Bruce (Milltown Castle)
A Scottish family who settled in the Bandon area of county Cork in the mid 17th century. Milltown Castle came into their possession through the 1752 marriage of George Bruce and Mary Evans niece of the 1st Lord Carbery. At the time of Griffith's Valuation members of the Bruce family held lands in the county Limerick parishes of St Nicholas, barony of Clanwilliam, Oola, barony of Coonagh and Effin, barony of Coshlea and in the county Cork parishes of Kilmeen and Kilbrin, barony of Duhallow and Shandrum, barony of Orrery and Kilmore. In May 1863 a farm and premises at Ballybane, barony of Duhallow, the estate of Lewis Charles Bruce continued in the name of Eyre Evans Bruce was advertised for sale. In the 1870s Jonathon Bruce of Miltown Castle owned 454 acres in county Limerick, 440 acres in county Cork and 25 acres in county Tipperary.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Springfort | Garrynagranoge | Rathgoggan | Kilmallock | Springfort 188 | Orrery & Kilmore | Cork |
OSI Ref: R514 208
OS Sheet: 2 Discovery map: 73 |
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| Milltown Castle | Milltown | Cooliney | Kilmallock | Milltown 187 | Orrery and Kilmore | Cork |
OSI Ref: R500 198
OS Sheet: 7 Discovery map: 73 |
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| Prohust | Prohust | Kilbolane | Kanturk | Milford 174 | Orrery and Kilmore | Cork |
OSI Ref: R426 188
OS Sheet: 6 Discovery map: 73 |
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| Clonmoyle | Clonmoyle East | Aghabulloge | Macroom | Clonmoyle 214 | East Muskerry | Cork |
OSI Ref: W472 757
OS Sheet: 61 Discovery map: 80 |
Archival sources
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Bruce, 1 May 1863, Vol 68 (1), MRGS 39/034, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Deeds relating to the Bruce & Evans families & property in Cork city, 1765, 1791. IE BL/SC/CD/2-5; University College Cork, Boole Library Archives
- Irish Tourist Association survey files, Parish of Ballyhea; Cork County Library
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] : 58
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 147
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 287 (Mill-town)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 397 (Milltown Castle), II, 53 (Proughis), II, 498 (Springfort)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Orrery and Kilmore, 43 (Milltown)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of East Muskerry, 85 (Clonmoyle East)
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 69
- HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 263, 336
- ''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), 95-103 (Milltown Castle)