1700. Claims Entered of Lands Forfeit by Rebellion, in Baronies of Bere and Bantry and Carbery, West Cork with Chichester House, Dublin.

The English inserted a veneer of Legality on the forcible seizure of Irish lands with the Chichester House apparatus from 1700. One Estate which succeeded through the process was the O’Regan Estate outside Leap which remained in the extended family until the Land Acts in 1905.

Early Genealogy of Sir Teague O’Regan of Balltnaclohy and Gortniglogh, Killeenlea, near Leap, Carbery West Cork, Temporary holding of lands from 1615 by Sir Walter Coppinger, loss by forfeiture and subsequent restoration under Articles of Treaty of Limerick 1690, later family including fashionable Dr.O’Regan of Mallow and Legal Luminaries, friend of Daniel O’Connell. Estates finally sold by descendants Cagney family early 20th century to tenants.

There are references to the Townsends , in at least one instance they held land in trust for the O’Heas in Barryroe.

Chichester House was opposite Trinity College Dublin on the site on a old Nunnery. It was later demolished to make way for the Irish Parliament and is now the band of Ireland at College Green.

In relation the White claimant tis is the extended Lord Bantry family. The wives name Sheehy adds to Bantry Historians belief that the Whites came from Co. Limerick not the invented spurious Genealogy they conjured up in the early 19th century.

The Browns are referred to, as Catholics (Kenmare Estate) it is remarkable that the Estate survived as there were three generation where only one male heir was born.

The Galweys were major losers but again their survival is remarkable. One one Estate outside Macroom The Hedges Eyre granted a favourable Lease held in trust by Thornhills.

1840 Legal Action on 1740 Deed Whereby Thornhill acted as Trustee for Galweys on Hedges Eyre Macroom, Co. Cork, Estate to Circumvent Penal Laws and Ejectment Action by Hedges Eyre estate in 1840.

Subscription list of donations by the Gentlemen of the Parish of Bantry, sent by Father Peter O’Sullivan, Parish Priest of Bantry, West Cork, 8th January 1732 to Bishop Doctor Teige McCarthy Rabagh, against Penal Laws included are The Worthy Mr. Henry Gallwey £1-10-0 his generous and worthy son £1-3s, Nicholas Mead 5/5d, Andrew Morrogh, William Gallwey, John Casey, Patrick Skiddie, Cornelius Sexton, James Gould, Daniel Leahy, Robert Gallwey, and Richard Casey each contributed 2 shillings 8 pence halfpenny, Conformity and the Fishing Trade, Father Walsh Parish Priest of Durrus, Blackrock and Aonghus Ó Dalaigh, Dromnea, Kilcrohane, poet.

They were also agents to the Shouldham (half McCarthy) estate, Dunmanway and the the Kenmare estate.

Sale by Cant (Highest Bidder) in Chichester House, Dublin 1703 of Galwey lands in East and West Carbery Forfeited, Kilfaghna, Drombeggy, Cullinagh, Dirryleigh, Shrilane, Gortard, Balliisland and ten small islands, Knockeeridane, Castlehaven, Gortard, Creaghm, Coney Island, Baltimore, Raghmore, Cloghanmore, Cloghanbeg, Lissangel, Caheragh, Gortnamuckla Lisalchorig with some tenants listed, Coppingers, Hollow Blade Company, South Sea Bubble.

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