Sample Grant of Letters of Administration, 1826, Dr. Bell, Surgeon, Cork, from Court of prerogative, Archbishop of Armagh.

Prior to Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland it was the State Church of Ireland. Many functions now carried out by the State including Probate were carried out by the Church as successor of the Medieval Church in Ireland.

Letters from White of Bantry, later Earl of Bantry to General Lake, British Officer Commanding Bantry, West Cork, post attempted French Invasion, 1799.

‘Livings’, Dioceses of Cork and Ross (Church of Ireland) c 1810 listing Incumbents extent of Parishes Observations. From the records of the Cathedral of St. Fibarrs, Cork.

Tenants of Hedges Eyre Estate, town of Macroom, Co. Cork, c 1810.

Hedges Eyre Magistrates:

Richard Hedges, 1706
Robert Hedges, 1794, Mount Hedges

Richard Eyre, 1753, Macroom?
Robert Hedges Eyre, Pre 1831, Macroom Castle, supported application 1808 of James B O’Sullivan, Linen and Paper Manufacturer, Dripsey to be Appointed Justice of the Peace.

 

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Snapshot of Finances of Bantry Estate, 1888, West Cork, requested by Lord Ardilaun (one of the Guinness Family married  to Whites) showing rents of £11,600 for Bantry and £4,800 for Macroom, totalling £14,000 (present day €1.5 million), deficit of £2,035, with rent reductions for tenants of 25%.

The Estate had heavy outlays in mortgages, Jointures (payments for female relatives), life insurance, tithes tax leaving very little for living expenses, a common feature of Irish Estates.

Some Financial details of 19th century Cork Magistrates:

Finance/Probate

To get some idea of comparative values, an RIC man in 1900 earnings allowing for uniform, accommodation and pension say €75 per annum, Garda say €30,000 net in 2016 a factor of 400 perhaps on the high side or Resident Magistrate €500 per annum District Justice €90,000 net of income tax, factor of 180.

 

Annual Estate Rent rolls estimate 1811, Bandon £30,000, Devonshire (Cork), John Smith-Barry, Lord Shannon, Lord Kingsborough, Longfield all £20,000

Mitchelstown Castle 1820s cost of building £100-200, 000, never lived in, burned 1919-1922 now Co-Op.

Richard Townsend rent roll 1820s estimate £8,000.

Rev. Alleyn Evanson, Durrus, 1853, £5 (may be nominal for conveyancing).

Sir William Henry Lyons, 1858, Glanmire Road Cork, Merchant, probate £20,000.

William Fagan, 1859 £16,000, MP, Feltrim, Cork,

Paul Limrick, Solicitor, 1864, Union Hall, £180.

Becher Lionel Fleming (1821-1869), Landlord, Probate £1,400, 1869 to Becher L. Fleming, Oldcourt and Rev.Horace Fleming, Kilnagross, Clonakilty.

Colonel Morgan William O’Donovan or ‘The O’Donovan’, 1870, Montpelier, Douglas and Lissard, Skibbereen, Landlord, £35,000.

Richard  Quin/Quinn, 1870, Fir Grove, Innishannon, Landlord, £10,000.

Sir Thomas Deane Knight 1871,  Architect, 26 Longfield Terrace, Dublin, £14,000

Ludlow Bamish, Brewer, Cork, 1872, £5,000

Richard Wallis Goold Adams 1873 James Brook, Cloyne.  Landlord and Land Agent, £4,000.

Timothy O’Donovan, Landlord, Durrus, 1874, £2,000.

Daniel Donegan, 1874, Carrigmore, Cork, 1874, £20,000, by order of Court Donegan v Donegan.

Francis 3rd Earl of Bandon, Landlord, 1877, £18,000.

George Achilles Daunt, 1878, Landlord, Compass Hill. Kinsale, £7,000.

James Redmond Barry, Glandore, Landlord,  Fishery Commissioner, 1879, £1,500.

Sir Thomas Tobin 1881, Gunpowder Manufacturer, Ballincollig,  Probate in Ireland £5,303

Nicholas Dunscombe, 1882, £6,358.

Richard Donovan, Clerk of Crown, Lisheens, Ballincollig, 1883, £10,164.

Richard Wheeler Doherty, 1883, Oak Villa, Bandon, Merchant, Land Agent, £8,170.

Thomas  Fuge, Rock Lodge, Youghal, 1883, £2,386.

William Wise, 1884, Dundanion, Blackrock, Cork, £51,000.

Edward Day Stokes, Corbally House, Riverstown, 1885, £1,259.

James Fownes Norton Wise, 1886, Rostellan Castle, Midleton, Ramsgate, £19,849.

