Hungerford (Island)

Burke indicates that this family traditionally claimed descent from the Hungerford family of Farley in Somerset. Captain Thomas Hungerford settled in west Cork in the later seventeenth century.The Hungerfords married into many other influential families in the area including Beecher, Jones and Daunt. Both Mary Sandes Hungerford and Francis Hungerford, of The Island House, Inchydoney, were the owners of over 500 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. Thomas Hungerford was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Castleventry, Island and Ross, barony of East Carbery, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Both Richard and Beecher Hungerford held townlands in the parish of Kinneigh at that time. Much of this land was held on lease from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In July 1852 over 800 acres in the parish of Kinneigh, barony of East Carbery, the property of Richard Hungerford, deceased, was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. Over 300 acres, the property of Alexander George Hungerford, was offered for sale in the court in June 1856 while 560 acres of Thomas Hungerford's estate, located in the barony of East Carbery, was offered for sale in the Landed Estates Court in October 1859.

Associated Families

Hungerford (Island)

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Inchydoney House	Inchydoney Island	Island	Clonakilty	Clonakilty Rural 45	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W396391 OS Sheet: 135 Discovery map: 89
Camus House	Camus	Kilkerranmore	Clonakilty	Ardfield 52	Ibane & Barryroe	Cork	OSI Ref: W358359 OS Sheet: 134, 144 Discovery map: 89
Muckruss House	Muckruss	Ardfield	Clonakilty	Ardfield 52	Ibane & Barryroe	Cork	OSI Ref: W393376 OS Sheet: 135 Discovery map: 89
Willowhill House	Willowhill	Kilpatrick	Kinsale	Kilpatrick 200	Kinalea	Cork	OSI Ref: W741585 OS Sheet: 99 Discovery map: 87
Nohaval House	Nohaval	Nohaval	Kinsale	Nohaval 194	Kinalea	Cork	OSI Ref: W728521 OS Sheet: 113 Discovery map: 87
Capeen	Capeen West	Kinneigh	Dunmanway	Kinneigh 115	East Carbery (West)	Cork	OSI Ref: W317602 OS Sheet: 94 Discovery map: 86
Cahermore House	Cahermore	Ross	Clonakilty	Cahermore 53	East Carbery (West)	Cork	OSI Ref: W291388 OS Sheet: 134 Discovery map: 89
Milleen	Cahermore	Ross	Clonakilty	Cahermore 53	East Carbery (West)	Cork	OSI Ref: W290383 OS Sheet: 134 Discovery map: 89
Brook Ville (Kilmacabea)	Corran South	Kilmacabea	Skibbereen	Cloonkeen 318	East Carbery (West)	Cork	OSI Ref: W215411 OS Sheet: 133 Discovery map: 89
Sunmount	Ballyvackey	Kilkerranmore	Clonakilty	Cooleraheen	Ibane & Barryroe	Cork	OSI Ref: W348423 OS Sheet: 135 Discovery map: 89
Lakelands	Kilnaclasha	Abbeystrowry	Skibbereen	Woodfort 311	West Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W138363 OS Sheet: 141 Discovery map: 89

Archival sources

William D. Mockler, 59 South Mall, Cork, solicitor's collection re property in Cork Co & City, 1667-1920, includes reference to this family. Small Accs Index 87, T.3924-3998, Co 2559-2568, D.15326-15661, M.1444-1449; National Archives of Ireland
Detailed abstracts of wills of Hungerford of the Island of Inchedooney, Co. Cork, 1725 -- 1780. Genealogical Office: Ms.141, p.109 ; National Library of Ireland
Encumbered Estates Court Rentals (O'Brien), Hungerford, 1 July 1852, Vol 18, MRGS 39/007, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Hungerford, 26 June 1856, Vol 41, MRGS 39/019, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Hungerford, 13 October 1859, Vol 56, MRGS 39/028, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Pedigree of Hungerford of Inchedonny Island near Clonakilty, called The Island, of Spring Hill near Carrigoline, of Cahermore, of Jamaica and of Bengal, c.1641 -- c.1856. Genealogical Office: Ms.178, pp.171-180 ; National Library of Ireland
Settlement on the marriage of Henry Jones Hungerford, Cahirmore, Co. Cork and Mary Boon Cowper, Pernambuco, Brazil, 7 Dec. 1855. 99/56/9/6; National Archives of Ireland
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
Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parishes of Rosscarbery, Skibbereen; Cork County Library

Contemporary printed sources

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 126
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Carbery (East) Barony: 67 (Inchydoney Island)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.I, 5 (Abbeystrowry Parish), Vol.II, 26-7 (Parish of Island), Vol.II, 444.(Nohaval Parish)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 231 (Inchydoney Island)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Ibane & Barryroe Barony, 21 (Muckruss), 37 (Camus)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kinalea Barony, 48 (Willowhill)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Carbery (West) Barony, Union of Dunmanway: 133 (Capeen), Union of Clonakilty: 36 (Cahermore). Union of Skibbereen: 163 (Corran South)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 229 (Cahermore & Ballyvacky)
TOWNSEND, Horatio. ''Statistical survey of the county of Cork...'' Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 1810: 334
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 223 (Island)
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: 171 (Cahirmore)
WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 228 (Cahirmore)

Modern printed sources

MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 608-615
''Éire-Ireland'': DONNELLY, James S. Jnr. ''Big House burning in county Cork during the Irish revolution, 1920-21. XLVIII, 3 & 4, Fall-Winter (2012), pp.141-197.