Estate: McCarthy (Cork)

Associated Families

• McCarthy (Cork)
• McCarthy-O'Leary

Description

Alexander McCarthy was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Kilgarvan, barony of Glanarought, county Kerry, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. He also held land in the county Cork parishes of Bregoge, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Kilmichael, barony of West Muskerry and St Finbarrs, barony of Cork. Florence McCarthy also held land in the parishes of Clonpriest and Kilmacdonogh, barony of Imokilly. The estate of Alexander McCarthy, of Cork, amounted to almost 3000 acres in county Kerry in the 1870s as well as over 1000 acres in county Cork. Alexander McCarthy (1803-1868) was a barrister and Member of Parliament for Cork city and the county at various times. He was a cousin of the McCarthy O'Learys.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Currymount (H2901) Lewis gives J. O'Leary as the proprietor of Currymount in 1837. By the time of Griffith's Valuation Currymount was held by Alexander McCarthy in fee and was valued at £7.10 shillings. Hajba writes that Alexander McCarthy left Currymount to his brother in law James Morrogh, third son of James Morrogh of the city of Cork. The house was considerably extended post Griffith's Valuation. James McCarthy of Currymount owned 259 acres in the 1870s. In the late 19th century Eustace Morrogh Bernard lived at Curraghmore. Bought by the Purcells of Burton Park in the second decade of the 20th century as a dower house and passed by marriage to the Bird family.	Currymount	Bregoge	Mallow	Churchtown 238	Orrery and Kilmore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.23957 -8.73349 OSI Ref: R499 100 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #16.
Cleve Hill (H3811) Samuel Perrott was residing at Cleve Hill in 1837 and in the early 1850s when the house was valued at £68 and held from Alexander McCarthy. Cleve Hill a modern family mansion on 13 acres was advertised for sale in October 1873, the estate of Joseph Gadsden Nash and Arthur Power Harty, bankrupts.	Ballintemple	St Finbars	Cork	Blackrock 95	Cork	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.89588 -8.44021 OSI Ref: W697 716 Discovery map #87. OS Sheet #74.

Archival sources

Contemporary printed sources

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1850-1858. : Barony of Orrery and Kilmore, 17 (Currymount)
• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND, 1850-1858. : Cork Barony, 57 (Ballintemple)
• 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: 287
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 128, 143

Modern printed sources

• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XIX, 2nd Series (1913), 294-296 (Currymount)
• BURKE, Sir Bernard. A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 459-460
• HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 137

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