Bernard/Morrogh-Bernard

According to Burke, Edward Murrough married Martha Bernard of the county Kerry family and their son John took the name Bernard on inheriting his mother’s family property. John Morrogh Bernard was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Kilbonane, barony of Magunihy and Killinane, barony of Iveragh at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. Lands on lease from the Bernard estate to John Shea Lawlor were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in January 1856. The Morrogh Bernard estate in Kerry amounted to over 7000 acres in Kerry in the 1870s. Edward Bernard of Killarney is also recorded as the owner of over 900 acres in county Wexford. Walter Morrogh was the proprietor of over 500 acres in county Kerry at this time. In the 1940s the Irish Tourist Association survey makes reference to "a nun (Mother Arsenius) , a member of the Bernard family, who founded the Foxford Woollen mills". The descendants of the Bernard family were said to be living in Italy in the early 1940s. Agnes Morrogh Bernard, later Mother Arsenius of the Sisters of Charity, foundress of the Foxford Woollen Mills in county Mayo in 1892, was a member of this family.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Gortroe Lodge	Gortroe	Aghadoe	Killarney	Killarney Rural 71	Magunihy	Kerry	OSI Ref: V943922 OS Sheet: 66 Discovery map: 78
Ballynagare House	Ballynagare	Dysert	Listowel	Kiltomy 104	Clanmaurice	Kerry	OSI Ref: Q894309 OS Sheet: 15 Discovery map: 63
Altavilla	Farrantoreen	Killorglin	Killarney	Killorglin 80	Trughanacmy	Kerry	OSI Ref: V782958 OS Sheet: 56 Discovery map: 78
Fahagh Court	Faha East	Kilbonane	Killarney	Aglish	Magunihy	Kerry	OSI Ref: v886964 OS Sheet: 57 Discovery map: 78
Rockfield	Rockfield Middle	Kilbonane	Killarney	Rockfield	Magunihy	Kerry	OSI Ref: V881986 OS Sheet: 57 Discovery map: 78
Byblox	Byblox	Doneraile	Mallow	Doneraile 242	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R594 078 OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 73
Old Court (Doneraile)	Oldcourt	Doneraile	Mallow	Doneraile 242	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R595 087 OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 73
Sheheree Cottage	Sheheree	Killarney	Killarney	Coolies 70	Magunihy	Kerry	OSI Ref: V987886 OS Sheet: 67 Discovery map: 78
Currymount	Currymount	Bregoge	Mallow	Churchtown 238	Orrery and Kilmore	Cork	OSI Ref: R499 100 OS Sheet: 16 Discovery map: 73

Archival sources

Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Lawlor, 18 January 1856, Vol 38, MRGS 39/0018, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Irish Tourist Association Survey Files, 1942-43: Parish of Milltown (Faha Court); Kerry Library, Local History & Archives Section
Irish Tourist Association survey files, Parish of Buttevant.; Cork County Library

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Magunihy Barony: 7 (Gortroe Lodge), 28 (Faha East)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.I, 14: (Aghadoe Parish), 591 (Dysert Parish), Vol.II, 152 (Killorglin Parish)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 141
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] : 31
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Clanmaurice Barony: 54 (Ballynagare)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 22 (Ballynagare)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 255 (Faha East), 257 (Rockfield)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of names of proprietors and area and valuation of properties in counties in Ireland, held in fee or perpetuity or long leases at chief rents,'' 1876. (412) LXXX. 395: 75.
SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxvi, 217(Faha Court)
WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 362 (Fagha [Falvey])

Modern printed sources

BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1912: 42
Bary, Valerie. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes of some Houses of Kerry'' Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1994. : 39 (Ballynagare), 109 (Faha), 136 (Gortroe)
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 51 (Byblox), 123 (Fahagh Court)
MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 104
HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 90 (Byblox), 289-290 (Old Court)
WALFORD, Edward. 'The County families of the United Kingdom''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1885): p.80 (Morrogh Bernard)