Magistrate, Nathaniel Evanson, 1675, probably Castledonovan.
Gearhameen, originally McCarthy Castle then Durrus Court c 1740:
https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Gearhameen,+Co.+Cork/@51.6261045,-9.5602202,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459e28b250bf55:0x4d51dc58ca16170f
Ardgoeena from c 1740 still there in ownership of Gallagher family,remnants of probable stable still extant main wall of old house collapsed some years ago. Well behind stables.:
https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Ardogeena,+Co.+Cork/@51.6122037,-9.5242018,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fb8f9c0f5c7:0x7554b4a819007bca
Friendly Cove/Murreagh probably from c1790:
https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Murreagh,+Co.+Cork/@51.6143184,-9.5429485,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48459fcb224cb7e3:0x5f4e5fce7b3b237d
There were two large crypts at the sea ward side of St. James Church of the Evansons until a cemetery clearance in the 1930s. The family in England had paid for their maintenance from the late 19th century and when after WW2 they discovered the loss of the tombs with all their detail they were most upset.
Branches of the family were sugar planters and slave owners in Barbados. They expanded into Bandon and Cork where Charles was Mayor. It is difficult to distinguish whether at time the were based in both Bandon and Durrus the house name ‘Brookfield’ may be either Durrus Court or a Bandon House.
Evansons
Dive Downe’s was the bishop of Cork and Ross and in 1700 toured the dioceses he says ‘Mount Gabriel is the haunt of wolves and there are no trees or shelter except rocks and bogs. The patron saint of Durrus is St Faughan in the parish of Durrus i.e. about Four Mile Water and at Blackrock near Bantry are about 30 Protestant families and in that part of the parish which is in Bantry are two English Schools kept by women. All the inhabitants of Kilcrohane are Papists and the land very coarse except for that of the Bishop of Cork’s lands’. He refers to Vicar Thomas Holmes of Kilmacomoge preaching every fourth Sunday at Captain Evanson’s house at Four Mile Water. Nathaniel Evanson the elder was the Lieutenant of Dragoons who received 2,400 acres of O’Donovan lands at Castle Donovan in the 1661. He mortgaged these lands and moved to Four Mile Water. He had three children, Thomas whose son Edward settled in Antigua, a daughter who married John Beamish in 1678 and a son Charles who married Susan Arnopp in 1688 (daughter of Colonel Arnopp of Dunmanway). Their eldest son Nathaniel married Mary Alleyn in 1724 and died at Four Mile Water in 1766. Their son was Alleyn, and his son Nathaniel the third, who was at Four Mile Water in the 1790s was made a Justice of the Peace on the 27th May 1799. They had numerous relations sugar planters in Antigua. He may also have been resident in Bandon. He married Mary Townsend Baldwin in 1784 and their children were Alleyn who was ordained, Nathaniel (1802-29) and Tonson (Richard) who built Friendly Cove probably around 1810. He married Melian Donovan in 1812 who died childless and then Mary Beamish in 1816. Friendly Cove passed to William Beamish Morris who married their daughter Catherine. In Pigot’s Directory of 1824 Nathaniel Evanson and Richard Evanson are at Four Mile Water. Nathaniel Evanson, Sea Lodge, Cork died on 1849 and the Rev. Alleyn Evanson died in 1853. In Slater’s Directory of 1846 Allen Evanson lives at the Court, Richard Tonson Evanson at Friendly Cove, and Richard Tonson Evanson Jnr. at Ardogina. There is no reference to them in Thom’s 1862 Directory. Richard Tonson Evanson was one of the judges of the Bantry Agricultural Show in 1861 and his address was Bantry. Evanson’s Cove is shown, on the northern side of the road as a wooded estate, on the Ordnance survey map of 1842 in Ahakista but does not appear on the later map. There are two references to Evansons of Brookfield, Cork in the King’s Inns Admission rolls for the early 19th.Century. The Rev. A. Evanson sat on a committee in Bantry in 1824 to petition against the withdrawal of the linen bounty.
In 1864 Richard Evanson makes over Friendly Cove to his son-in-law and goes to live in Gurteenroe and in 1869 he has moved to Cork City. That branch of Evanson line died out by the death of the last descendant Catherine Beamish Morris in 1898 aged 80, there are however Evanson descendants living in Cork.
