Longfield (Castlemary & Longueville)

John Longfield, of Castle Mary, near Cloyne, county Cork married Mary Hawnby of Mallow, county Cork. Their grandson, Richard Longfield, was created Viscount Longueville in 1800 but died without heirs and his estates were inherited by his cousin, Mountifort Longfield, who was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Skull, barony of West Carbery, Desertserges, barony of East Carbery and Ballintemple, Cloyne, Inch, Kilmahon, Middleton, Rostellan, barony of Imokilly, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Some of his Imokilly estate was held from the Earls of Inchiquin and some from the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. Mountifort was the son of John Longfield of Longueville and Susannah Westropp of Kilkerin, county Clare. His descendants continued to reside at Castle Mary until the early 20th century. Mountifort's older brother, John, lived at Longueville. He married Elizabeth Foster and had five sons. The senior line of his descendants now live in South Africa. The Longfield's county Cork estate in the barony of Duhallow was mainly in the parishes of Kilmeen and Ballyclogh but also in the parishes of Drumtarriff, Knocktemple and Mallow, while the county Limerick estate was in the parishes of Croom, barony of Pubblebrien and Cloncagh, barony of Connello Upper. In the 1870s, the representatives of M. Longfield of Castlemary, Cloyne, owned over 10,800 acres in county Cork while the Longfields of Longueville owned 9,410 acres in county Cork and 1,881 acres in county Limerick. Two sons of Henry Longfield, fifth son of John and Elizabeth of Longueville, also owned substantial estates in the 1870s. They were Major John Powell Longfield of Seafield, Queenstown, who owned 2,560 acres and the representatives of his brother Henry of Sea Court, Courtmasherry who owned 2,810 acres. The representatives of Henry Longfield held land in the parishes of Aghabulloge and Donaghmore, barony of East Muskerry at the time of Griffith's Valuation and Robert Longfield held land in the parish of Ballynoe, barony of Kinnatalloon.

Associated Families

Longfield (Castlemary & Longueville)

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Seafort	Croagh	Skull	Skull	Skull 333	West Carbery (West)	Cork	OSI Ref: V901297 OS Sheet: 148 Discovery map: 88
Church Hill House	Knockmacool	Desertserges	Bandon	Boulteen 14	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W390534 OS Sheet: 109 Discovery map: 86
Longueville House	Longueville	Ballyclogh	Mallow	Ballyclogh 234	Duhallow	Cork	OSI Ref: W496 987 OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 80
Waterloo	Gearanaskagh	Ballyclogh	Mallow	Ballyclogh 234	Duhallow	Cork	OSI Ref: W487 980 OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 80
Eden Hill	Gortnagross	Mallow	Mallow	Ballyclogh 234	Duhallow	Cork	OSI Ref: W520 983 OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 80
Seacourt	Ballinvrokig	Lislee	Clonakilty	Butlerstown 59	Ibane & Barryroe	Cork	OSI Ref: W489385 OS Sheet: 136 Discovery map: 87
Kilcrone	Kilcrone	Cloyne	Middleton	Cloyne 265	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: W922 663 OS Sheet: 88 Discovery map: 81
Ballyre	Ballyre	Dangandonovan	Middleton	Dangan 261	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: W985 809 OS Sheet: 66 Discovery map: 81
Castle Mary	Castlemary	Inch	Middleton	Cloyne 265	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: W897 675 OS Sheet: 88 Discovery map: 81
Ballymaloe	Ballymaloe More	Kilmahon	Middleton	Ightermurragh 262	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: W948 680 OS Sheet: 89 Discovery map: 81
Rose Hill	Ballynacorra West	Middleton	Middleton	Cloyne 265	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: W887 715 OS Sheet: 76 Discovery map: 81
Woodview	Lurrig	Rostellan	Middleton	Rostellan 259	Imokilly	Cork	OSI Ref: W895 665 OS Sheet: 88 Discovery map: 81
Cashelmore House	Cashelmore	Desertserges	Bandon	Cashel	Kinalmeaky	Cork	OSI Ref: W428508 OS Sheet: 109 Discovery map: 86
Kilcolman House	Kilcolman	Desertserges	Bandon	Cashel	Kinalmeaky	Cork	OSI Ref: W414536 OS Sheet: 109 Discovery map: 86

