O'Keeffe
The O'Keeffes were an old Irish family, long established in the Kanturk area of county Cork. The O'Keeffe estate was in the parishes of Clonfert and Drumtarriff, barony of Duhallow, county Cork at the time of Griffith's Valuation. They held their estate from the Aldworth family. In the 1870s Charles O'Keeffe medical doctor of Mount Keeffe, Newmarket, owned 1,409 acres in the county. Lands in the barony of Duhallow, the estate of Arthur O'Keefe deceased, were advertised for sale in July 1862. The original leases were to Charles McCarthy of Scagh. http://www.iol.ie/~kevnilse/eoghangf.html
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Mount Keeffe | Mountkeeffe | Clonfert | Kanturk | Newmarket 183 | Duhallow | Cork |
OSI Ref: R325 094
OS Sheet: 14 Discovery map: 72 |
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| Dromagh Castle | Dromagh | Dromtarriff | Kanturk | Rosnalee 157 | Duhallow | Cork |
OSI Ref: W335 980
OS Sheet: 30 Discovery map: 79 |
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| Spitalfields | Spital | Buttevant | Mallow | Buttevant 237 | Orrery and Kilmore | Cork |
OSI Ref: R547 105
OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 73 |
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Archival sources
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), O’Keefe, 10 July 1862, Vol 66 (42), MRGS 39/033, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- 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
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Duhallow, 53 (Mountkeeffe); Barony of Orrery and Kilmore, 32 (Spital)
- 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
- 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] : 352
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 509 (Dromagh)
Modern printed sources
- HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 147, 274, 334
- ''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). XXV, 2nd Series (1919), 214-215 (Spital))