Harris

At the time of Griffith's Valuation the representatives of Thomas Harris held an estate in the parishes of Kilbrin and Kilmeen, barony of Duhallow, county Cork. Marianne Wrixon, sister of Sir William Wrixon-Becher, married Thomas Harris of Bathview, Mallow, county Cork and had a number of children. Their eldest daughter married Henry Keating of Mount Esk, county Cork, and the lands of Spring Gove were charged with a jointure for her. In 1810 William Wrixon of Ballygiblin had leased the lands of Rath and Assolas to William Harris of Assolas for the life of Thomas Harris of the city of Cork, sheriff. In the 1850s, William Harris was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Abbeymahon and Templequinlan, barony of Ibane & Barryroe. In July 1871 the Harris estate in the barony of Duhallow was advertised for sale. It amounted to 1,153 acres and included the house and demesne of Spring-Grove. In April 1875 lands at North and South Knocklohart, barony of Duhallow, the estate of William Thomas Harris were advertised for sale. These lands were held by fee farm grant from Peter and Anne Barfoot and Elizabeth Francis Digby to William T. Harris dated 27 February 1851. The Harris family of Lakeview, Cork, were a branch of the Harris family of Assolas.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Spring Grove	Spring Grove	Kilroe	Kanturk	Greenane 164	Duhallow	Cork	OSI Ref: R395 037 OS Sheet: 23 Discovery map: 72
Assolas	Assolas	Castlemagner	Kanturk	Greenane 164	Duhallow	Cork	OSI Ref: R427 028 OS Sheet: 23 Discovery map: 73
Mill House (Ballinascarty)	Madame	Kilmaloda	Clonakilty	Kilnagross 49	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W406468 OS Sheet: 122 Discovery map: 86
Spital Mill House	Aghmanister & Spital	Abbeymahon	Clonakilty	Abbeymahon 58	Ibane & Barryroe	Cork	OSI Ref: W467425 OS Sheet: 136 Discovery map: 89
Willsfort	Ballinvuskig	Killanully	Cork	Douglas 98	Cork	Cork	OSI Ref: W691 673 OS Sheet: 86 Discovery map: 87
Lakeview	Mahon	St Finbars	Cork	Blackrock 95	Cork	Cork	OSI Ref: W728 705 OS Sheet: 75 Discovery map: 87
Spitalfields	Spital	Buttevant	Mallow	Buttevant 237	Orrery and Kilmore	Cork	OSI Ref: R547 105 OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 73

Archival sources

Large collection of solicitors' records including many documents re William & William Thomas Harris, 18th-19th centuries. E.J.French solicitor's collection, Small Accessions Index 8 ; National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Harris, Delacour, Keatinge, Galway, Bingham, 4 July 1871, Vol 103 (8), MRGS 39/048, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Harris, 13 Apr 1875, Vol 118 (80), MRGS 39/054, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Copy of confirmation of arms to the descendants of Richard Harris of Lisgriffin Castle, Co. Cork, and to his grandson, William Prittie Harris of Lakeview, Blackrock, Co. Cork, son of late William Harris of Kilbarry, Co. Cork, with mention of descent from family of Harris of Assolas, Co. Cork, March 25, 1875. GO MS 109, pp. 321-2 ; National Library of Ireland
Lease by William Harris to John Anster of lands at Ballysallagh, Co. Cork, 16 Apr., 1792. D. 26,851 ; National Library of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Duhallow, 142 (Spring Grove)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 14 (Assolas), 360 (Spring Grove -Bastable), 390 (Wills-fort)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Carbery (East) Barony: 109 (Madame)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Ibane & Barryroe Barony, 3 (Aghmanister & Spital)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Cork Barony, 84 (Mahon)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 208 (Lakeview House - Miss Allen)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 125

Modern printed sources

CASEY, Albert Eugene. ''O’Kief, Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher and Upper Blackwater in Ireland''. Birmingham Ala.: Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1952: XV, 2103 & 23328
HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 37, 337
''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). XXVI, 2nd Series (1920), 221-222 (Spring Grove)