Boyle (Earl of Shannon)

Henry Boyle, a descendent of Richard Boyle, first Earl of Cork, was created Earl of Shannon, baron of Castlemartyr and Viscount Boyle of Bandon in 1756. The Earls of Shannon, whose seat was at Castlemartyr, county Cork, owned over 11,000 acres in the county in the 1870s. The "Ladies Boyle", resident in Courtmacsherry, owned over 7000 acres between them at the same time. The estate was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Ballymodan, Desert, Kilgarriff, Kilnagross and Templebryan in East Carbery, Abbeymahon, Island and Lislee, barony of Ibane & Barryroe and Tracton, barony of Kinalea, Ballyoughtera, Bohillane, Cloyne, Ightermurragh and Mogeely, barony of Imokilly, Clonmeen, barony of Duhallow, Shandrum, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, all in county Cork, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. At the same time, the estate held townlands in the parish of Kilwatermoy, barony of Coshmore and Coshbride, county Waterford. In 1852, over 5000 acres of the Cork estate, including large portions of Bandon town, and 1400 acres of the Waterford estate were offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Still View House (Cottage)	Clogheenavodig	Ballymodan	Bandon	Ballymodan 1	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W502551 OS Sheet: 110 Discovery map: 86
Distillery House	Moanarone	Ballymodan	Bandon	Ballymodan 1	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W503551 OS Sheet: 110 Discovery map: 86
Belleview (Bandon)	Cloghmacsimon	Ballymodan	Bandon	Ballymodan 1	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W490546 OS Sheet: 110 Discovery map: 86
Castlemartyr	Castlemartyr	Ballyoughtera	Middleton	Castlemartyr 260	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: W957 732 OS Sheet: 77 Discovery map: 81
Youghals House	Youghals	Island	Clonakilty	Clonakilty Rural 45	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W390405 OS Sheet: 135 Discovery map: 89
Bushmount	Maulnaskehy	Kilgarriff	Clonakilty	Clonakilty Urban 46	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W380413 OS Sheet: 135 Discovery map: 86
Fern Hill	Tawnies Lower	Kilgarriff	Clonakilty	Clonakilty Rural 45	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W372419 OS Sheet: 135 Discovery map: 86
Lower Tawnies Cottage	Lower Tawnies	Kilgarriff	Clonakilty	Clonakilty Rural 45	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W373416 OS Sheet: 135 Discovery map: 86
Millville	Tawnies Lower	Kilgarriff	Clonakilty	Clonakilty Rural 45	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W378413 OS Sheet: 135 Discovery map: 86
Coolwood House	Fourcuil	Templebryan	Clonakilty	Clonakilty Rural 45	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W384450 OS Sheet: 122 Discovery map: 86
Mahon Abbey House	Abbeymahon	Abbeymahon	Clonakilty	Abbeymahon 58	Ibane & Barryroe	Cork	OSI Ref: W490427 OS Sheet: 136 Discovery map: 87
Lislevane Cottage	Lislevane	Abbeymahon	Clonakilty	Abbeymahon 58	Ibane & Barryroe	Cork	OSI Ref: W476395 OS Sheet: 136 Discovery map: 89
Ballincurrig	Ballincurrig	Lislee	Clonakilty	Courtmacsherry 60	Ibane & Barryroe	Cork	OSI Ref: W513406 OS Sheet: 136 Discovery map: 87
Court Macsherry	Courtmacsherry	Lislee	Clonakilty	Courtmacsherry 60	Ibane & Barryroe	Cork	OSI Ref: W516425 OS Sheet: 136 Discovery map: 87
Kincraigie (Woodview)	Meelmane	Lislee	Clonakilty	Courtmacsherry 60	Ibane & Barryroe	Cork	OSI Ref: W515423 OS Sheet: 136 Discovery map: 87
Lislee House [Lisleetemple Glebe]	Lisleetemple	Lislee	Clonakilty	Courtmacsherry 60	Ibane & Barryroe	Cork	OSI Ref: W509404 OS Sheet: 136 Discovery map: 87
Brookfield (Carrigaline)	Kilnaglery	Carrigaline	Kinsale	Carrigaline 75	Kerrycurrihy	Cork	OSI Ref: OS Sheet: 87, 89 Discovery map: 87
Carewswood	Carewswood	Ightermurragh	Middleton	Ightermurragh 262	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: W972 723 OS Sheet: 77 Discovery map: 81
Ballynacorra	Ballynacorra	Midleton	Middleton	Cloyne 265	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: W881 716 OS Sheet: 76 Discovery map: 81
Knockane	Knockane	Killeagh	Middleton	Ightermurragh 262	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: W983 740 OS Sheet: 77 Discovery map: 81
Casino	Gortnahomnamore	Ightermurragh	Middleton	Ightermurragh 262	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: W964 730 OS Sheet: 77 Discovery map: 81
Ballyhamlet House	Ballyhamlet	Kilwatermoy	Lismore	Kilwatermoy West 68	Coshmore & Coshbride	Waterford	OSI Ref: X018910 OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 81

