A Snapshot of the Finances of Cork 19th Century Magistrates, Rent Rolls, Probates, Building Projects.

At the other end of the spectrum a labourer gave evidence to a Parliamentary Commission sitting in Skibbereen in the 1840s that if he managed to get work for a tenant farmer possibly on the Becher estate the pay was 4d per day.

 

Cork Magistrates:

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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.  Date of death and value of estate.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sir John Arnott (1814-1898), Businessman, Landowner, Newspaper owner, £694,306

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

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