Crofts (Velvetstown)

''Burke's Irish Family Records'' traces this family's descent from William Crofts, a younger son of a Suffolk family, who settled in Ireland in the mid 17th century. In 1668 a younger brother of William's named Benjamin Crofts, Receiver for Cork, was granted an estate of 1,565 acres in East Carbery, county Cork with additional lands in county Westmeath. William's eldest son, Christopher Crofts, was established at Buttevant by the late 17th century and his descendants continue to live at Velvetstown. Christopher Crofts held land in the parishes of Buttevant and Imphrick, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, at the time of Griffith's Valuation and George Crofts held land in the parishes of Ballyhooly and Doneraile, barony of Fermoy. The estate of George Crofts amounting to over 2,600 acres was advertised for sale in March 1851. In the 1870s the estate of 'the late' Christopher Crofts of Velvetstown amounted to 1,421 acres in county Cork, while Richard Nason Crofts of Ballyhoura Lodge owned 745 acres and William H. Crofts of Dublin owned 842 acres in county Cork.

Associated Families

Crofts (Cork)

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Velvetstown	Velvetstown	Buttevant	Mallow	Buttevant 237	Orrery and Kilmore	Cork	OSI Ref: R548 126 OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 73
Castle Wrixon	Castlewrixon South	Imphrick	Kilmallock	Springfort 188	Orrery and Kilmore	Cork	OSI Ref: R545 162 OS Sheet: 8 Discovery map: 73
Concamore House	Maulmore	Templequinlan	Clonakilty	Templeomalus 63	Ibane & Barryroe	Cork	OSI Ref: W432393 OS Sheet: 135, 136 Discovery map: 89
Ballyhoura Lodge	Ballyhoura	Imphrick	Mallow	Imprick 239	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R554 138 OS Sheet: 8 Discovery map: 73
Convamore Upper	Conva	Ballyhooly	Fermoy	Ballyhooly 127	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R719 009 OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 73
Streamhill	Streamhill East	Doneraile	Mallow	Streamhill 145	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R605 117 OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 73
Woodville	Ballyhoura	Imphrick	Mallow	Imprick 239	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R555 139 OS Sheet: 8 Discovery map: 73

Archival sources

Doneraile Papers, Collection List 62, see index; National Library of Ireland
Nine deeds relating to the family of Crofts of Velvetstown, Co. Cork, c. 1740 - 1810. D. 9947-9955 ; National Library of Ireland
Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Crofts, 20 Mar 1851, Vol 6 (16), MRGS 39/002, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Crofts, 31 July 1854, Vol 30 (20), MRGS 39/013, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Pedigree of the Crofts family of county Cork (Leader Collection); Irish Genealogical Research Society Library
Copy of certificate of arms to Rosamund Patricia Nason Crofts, wife of Basil Crofts Greene of Donnybrook, Dublin, daughter and heir of Christopher Nason Crofts of Ballyhoura Lodge, Co. Cork, descended from the family of Crofts of Velvetstown, Buttevant, Co. Cork, Nov. 15, 1949. GO Ms.111g, fol.71 ; National Library of Ireland
S. Gordon & Son, solicitor's collection, include deed re land in barony of East Carbery, Benjamin Crofts of city of Cork to Hugh Harding, Feb 1668. Small Accs. Index 103, D.18,328; National Archives of Ireland
Irish Tourist Association survey files, Parish of Buttevant.; Cork County Library

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Orrery and Kilmore, 33 (Velvetstown)
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] : 108
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 121
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 383 (Velvex-town), 364 (Streamhill)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 235 & II, 13 (Velvetstown), 138 (Upper Convamore - J. Delany) 478 (Steamhill)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Ibane & Barryroe Barony, 89 (Maulmore)
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: 183 (Velvetstown)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 13 (Conva), 71 (Streamhill East), 95 (Ballyhoura)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix III. Abstracts of the conveyances from the trustees of the Forfeited Estates and Interests in Ireland in 1688'.: 348
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 171, 196

Modern printed sources

HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 112, 125, 340, 355
MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 292-295.
''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). XIV, 2nd Series (1908), 241(Ballyhoura)
''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), 227-230 (Streamhill)
''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). XXVII, 2nd Series (1921), 281-300 (Velvetstown including genealogical information)