Archival sources

Shannon Papers. D/2707 Calendar of the private papers of the first, second and third Earls of Shannon, together with estate, legal, financial and family papers 17th-20th., deposited in the National Library of Ireland and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Copy of General rent roll of estates of Earl of Midleton and for properties held in perpetuity by the Earl of Shannon, 1828. U074b; Cork City and County Archives
Shannon Papers, Ms. 13,300 Documents relating to the 1st and 2nd Earls of Shannon, mainly re political and estate affairs, including some letters by the 1st Earl of Shannon and several letters to him from his son, Henry Boyle Walsingham, concerning political and estate affairs, 1760-1769; National Library of Ireland
Shannon Papers, Ms. 13,299 Documents relating to the 1st Earl of Shannon, mainly re political affairs, including references to Castlemartyr estates, Clonakilty Corporation and Cork Militia, 1753-1756. ; National Library of Ireland
Shannon Papers, Letters to members of the family of Boyle, Earls of Shannon, with other papers, 1687-1820, including many addressed to Castle Martyr, Co. Cork, and many to and by the 1st and 2nd Earls of Shannon on public and private affairs; with references to the French invasion of 1796 and the rebellion of 1798. Mss. 13,295-13,306; National Library of Ireland
D.2707 add.Political and personal letters, copy wills, estate papers etc. of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Shannon, c.1720-1781; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Boyle, 13 July 1852, Vol 17, MRGS 39/008, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Marriage settlement of Charles Sackville, eldest son of Duke of Dorset & Grace Boyle only daughter of Richard Boyle, Viscount Shannon, 24 Oct 1744. AMS/5481/1; East Sussex Record Office
Pratt Manuscripts, correspondence between Lord Camden & Richard 2nd Earl of Shannon, 1796-1804. U840/0175; Kent History and Library Centre
Lismore Castle Papers, contain records relating to the Earls of Shannon including rent rolls of the estate, mid 18th century. Collection List 129. ; National Library 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
Irish Tourist Association Survey files, parish of Barryroe, parish of Castlemartyr; Cork County Library

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Carbery (East) Barony: 12 (Clogheenavodig), 13 (Cloghmacsimon), 20 (Moanarone)), 68 (Youghals), 82 (Maulnaskehy), 87 (Tawnies Lower), 141 (Fourcuil)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Ibane & Barryroe Barony, 1 (Abbeymahon), 10 (Lislevane), 49 (Ballincurrig), 58 (Courtmacsherry),64 (Lisleetemple), 65 (Meelmane).
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
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 305 & 616 (Castlemartyr), I, 305 & II, 12 (Carew's Wood), 282 Lislee Parish
BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage....privy councillors and knights''. London: Harrison, 1894. : 1265-1266
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kerrycurrihy Barony, 27 (Kilnaglery)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Imokilly Barony, 102 (Castlemartyr), 148 (Carewswood), 163 (Knockane), 169 (Ballynacorra)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 88 (Carewswood)
SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxiv, 163
TOWNSEND, Horatio. ''Statistical survey of the county of Cork...'' Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1810: 628 (Castlemartyr)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Coshmore & Coshbride Barony: 9 (Ballyhamlet)
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: 130 & 168 (Castle Martyr)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 243 (Castlemartyr)
WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 252 (Castle Martyr)
BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.52

Modern printed sources

MALCOMSON, A.P.W. ''The Pursuit of the Heiress: Aristocratic Marriage in Ireland, 1740-1840''. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006: 205-206
SHANNON, Earl of (Richard Boyle). ''Lord Shannon's letters to his son: 1790-1802''. [edited by Esther Hewitt]. Belfast: Public Record Office Northern Ireland, 1982. : All
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: AINSWORTH, J.F. National Library Report on Private Collections, No. 393: Report on the Shannon Papers (from 1633), in the possession of Viscount Boyle, relating to the Boyles, Earls of Shannon and to lands in Co. Cork
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 73 (Castle Martyr)
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Special Lists.: Shannon Papers, Special Lists 206 & 320