From University College Galway
ESTATE: EVANSON
Associated Families
Description
Local sources suggest that the Evanson family in West Cork descend from Lieutenant Nathaniel Evanson who was granted an estate of 2,373 acres in the barony of West Carbery, county Cork in 1666. Rev. A. Evanson and Richard T. Evanson were among the principal lessors in the parish of Durrus, barony of West Carbery, at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. Rev. William Evanson was also a lessor in the parish of Kilcrohane and Rev. Allan Evanson in the parish of Kilmocomoge, barony of Bantry, at the same time. Lands owned by members of the Evanson family and others, in the parishes of Carrigaline and Durrus, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in November 1862. The sale included Charlemont House, this had ben the residence of Charles, the Mayor of Cork. This property was held under a lease from the Allen family dating from 1800. In the 1870s, Revs, Charles, Robert and Richard Evanson of Llansory rectory, Monmouthshire, Wales, owned over 2000 acres in county Cork. In 1858 Michael Hungerford Morris married Elizabeth Burrows Evanson, daughter of Richard Tonson Evanson and in the 1870s Michael H. Morris of Durrus owned 1,157 acres in county Cork. http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/surnames.beamish/111/mb.ashx
Houses
House Name / Description |
Townland |
Civil Parish |
PLU |
DED |
Barony |
County |
Map Ref |
Ardogeena House (H2670)
At the time of Griffith’s Valuation, Richard T. Evanson was leasing this property to Florence McCarthy when it was valued at £10. In 1837, Lewis noted the house as the seat of R.T. Evanson. It is still extant and occupied. |
Ardogeena |
Durrus |
Bantry |
Durrus East 27 |
West Carbery (West) |
Cork |
Lat/Lon:51.60992
-9.52747OSI Ref:
V942408 Discovery map #88. OS Sheet #130. |
Four Mile Water Court or Durrus Court (H2672)
Rev. Alleyn Evanson was leasing this property from the Earl of Bandon’s estate at the time of Griffith’s Valuation, when it was valued at £15. It is labelled Four Mile Water Court on the 1st edition Ordnance Map and Durrus Court on the later 25-inch edition. In 1837, Lewis recorded it as Four Mile Water Court, the seat of A. Evanson. It is still extant. |
Gearhameen |
Durrus |
Bantry |
Durrus West 28 |
West Carbery (West) |
Cork |
Lat/Lon:51.62046
-9.54660OSI Ref:
V929420 Discovery map #88. OS Sheet #130. |
Friendly Cove (H2675)
Richard T. Evanson was leasing this property from John B. Gumbleton at the time of Griffith’s Valuation, when it was valued at £24. Stores adjoining the property were valued at £6. Leet records this property as the residence of Nathaniel Evanson, jnr. in 1814. The house is still extant and in 2009 was offered for sale. |
Murreagh |
Durrus |
Bantry |
Durrus East 27 |
West Carbery (West) |
Cork |
Lat/Lon:51.61705
-9.53204OSI Ref:
V939416 Discovery map #88. OS Sheet #130. |
Charlemont House (H3834)
Charlemont House was leased by Charles Evanson from Nicholas G. Allen at the time of Griffith’s Valuation, when it was valued at £20. It was included in the sale of Evanson property in the Landed Estates Court in November 1862. It is still extant. |
Monfieldstown |
Carrigaline |
Cork |
Douglas |
Cork |
Cork |
Lat/Lon:51.87444
-8.40225OSI Ref:
W723692 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #75. |
Archival sources
- National Archives of Ireland: Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Evanson, 6 November 1862, Vol 66, MRGS 39/033, (microfilm copy in NUIG)
- National Library of Ireland: Abstract of deed of 25 Sept., 1844, between Rev. Alleyn Evanson of Fourmilewater, and Stephen Sweetman and Maria Sweetman als. Long, his wife, with Trustee, Richard James Long, 1844. Genealogical Office: Ms.144, pp.33 & 37-8
- National Library of Ireland: Investigation into search for acts by Allan Evanson against lands of Ballyboughemore, Carrurmore, Doogh and Litter in the parish of Kilmoe, Barony of West Carbery, Co. Cork, 1849. GO Ms.144, pp.33-40
- National Library of Ireland: Lismore Castle Papers, include rental & other documents re sale of lands in barony of West Carbery, Co Cork, in Encumbered Estates Court, 1854. Collection List 129. MS 43,964
Contemporary printed sources
- GRIFFITH’S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1850-1858. : West Carbery (West) Barony: 113 (Ardogeena), 119 (Gearhameen), 121 (Murreagh)
- GRIFFITH’S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1850-1858. : Barony of Cork: 11 (Monfieldstown)
- 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: 150
- LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen’s seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 190
- LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.I, 591 (Durrus Parish)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. 15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland, 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 64
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties …. in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 122
Modern printed sources
Evansons named in 1837/8 enquiry into fictious votes Cork City
Evanson, the Rev. Alleyn Four-mile Water yes
Evanson, Nathaniel Four-mile Water no
Evanson, Charles Four-mile Water no
Evanson, Abraham M. Four-mile Water no
Evanson,William B. Four-mile Water yes
Evanson, Richard Tonson Ardoguma yes
Evanson, Nathaniel Friendly Cove
Evanson, Nathaniel jun. Four-mile Water no
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