Bowen/Cole-Bowen

Originally from Wales, Henry Bowen, a Cromwellian army officer, settled in county Cork. In 1660 his son John married Mary, daughter and heir of John Nicholls of Kilbolane, county Cork. John Bowen was granted over 1,200 acres at Pharihy, barony of Fermoy in 1669. In 1716 his grandson, Henry Bowen of Kilbolane, married Jane, only child and heir of Robert Cole of Ballymackey, county Tipperary. Their son, Henry Cole Bowen, married his first cousin, Margaret, daughter of Ralph Warter Wilson in 1760. Henry and Margaret Bowen lived at Bowen's Court. Their grandson, Henry Cole Bowen, served as a magistrate in Bandon in the 1840s. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Robert C. Bowen held land in the parish of Kilbolane, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, county Cork and Ballymackey and Templedowney, barony of Upper Ormond, county Tipperary, while his mother held land in the parish of Farahy, barony of Fermoy, county Cork and his cousin, Henry Cole Bowen, held land in the parishes of Newchapel, Rathronan, barony of Iffa and Offa East and Bruis, barony of Clanwilliam, county Tipperary. The author Elizabeth Bowen was a member of this family. In the 1870s the Bowens of Bowens Court owned 1,680 acres in county Cork and over 5,000 acres in county Tipperary while Henry Cole Bowen of Dublin owned 805 acres in county Tipperary.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ballymackey House	Ballymackey	Ballymackey	Nenagh	Ballymackey 109	Upper Ormond	Tipperary	OSI Ref: R943805 OS Sheet: 21 Discovery map: 59
Glenville	Farrannagark	Rathclarin	Bandon	Rathclarin 12	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W512448 OS Sheet: 123 Discovery map: 86
Harbour View	Garranafeen	Rathclarin	Bandon	Kilbrittain 11	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W529439 OS Sheet: 123 Discovery map: 86
Seaview Cottage	Garranafeen	Rathclarin	Bandon	Kilbrittain 11	East Carbery (East)	Cork	OSI Ref: W528439 OS Sheet: 123 Discovery map: 86
Bowen's Court	Farahy	Farahy	Mitchelstown	Farahy 291	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R685 104 OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 73
Kilcummer	Kilcummer Upper	Kilcummer	Fermoy	Kilcummer 131	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R694 007 OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 73
Falleen	Falleen	Ballymackey	Nenagh	Ballymackey 109	Upper Ormond	Tipperary	OSI Ref: R976 808 OS Sheet: 22 Discovery map: 59
Knockane	Knockane	Templedowney	Nenagh	Ballymackey 109	Upper Ormond	Tipperary	OSI Ref: R978 797 OS Sheet: 22 Discovery map: 59
Pallas	Pallas East	Templedowney	Nenagh	Ballymackey 109	Upper Ormond	Tipperary	OSI Ref: R970 791 OS Sheet: 21 Discovery map: 59
Camira	Cappa	Ballymackey	Nenagh	Ballymackey 109	Upper Ormond	Tipperary	OSI Ref: R956 812 OS Sheet: 21 Discovery map: 59

Archival sources

Stradbroke Papers, includes marriage settlement of Ralph Wilson of Kissikurk, Co Limerick & Thomasina Bowen of Kilbolane, Co Cork, 5 July 1729. HB26/412/745 ; Suffolk Record Office: Ipswich Branch
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
Pedigree of Bowen of Ilston, Co. Glamorgan, of Farihy, of Kilbolane, of Bowens Court, also Cole Bowen c.1550 1890. Genealogical Office: Ms.180, pp.384-7 ; National Library of Ireland
Cole Bowen Papers, mainly 19th century estate papers including rentals from 1788, correspondence & large volume of maps. TL/F/6; Tipperary Studies Research Library (Archives), Thurles
Pedigree of Bowen family of county Cork (Leader Collection); Irish Genealogical Research Society Library
Maps of the estate of Henry Cole Bowen in the County Tipperary. Surveyed by John Ely, 18 oblong quarto maps, coloured in outline, and with names of tenants July, 1760. Ms 2043; National Library of Ireland
Rentals, maps & other records in Tipperary County Library Archives, 18th & 19th centuries. Microfilm P5553-5554; National Library of Ireland
Bowen Papers from 1650, re families of Bowen, Pole and Nichols and lands in Cos Cork, Limerick & Tipperary, unsorted collection. PC 330; National Library of Ireland
Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Kildorrery; Cork County Library

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : East Carbery (East) Barony: 127 (Farranagark), 128 (Garranafeen)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Rathclarin Parish, Vol. I, 613 (Bowenscourt), Vol.II, 490.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 118, 159
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] : 48
SMITH, Charles, M.D. ''The ancient and present state of the county and city of Cork. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical and topographical description thereof ''. First published 1750. This edition published Cork: John Connor, 1815: I, 342 (Kilcummer), 344 (Pharahy)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 78 (Farahy)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 75 (Bowen's Court)
SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxiii, 222
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 213
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Upper Ormond, 21 (Falleen), 92 (Knockane & Pallas East)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 246 (Farahy)
WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 168 (Ballymakey House, O'Meara), 233 (Faraghy), 237 (Kilcummer [Groves])
BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.51

Modern printed sources

BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 56
''Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society'': BENCE-JONES, Mark. Bowen's Court: an appreciation. Vol. IV, No. 3 and 4, (July-December, 1961)
''Analecta Hibernica'': MacLYSAGHT, E.A. Bowen Papers (from 1650) formerly preserved at Bowenscourt, Kildorrery, Co. Cork, now in the Nat. Libr. of Ireland, relating to the families of Bowen, Cole and Nicholls and to lands in Cork, Tipperary and Limerick.XV, (1944),
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 46
HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 81
''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). X, 2nd Series (1909), 294-299
''Jnl. of the Charleville and District Historical Society''.: MCCARTHY, C.J.F. When the Bowens came to Kilbolane. III (1988), 96-102
HOWARD, Joseph Jackson and CRISP, Frederick Arthur (eds). ''Visitation of Ireland''. Baltimore: reprint by Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1973: Bowen of Bowen's Court, Co Cork. IV, 14-16
Tipperary Studies Research Library, Thurles: MURPHY, M.B. From Bowen's Court to Ballymackey: landlord, tenants and community, 1841-88. (Unpublished BA thesis, UL, 1999)
HICKS, David. ''Irish country houses: portraits & painters''. Cork: The Collins Press, 2014. : pp.78-91