Hyde (Castle Hyde)
A family who settled in county Cork in Elizabethan times. In the early 1850s John Hyde's estate was located in the baronies of Fermoy, Condons and Clangibbon, and Barrymore, county Cork and Ardmayle and Holycross, barony of Middlethird, county Tipperary. The first division (over 11,600 acres) of the estates of John Hyde comprising the manor, town and lands of Castle Hyde with other lands in the baronies of Fermoy, Condons and Clongibbons and Imokilly, county Cork, Coshlea, county Limerick, Clanwilliam Eliogarty, Kilnemanagh and Middlethird, county Tipperary, Galmoy, county Kilkenny, was advertised for sale in December 1851. Printed papers accompanying this rental in the National Archives refer to the history of the Hyde family and the surprise at the sale of their estates which is "attributed to mismanagement of the estates by agents rather than to any faults on the part of the possessors". There is also a [newspaper cutting] listing the purchasers of the various lots. This information was also carried in the Freeman's Journal on 8 December 1851. John Sadleir, Member of Parliament, bought Castle Hyde in trust for £17,525. Some of the purchasers of the county Cork lots were Michael Burke, Mr Teulon of Bandon, Alexander Deane and William Burke in trust for Arthur Guinness. Samuel Grubb bought some of the county Tipperary estate. The county Limerick portion was bought in trust for Arthur Guinness. The total amount raised from the sale was £83,620. In 1861 Castle Hyde was for sale again, the estate of John W. Burmester, William Corry and James Andrew Durham (bankers). In the 1870s John Hyde of Cregg, Fermoy, owned 8,919 acres in county Cork. Reverend Arthur Hyde was the owner of townlands in the parish of Ross, barony of East Carbery, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. His grandson, Douglas Hyde, became the first President of Ireland.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Hyde | Castlehyde East | Litter | Fermoy | Castlehyde 129 | Condons & Clangibbon | Cork |
OSI Ref: W785 985
OS Sheet: 35 Discovery map: 80 |
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| Ballyenahan | Ballyenahan South | Derryvillane | Mitchelstown | Derryvillane 290 | Fermoy | Cork |
OSI Ref: R727 081
OS Sheet: 18 Discovery map: 73 |
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| Templenoe | Templenoe | Litter | Fermoy | Killathy 132 | Fermoy | Cork |
OSI Ref: W762 989
OS Sheet: 35 Discovery map: 80 |
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| Cregg Castle | Creggolympry North | Litter | Fermoy | Killathy132 | Fermoy | Cork |
OSI Ref: W771 989
OS Sheet: 35 Discovery map: 80 |
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| Ashfield House | Castlehyde | Fermoy | Fermoy | Castlehyde 129 | Condons & Clangibbon | Cork |
OSI Ref: W792 991
OS Sheet: 35 Discovery map: 80 |
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| Ardmayle/Clonmore | Clonmore North | Ardmayle | Cashel | Ardmayle 34 | Middlethird | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: S055 454
OS Sheet: 52 Discovery map: 66 |
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Archival sources
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Hyde, 5 Dec 1851, Vol 12 (21), MRGS 39/005, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Hyde, 9 July 1850, Vol 2 (15), MRGS 39/001, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Original correspondence from Rev. Samuel Hayman of South Abbey, Youghal, to J. N. C. Atkins Davis, MD. RA., Genealogist, re Parker of Lansdown, Hydes of Castle Hyde and Killarney, written 1845 -- 1869. Ms.802, p.14 ; National Library of Ireland
- Rental and sale notice for Castle Hyde estate, 1851. U261. ; Cork City and County Archives
- Genealogical will abstracts Arthur Hyde 1721 & John Hyde, Creg Castle, 1767. 999/5/1; National Archives of Ireland
- Agreement between John Hyde of Cuggin, Co. Cork and John Green of Cappagh, Co. Tipperary concerning land in the baronies of Middle Third and Killnomana Co. Tipperary, Oct. 23, 1788. D. 19,837 ; National Library of Ireland
- Longfield maps, undated survey of lands of Kilshenane, barony of Clanwilliam with tenants' names. Map of lands of Glenbane Upper & Lower, barony of Middlethird. 21.F.46 (4 & 21); National Library of Ireland
- Irish Tourist Association Files, Parishes of Castletownroche and Fermoy; Cork County Library
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 49 (Ballyenahan), 120 (Creggolympry North), 121 (Templenoe)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 39 (Ballyenchan - James Kearney), 99 (Castle-hyde)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 289 (Castle Hyde & Templenoe & Creg - Col Stewart)
- 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] : 230
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 126
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Condons & Clangibbon Barony, 54 (Castlehyde), 117 (Castlehyde East)
- SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxiv, 262 (Castlehyde)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 226
- TOWNSEND, Horatio. ''Statistical survey of the county of Cork...'' Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1810: 521 (Castlehyde & Craig)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Middlethird Barony, 4 (Clonmore North)
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 237 (Castle-Hyde)
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.235
Modern printed sources
- MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 617-619
- HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 46, 104, 133, 347
- ''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: O’FLANAGAN, J. Roderick. Recollections of Castle Hyde. I, 2nd Series (1895), 200-207
- ''Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies: the journal of the Irish Georgian Society''. : DOOLEY, Terence. Castle Hyde and the great famine, 1845-51. XII (2009), pp.54-71.
- ''Freeman's Journal'': Incumbered Estates Court sale report, 8 December 1851, p.1.