Archival sources

W.B. Scott, solicitor's collection, contains many records re land transactions in Cos Clare, Limerick & Cork, 18th-19th centuries, including references to this family. Small Accs Index 76 ; National Archives of Ireland
Twenty-three documents of the Longfield family relating to Cork including copies of wills and marriage settlements affecting the lands of Carrigeens, 1759-1917; petition for the sale of the estate of D. Longfield Beatty, 1876. U 155; Cork City and County Archives
Thirty documents, mostly deeds, relating to lands in Co. Cork, particularly to Gortnagruss, Killynegrohan (Kilnagrohan) and Kilcranton and to the families of Connor, Curtis, Longfield, Wrixon, etc. 1770 - 1821. D. 8685-8714 ; National Library of Ireland
Lease book belonging to Lionel, Earl of Orrery. The leases are signed by John Longfield of Moyallo, on behalf of the Earl of Orrery, and relate to property in Co. Cork and Co. Limerick, 1692-3. n.476, p.792 (Microfilm copy of Ms. Eng. 218, 24 at Harvard University Library); National Library of Ireland
Land Judges’ Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Litchfield, 10 Nov 1882, Vol 144 (26), MRGS 39/064, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Inchiquin Papers, Collection List 143; National Library of Ireland
Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Carmichael, 19 Dec 1856, Vol 43 (26), MRGS 39/021, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Bill of sale for the cutter Charlotter, Robert Longfield, Castlemary to the Hon William H. White Hedges of Macroom Castle, 24 July 1843. 999/580/1/6; National Archives of Ireland
Bantry Estate Collection, includes leases & subleases of the Longfield estate, 1756-1814. IE BL/EP/B/2975-3055 ; University College Cork, Boole Library Archives
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, Parishes of Ballyclogh and Cloyne; Cork County Library

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : West Carbery (West) Barony: 73 (Skull)
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] : 278
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 128, 150
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Carbery (East) Barony: 53 (Knockmacool)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Duhallow Part II, 2 (Gearanaskagh), 5 (Longueville), 41 (Gortnagross)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 129 & II, 338-341, (Longueville & Waterloo), II, 13 & 381 (Castle Mary), 13 (Woodview), 458 (Church Hill), II, 168 (Ballymaloe - Forster), 369 (Ballinacurra Lodge - T.H. Rumbley)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 49 (Ballymaloe - William Abbot), 100 (Castle-mary), 175 (Eden-hill: Joseph Carpenter), 274 (Longueville)
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: 168 (Castle Mary), 182 (Longoeville)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Imokilly Barony, 117 (Kilcrone), 158 (Castlemary), 205 (Lurrig)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 229 (Ballinvrokig)
SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxiv, 178 (Castle Mary), xxix, 130 (Longueville), xxxii, 147 (Seafort),
TOWNSEND, Horatio. ''Statistical survey of the county of Cork...'' Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1810: 623 (Castlemary)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 41
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 244 (Castlemary)
WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 236 (Longfield), 250 (Castle Mary)
BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.278.

Modern printed sources

MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 734-737.
HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 157, 250, 360-361
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: LECKY, John. The Longfield family. Ser. 2, Vol. XXIII, (1917) pp. 173-174,
''Analecta Hibernica'': McLYSAGHT, E.A. Longfield Papers (from 1628), the property of the late Major Lewis Longfield, Mallow, relating to the Longfield family and to lands in Co. Cork. XV (1944), 135-142.
Ó LOINGSIGH, Pádraig (ed). ''The Book of Cloyne''. [Cloyne Historical and Archaeological Society], 2nd edition, [1994] : 186-196
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XXIII, 2nd Series (1917), 58-66 (Longueville)
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XXVII, 2nd Series (1921), 315 (Waterloo)
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 73 (Castle Mary)
''Éire-Ireland'': DONNELLY, James S. Jnr. ''Big House burning in county Cork during the Irish revolution, 1920-1921''. XLVII, 3&4, Fall-Winter (2012), pp.141-197