Seward (Cos Galway & Cork)

"The General Armory" records the granting of arms to Henry Osburne Seward of Lee Cottage and Douglas, county Cork and Newcastle, county Limerick. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Henry Osborne Seward held land in the parishes of Inchigeelagh, barony of West Muskerry and Carrigrohanebeg, barony of East Muskerry, county Cork. Members of the Seavers/Seward family including H.O. Seward also held land in the barony of Fermoy parishes of Rahan, Mallow and Mourneabbey and in the barony of Cork, parishes of Carrigaline and St Finbarrs. At the same time Joshua Seward was leasing almost 200 acres from James Egan at Drummaan East, barony of Leitrim, county Galway. "The Freeman's Journal" (29 Sept 1863) records the marriage of Mary daughter of Joshua W. Seward of Dromaun House, Co Galway and Henry Bentley of Shannon View, county Clare in September 1863. In the 1870s Joshua W. Seward of Rathgar, county Dublin, owned 838 acres in county Cork and 117 acres in county Limerick.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Williamstown Hotel	Drummaan South	Clonrush	Scariff	Drummaan 132	Leitrim	Galway	OSI Ref: R780884 OS Sheet: 135 Discovery map: 59
Knockbrack	Drummaan East	Clonrush	Scariff	Drummaan 132	Leitrim	Galway	OSI Ref: R772891 OS Sheet: 135 Discovery map: 59
Rock Lodge	Coolatanavally	Carrigrohanebeg	Cork	Carrigrohanebeg 66	East Muskerry	Cork	OSI Ref: W592 736 OS Sheet: 73 Discovery map: 80
Bearforest Upper	Bearforest Upper	Mallow	Mallow	Mallow Rural 250	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 80
Springmount	Bearforest Upper	Mallow	Mallow	Mallow Rural 250	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 80
Rockforest Lodge	Lavally Upper	Rahan	Mallow	Rahan 255	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: W603 985 OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 80
Lee Cottage	Bishop's Mill Lands	St Finbars	Cork	Bishopstown 96	Cork	Cork	OSI Ref: W659 712 OS Sheet: 74 Discovery map: 87

Archival sources

Copy of confirmation of arms being Seward quartering Osburne and Scott to Henry Osburne Seward of Lee Cottage and Douglas, Co. Cork and Newcastle, Co. Limerick, July 26, 1844. Genealogical Office: Ms.107, pp.296-7 ; National Library of Ireland
Baker, Ringwood & Gordon, solicitors' collection, includes leases of a house in Douglas, Co Cork from Henry Osborne Seward to Richard Lane & Michael Hogan, 1845 & 1847. Small Accs. Index 105, D.21,832-21,833; National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Scariff Union, 75.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 224.
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Muskerry Barony, 41 (Coolatanavally)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 134
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. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 409
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 129 (Bearforest Upper), 170 (Lavally Upper)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 360 (Spring-mount, A. O'Connor)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Cork Barony, 66 (Bishop's Mill Lands)

Modern printed sources

HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 315, 337
''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). XXVI, 2nd Series (1920), 222-223 (Springmount)