Swanton
The Swantons were a Methodist family who were heavily involved in industrial projects in West Cork in the nineteenth century. The estate of James H. Swanton amounted to over 6000 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. Other family members also held estates of 1,000 acres or more in the Ballydehob locality. Both James and Anne Swanton were among the principal lessors in the parish of Kilcoe, barony of West Carbery, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Robert Swanton was leasing townlands in the parish of Skull at the same time. In May 1865, commercial premises in the town of Bandon, the property of John Clerke Swanton and Jane Swanton, a widow, were offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court. These properties were purchased by Jeremiah Coughlan, George Pope and Thomas R. Sullivan, in trust.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Lurriga Mill | Lurriga | Abbeystrowry | Skibbereen | Skibbereen Rural 309 | West Carbury (East) | Cork |
OSI Ref: W125349
OS Sheet: 141 Discovery map: 89 |
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| Rinneen House & Mills | Carrigtishane | Castlehaven | Skibbereen | Castlehaven North 317 | West Carbery (East) | Cork |
OSI Ref: W182332
OS Sheet: 142 Discovery map: 89 |
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| Brade House | Brade | Myross | Skibbereen | Castlehaven North 317 | West Carbery (East) | Cork |
OSI Ref: W198364
OS Sheet: 142 Discovery map: 89 |
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| Ballydehob Cottage | Ballydehob | Skull | Skull | Ballydehob 329 | West Carbery (West) | Cork |
OSI Ref: V985353
OS Sheet: 140 Discovery map: 88 |
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| Rickfield Cottage (Skull) | Gortnagrough | Skull | Skull | Ballybane 328 | West Carbery (West) | Cork |
OSI Ref: V992392
OS Sheet: 131 Discovery map: 88 |
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| Rickfield (Skull) | Gortnagrough | Skull | Skull | Ballybane 328 | West Carbery (West) | Cork |
OSI Ref: V990388
OS Sheet: 131 Discovery map: 88 |
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| Laragh House | Laragh | Kilbrogan | Bandon | Kilbrogan 4 | Kinalmeaky | Cork |
OSI Ref: W452552
OS Sheet: 96, 110 Discovery map: 86 |
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Archival sources
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Swanton, 19 May 1865, Vol 76, MRGS 39/037, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Sparse annotations by Thomas Swanton, Cranluith, Ballydehob, co. Cork, on De Vere Conyers's Irish-English Dictionary Gaelic Ms. 76 ; University College Cork, Boole Library Archives
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : West Carbury (East) Barony: 18 (Lurriga), 129 (Brade)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 135
- 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] : 435
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : West Carbery (West) Barony: 60 (Skull), 84 (Gortnagrough)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 250 (Ballydehob)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.II, 57(Kilbrogan Parish)
Modern printed sources
- ''Skibbereen & District Historical Society Journal'': DALY, Eugene. Thomas Swanton: Protestant landlord and Irish language enthusiast. III (2007),, pp.85-99.
- ''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: Ó Conchúir, Brendán. Thomas Swanton: Reamhchonraitheoir in Iar-Chairbre. XCVIII (1993), pp.50-60.
- ''Southern Star'': COOMBES, J. The Swantons of Ballydehob. 26 February 1977.
- DALY, Eugene. ''Leap and Glandore Fact and Folklore''. Leap: Heron's Way Press, 2005: 115-116
- ''Irish Times'': Landed Estates Court sales, 20 May 1865, p.4