Freke
In 1702 and 1703 Percy Freke of Rathbarry [Castle Freke], county Cork, purchased parts of various forfeited estates in the baronies of Muskerry, West Carbery and Ibane and Barryroe. The Freke family came to Ireland in the seventeenth century and acquired parts of the Barry estates in the barony of West Carbery. In the eighteenth century the bulk of this estate became part of the Evans, Lords Carbery estate when John Evans married Grace Freke. Rev. James Freke of Glanmire was the owner of over 1900 acres in county Cork in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Baltimore House | Baltimore | Tullagh | Skibbereen | Tullagh 316 | West Carbery (East) | Cork |
OSI Ref: W045262
OS Sheet: 150 Discovery map: 88 |
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| Durrus Glebe | Clashadoo | Durrus | Bantry | Durrus West 28 | West Carbery (West) | Cork |
OSI Ref: V935419
OS Sheet: 130 Discovery map: 88 |
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| Castle Freke | Castlefreke | Rathbarry | Clonakilty | Rathbarry 56 | Ibane & Barryroe | Cork |
OSI Ref: W325351
OS Sheet: 143 Discovery map: 89 |
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Archival sources
- Pedigree of Freke of Castle Freke, Co. Cork, Barts., with Evans descendants, c.1690 -- c.1800. Genealogical Office: Ms.112, p.104 ; National Library of Ireland
- "Photostat" copy of a survey of the estate of Sir John Freke in Co. Cork, including plans of the towns of Ross and Baltimore. By Thomas Sherrard. A quarto volume of 45 sheets, with title page, index and names of tenants, 1787-8. Manuscript maps: 21 F. 105 ; National Library of Ireland
- Papers relating to property in Cos. Limerick, Cork and Kerry and Cork City of Lord Carbery, 1704-1816. D. 20,478-510 ; National Archives of Ireland
- Enquiries to the Public Record Office, Northern Ireland; Private Possession
Contemporary printed sources
- 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] : 170
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : West Carbery (East) Barony: 137 (Baltimore)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 123
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : West Carbery (West) Barony: 116 (Clashadoo)
- TOWNSEND, Horatio. ''Statistical survey of the county of Cork...'' Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1810: 281
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix III. Abstracts of the conveyances from the trustees of the Forfeited Estates and Interests in Ireland in 1688'.: 386, 392, 393
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 140
Modern printed sources
- ''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: TOWNSEND, Dorothea. Notes on the Council Book of ClonaKilty, 1675-1782. With a pedigrees of the Freke family. Ser. 2,. I-II, (1895-6), XI(1905), pp. 98-9,
- ''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: Diary of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714. XVI-XIX, (1910-13)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Special Lists.: List and partial calendar prepared for the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland) of the papers in the possession of G. H. Boyle, Esq., Bisbrooke Hall, Uppingham, Rutland, Leicestershire, consisting of the Carbery papers, 1760-1940 and others. No.234
- ''Weekly Irish Times'': Castle Freke, 20 June 1936
- HICKS, David. ''Irish country houses: a chronicle of change''. Cork: The Collins Press, 2012. : 14-25