O'Driscoll (West Carbery)
The O'Driscolls were an ancient Gaelic family who had, up to the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, held large amounts of land in the barony of West Carbery. Following the confiscations of the mid-1600s they were confinded to small estates. Margaret O'Driscoll was one of the principal lessors in the parish of Caheragh at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s, her representatives owned over 650 acres in county Cork.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Gortnascreeny House | Gortnascreeny | Caheragh | Skibbereen | Gortnascreeny 306 | West Carbery (West) | Cork |
OSI Ref: W069461
OS Sheet: 119 Discovery map: 85 |
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| Bunalunn or Mount Music | Bunalunn | Caheragh | Skibbereen | Woodfort 311 | West Carbery (West) | Cork |
OSI Ref: W124374
OS Sheet: 141 Discovery map: 89 |
Archival sources
- Baker, Ringwood & Gordon, solicitors' collection, includes plain copy will & grant of Daniel O'Driscoll of Carrigboy, Co Cork, 13 July 1883. Small Accs. Index 105, T.11,959; National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 296 (Mount Music)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 131
- 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] : 349
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : West Carbery (West) Barony: 4 (Gortnascreeny)