Freeman
In the 1770s Edward Deane, son of Joseph Deane and Jane Freeman, inherited the estates of his mother's family the Freemans of Castle Cor, county Cork, and took the additional name of Freeman. His grandson also named Edward Deane Freeman owned estates in both counties Cork (mainly in the barony of Duhallow) and Kerry in the early 1850s and a small amount of land at Baggotstown West, parish of Knockainy, county Limerick. The Ordnance Survey Name Books record Edward Deane Freeman as the proprietor of townlands in the parish of Brosna, county Kerry. The Freeman estates amounting to over 1200 acres in county Kerry, over 4,000 acres in county Cork and over 450 acres in county Limerick plus tithe rent charges were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates' Court between June 1850 and July 1851. The properties in the barony of Dunkerron South, county Kerry, were occupied by the Taylor and Strange families. Dunkerron House, occupied by the Taylors, was still being leased from the Freeman estate at the time of Griffith's Valuation. 238 acres at Baggotstown West, county Limerick were advertised for sale in March 1852 and again in November when about 2,500 acres of the county Cork estate were also put on the market. This sale included the house and demesne of Castlecor. The rental contains a lithograph of the house. The Freemans of Ballymague, parish of Caherduggan, barony of Fermoy, county Cork, were a junior branch of the Freeman family of Castlecor.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Dunkerron House | Dunkerron | Templenoe | Kenmare | Reen 45 | Dunkerron South | Kerry |
OSI Ref: V883704
OS Sheet: 92 Discovery map: 78 |
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| Parkgariffe | Claddanure West | Templenoe | Kenmare | Reen 45 | Dunkerron South | Kerry |
OSI Ref: V891713
OS Sheet: 93 Discovery map: 78 |
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| Castlecor | Castlecor Demesne | Kilbrin | Kanturk | Castlecor 160 | Duhallow | Cork |
OSI Ref: R445 067
OS Sheet: 24 Discovery map: 73 |
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| Glenshelane Cottage | Lyre East | Lismore & Mocollop | Lismore | Cappoquin 60 | Coshmore & Coshbride | Waterford |
OSI Ref: S114011
OS Sheet: 21 Discovery map: 74 |
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Archival sources
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Freeman, 4 June 1850, Vol 1, MRGS 39/001, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Freeman, 24 January 1851, Vol 5, MRGS 39/002, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Freeman, 31 July 1851, Vol 10, MRGS 39/004, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Freeman, 19 Mar 1852, Vol 14 (20), MRGS 39/002 & 39/006, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Freeman, 26 Nov 1852, Vol 19 (28), MRGS 39/009, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Map of Kilreely & part of Oldtown, Co Limerick, belonging to William Freeman, 1725. 16 H 22(10); National Library of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Freeman, 27 June 1851, Vol 10 (37), MRGS 39/004, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Bruce & Freeman, (Knockanroe East), 19 Mar 1870, Vol 96 (23), MRGS 39/046, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Maps of Knockballymartin, Curragh, Ballyhesty etc, Co. Cork, the property of E. D. Freeman. 1836. 15 B. 14 (1-5) ; National Library of Ireland
- Map of part of Ballymcpierse, the property of Edward Deane Freeman, of Castle Cor (Co. Cork), now in the possession of Daniel Connell. Done by Patrick Curtin of Kilbrin. (c. 1845). 15 B. 13 (33) ; National Library of Ireland
- Copy of grant of Arms to Edward Dean to take and use the surname and Arms of Freeman pursuant of the will of his uncle, Mathew Freeman of Castle Cor, Co. Cork, Jan. 20, 1784. GO MS 103: 94; National Library of Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Herbert/Freeman, 26 February 1864, Vol 71, MRGS 39/039, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- British Records Association Deposit (1950) included leases of lands in barony of Duhallow from members of the Dickson & Boyle (Earl of Shannon) families to members of the Freeman, Carthy, Foote, MacGhee, Keeffe, Boyle, Purdon, Allen, Purcell, Pike, Creagh, Wrixon, Longfield, Holmes, Fitzgerald, Purdon, Trant,, Delaney, Herrick, Reilly, Leader & Barry families, 1715-1857. Small Accs. Index 102; National Archives of Ireland
- O'Connor & Dudley, solicitor's collection, includes dees re Ballymague & Summer Park, Co Cork, 1759-1871. Small Accs. Index 66, D.8986-9005; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS County Kerry: Vol.I, Brosna Parish, 288.
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Duhallow, 102 (Castlecor Demesne)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 56-57 (Castle Cor)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 98 (Castle-cor)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 123
- SMITH, Charles, M.D. ''The ancient and present state of the county and city of Cork. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical and topographical description thereof ''. First published 1750. This edition published Cork: John Connor, 1815: I, 299
- TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 183 (Castlecor)
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 357 (Castle Cor)
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: I, 489-491
- BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 65 (Castle Cor)
- ''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). XVII, 2nd Series (1911), 63- (Castlecor)
- LYONS, Mary C. ''Illustrated Incumbered Estates, Ireland, 1850-1905.'' Whitegate, county Clare: Ballinakella Press, 1993. : 45-46 (Castlecor)
- BURKE, John & BURKE, John Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Henry Colburn, 1847: I, 447 (Freeman of Castle Cor)