glanbeg". Brady notes that the Jacksons were employed by the first Earl of Cork in the early seventeenth century. Described as "an ordinary farmhouse" in the ITA Survey in 1942. It is still extant and occupied.	Glenbeg	Lismore & Mocollop	Lismore	Castlerichard 55	Coshmore & Coshbride	Waterford	Lat/Lon: 52.14028 -8.03214 OSI Ref: W978987 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #20.

Archival sources

• National Archives of Ireland: Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Jackson, 18 June 1850, Vol 1, MRGS 39/001, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
• National Library of Ireland: Map of the townlands of Gardeen, Knoppoge and Lisheenowen, [parish of Kilcorcoran], Co. Cork. By W. C. Ryder and K. D. Roche. Quarto sheet, coloured, and with names of tenants, (1875?). 15 B. 22 (25)
• National Library of Ireland: Lismore Castle Papers, rental & other documents re sale of Glanbeg and West Ballygally, Co Waterford, in Encumbered Estates Court, 1850. Collection List 129. MS 43,951
• National Library of Ireland: Map of the lands of Farnane Upper, in the parish of Lickoran, Co. Waterford, the property of W. H. R. Jackson, by F. A. Klein. Quarto sheet, coloured, with names of tenants, Feb., 1857. Manuscript map: 16 J. 6 (13)

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. : Barrymore Barony, 187 (Ballyvodock East), 48 (Ballytrasna), 50 (Carrigrenan & Castleview)
• BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.239
• 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] : 234
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 57 (Ballyvodig - James Barry)
• LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol II, 283-285 (Lismore), 290 (Carrigrenan - J.M. Aslin, Rockfarm - J. Cantillon & Castleview),
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 245 (Ballyvodock East)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 126

Modern printed sources

• Jnl of the Waterford and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society : Sadleir, Thomas U. The county of Waterford, 1775: principal gentry. XVI (1913), pp.49-55.
• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 3 (Ahanesk)
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: I, 982
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 1140 (Trench re Sadlier Jackson)
• MOORE, Michael. Archaeologial inventory of County Waterford. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999. : 232 (Glenbeg)
• SMITH, Charles. The ancient and present state of the county and city of Waterford. Third edition edited by Donald Brady. Wateford : Waterford County Council, 2008. : 33 (Glanbeg)
• SMITH, Charles. The ancient and present state of the county and city of Waterford. Third edition edited by Donald Brady. Wateford : Waterford County Council, 2008. : BRADY, Donald. Appendix III, houses mentioned by Smith. p 306.