Oliver (Kerry & Cork)
The first of the Oliver family, originally from Kent, to hold lands in the south of Ireland was Robert Oliver, a Cromwellian officer, granted lands in the baronies of Clanmaurice, county Kerry and Coshlea, county Limerick, in the 1660s. Rev. Robert Oliver was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Ballymacelligott, barony of Trughanacmy and Killury, barony of Clanmaurice, county Kerry, at the time of Griffith's valuation. Silver Oliver was holding several townlands in the parish of Kilmoyly, in the same barony. Maj. Oliver's estate also held townlands in the parish of Kilshenane. In the 1830s the Ordnance Survey Name Books record Henry Oliver of Tralee as agent to the estate of Mrs. York, in the barony of Magunihy. In 1866 and again in 1868, premises in the town of Tralee, the property of Robert and Henry Oliver, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. The Irish Times reports that some of these were bought by Edward Murphy and by Mr. Scott, in trust. The representatives of Maj. Oliver of county Cork held over 1300 acres in county Kerry in the 1870s. The estate of Richard Silver Oliver, of Tadcastle, Yorkshire, consisted of over 4000 acres in county Kerry as well as almost 200 in county Waterford and over 100 in county Kilkenny.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Toanreagh | Toanreagh | Ballyheige | Tralee | Ballynorig 132 | Clanmaurice | Kerry |
OSI Ref: Q775292
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 71 |
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| Drommartin | Drommartin | Rattoo | Listowel | Drommartin 102 | Clanmaurice | Kerry |
OSI Ref: Q851312
OS Sheet: 15 Discovery map: 63 |
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| Listrim House | Listrim | Ardfert | Tralee | Clogherbrien 171 | Trughanacmy | Kerry |
OSI Ref: Q778181
OS Sheet: 28 Discovery map: 71 |
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| Myross Cottage | Bawnlahan | Myross | Skibbereen | Castlehaven South 315 | West Carbery (East) | Cork |
OSI Ref: W202348
OS Sheet: 142 Discovery map: 89 |
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Archival sources
- Deeds relating to the property of the Oliver family in county Kerry, 1667-1784. D.18,989-19,010. ; National Library of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Oliver, 29 November 1866, Vol 83, MRGS 39/040, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Oliver, 12 June 1868, Vol 90, MRGS 39/044, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 144
- 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] : 353
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Clanmaurice Barony: 34(Toanreagh), 156 (Drommartin)
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS County Kerry: Vol.I, Aglish Parish, 75. Ardfert Parish, 113, Ballymacelligott Parish, 215, Ballyheige Parish, 395.
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : West Carbery (East) Barony: 129 (Bawnlahan)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 77
Modern printed sources
- ''Irish Times'': Landed Estates Court Sale reports, 30 November 1866, p.4. 13 June 1868, p.4