Landed Estates
University of Galway

Baldwin (Glandore)

The Baldwin family in Cork were the descendents of Elizabethan settlers in the Bandon area. The representatives of William B. Baldwin of Glandore owned over 2300 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. He had been among the principal lessors in the parish of Skull, barony of West Carbery and Rathbarry, barony of Ibane & Barryroe, at the time of Griffith's Valuation.

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Brookfield (Bandon) Tullyland Ballymodan Bandon Knockroe 8 East Carbery (East) Cork OSI Ref: W512537
OS Sheet: 110
Discovery map: 86
Photo of Brookfield (Bandon)
Mount Beamish Boulteen Desertserges Bandon Boulteen 14 East Carbery (East) Cork OSI Ref: W400515
OS Sheet: 109
Discovery map: 86
Kilkeran House Kilkeran Rathbarry Clonakilty Rathbarry 56 Ibane & Barryroe Cork OSI Ref: W341345
OS Sheet: 143, 144
Discovery map: 89
Shorecliffe House Rushanes Kilfaughnabeg Clonakilty Kilfaughnabeg 319 East Carbery (West) Cork OSI Ref: W229351
OS Sheet: 142
Discovery map: 89
Photo of Shorecliffe House
Glandore Lodge Aghatubrid Beg Kilfaughnabeg Clonakilty Kilfaughnabeg 19 East Carbery (West) Cork OSI Ref: W223355
OS Sheet: 142
Discovery map: 89
Mardyke House Coronea Abbeystrowry Skibbereen Skibbereen Rural 309 West Carbery (East) Cork OSI Ref: W118335
OS Sheet: 141
Discovery map: 89
Summerhill (Bandon) Knockbrogan Kilbrogan Bandon Kilbrogan 4 Kinalmeaky Cork OSI Ref: W497554
OS Sheet: 110
Discovery map: 86
Photo of Summerhill (Bandon)

Archival sources

  • H.R. Moulton Collection, includes marriage settlement of Edward Beecher, Rock Castle, Co Cork & Mary Baldwin, daughter of William Baldwin of Castle Townsend, Co Cork, 16 Feb 1811. D.3698; National Archives of Ireland
  • Eleven deeds relating to property of the Baldwin family in Cork City and County 18th c. D. 21,918-28 ; National Library of Ireland
  • Extracts of wills of the Baldwin, Bayley, Becher, Aldworth and Bennett families, from 1619 - 1798. T. 996 ; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
  • A few documents relating to the family of Baldwin, Co. Cork 18th - 19th c. Ms. 13,065 ; National Library of Ireland
  • Detailed abstracts of wills of Baldwin of Cork and of Curravordy in Co. Cork 1768 - 1793. Genealogical Office: Ms.139, p.79 ; National Library of Ireland
  • Pedigree of Baldwin family of Cork (Leader Collection); Irish Genealogical Research Society Library

Contemporary printed sources