Captain John McDonell Webb, Rosanna, The Hill, Douglas, Cork, 1886

Edward Bayly Warburton 1888, Resident Magistrate, Bantry, £1,385.

Finances of Bantry Estate, 1888, requested by Lord Ardilaun rents of £11,600 for Bantry and £4,800 for Macroom, deficit of £2,035, with rent reductions for tenants of 25%.

John Limrick, 1890, Union Hall, £3,647.

James Hutchinson Swanton, 1891, Miller Landowner, Rineen, Skibbereen, £3,807.

Charles Peter Teulon, 59 North Main St., Bandon, 1892, £14,421.

Dr. Bartholomew W. Verling, 1893, Springfield Lodge (Oxclose), Newmarket, Retired Naval Surgeon, Landlord, Probate £1,792.

Thomas Hoskins Tarrant 1894, Charlesfort, Cobh, £1,252

 

Herbert Webb Gillman, 1898, Landlord,  Clonstead House, Coachford, £2,294

Sir John Arnott, 1898, Businessman, Landowner, Newspaper owner, £694,306.

John Richard Wheeler, 1901, 85 North Main St., Bandon, Captain 2nd Regiment of Foot,  left £1,017.

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Claringbould Powell, 1902, Bawnlahan, Leap, in Ireland £1,886.

Richard Lane Allman, 1904, Distiller, Bandon, £22,034.

Robert Dunscombe 1906, Mount Desert Cork, £841.

Henry Lavellin Puxley, 1909, Landlord, Dunboy Castle, Castletownbere, Llangan Carmarthenshire,   Probate in London Irish estate £2,251

James Clugston Allman, Distiller, Bandon, 1911, £11,789.

Robert Day, 1914, 1889,  Myrtle Hill House, Cork,  Merchant, £46,271.

 

 

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Teerbeg,+Co.+Cork/@51.9062977,-9.019727,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844e4391280b873:0x2600c7a7bb4d4312

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Gurteenroe,+Co.+Cork/@51.9129643,-8.9899116,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844e44ef7158fc7:0x2600c7a819c738c2

Teerbeg a Good and Bradfield property from 1830’s to the 1930’s at least, courtesy Barry Bradfield.

527 537 353288 1800 Oct 20 Bond of Obligation MANNING Richard Land Surveyor Dunmanway, Co Cork WD 29 May 1801 Agreement regarding the lease of the old mill and mill lands of Dunmanway, Co Cork

Map of Townlands of Teerbeg and Gurteenroe, Macroom, Co. Cork, Ireland, by Richard Manning, 1814 for Robert Hedges Eyre Esq.

These maps were often produced as part of the process of proving title for the purpose of raising money. Irish Landlords found it too easy to raise credit this was to have disastrous consequence for many of them later as in the forced sale of Estate by the Landed Estates Court in the 1860s.

Richard Manning’s maps of the Jermyn Estate, Aughadown

and the https://durrushistory.com/2015/11/20/estate-of-henry-jermyn-esq-aughadown-skibbereen-west-cork-1275-acres-part-survey-of-killsarlaghta-aughadown-1790-by-john-molony-ploughland-occupied-by-denis-driscoll-and-syeeygosnell-275-2/

Shouldham  estate in Dunmanway done around the same time are in the Manuscript Library of the National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin.

Some of these records are now in the National Archives some in the RCB Library, Rathgar, Dublin.

 

The Cork Antiquarian Richard Caulfield transcribed by hand many of the records of the Cork churches which wee later destroyed in  1922

 

Bishops of Cork 630 AD to 1807 AD from Records of St. Finbarrs Cathedral Cork.

When the Old Age Pension was introduced it was sometimes necessary for the authorities to enquire to the Public Records Office. This was done by looking at the census of 1841 or 1851 to determine if the applicants date of birth was correct. The original census were destroyed in 1922 and this is evidence in some cases of birth and census entry. It can be consulted in the national Archives in Dublin.

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The work of West Cork Masons, Garryvurcha (Garryvurcha, Garraidhe Uí Mhurchadha Murphys Garden), Church Road, Bantry, Church of Ireland post 1701.

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6035144843696815009

https://durrushistory.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/gravestone-inscriptions-old-bantry-church-of-ireland-graveyard-garryvurcha-garraidhe-ui-mhurchadha-murphys-garden-west-cork/

From the Patent of 15th March 1679 to hold Fairs at Ballygobban (part of present Bantry) to Bantry Market, West Cork, July 2014.

July 2014 Market:

https://plus.google.com/photos/100968344231272482288/albums/6035140813157711873

http://corkgen.org/publicgenealogy/cork/potpourri/corkancestors.com/Bantry.htm