Landed Estates
University of Galway

Newenham (Maryborough)

The Newenhams were established in county Cork from the early 17th century. This branch of the family was descended from Richard Newenham, a Cork merchant, who built Maryborough, in the early 18th century. In 1801 Simon White, brother of the 1st Earl of Bantry, married Sarah, daughter of John Newenham of Maryborough. His sister Helen married Richard Devonsher Newenham of Maryborough. She died in 1808 in childbirth. The Whites were children of Simon White and Frances Jane Hedges Eyre (see Peerage). Richard Devonshire Newenham died in 1835, aged 72. He was a brother-in-law of Viscount Gort. Henrietta, daughter of John Devonsher Newenham, married a Townshend in 1784. Griffith's Valuation records the Reverend Edward Eyre Newenham holding land in the parishes of Ballydeloher, barony of Barrymore and Carrigaline, barony of Cork. In county Tipperary Edward Newingham held land in the parishes of Kilbragh, St Patricksrock and Tullamaine, barony of Middlethird. In November 1865 the estate of Edward Eyre Newenham amounting to over 1,600 acres in the barony of Cork, premises in the city of Cork and over 780 acres in the barony of Middlethird, county Tipperary, were advertised for sale. The county Tipperary lands were held on a lease dated 1702 from James, Duke of Ormonde, to Andrew Roe. In the 1870s Edward Eyre Newenham of Maryborough owned 500 acres in county Cork, 238 acres in county Limerick and 742 acres in county Tipperary.

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Ballyphilip House Ballyphilip Rathcooney Cork Rathcooney 110 Cork Cork OSI Ref: W709 770
OS Sheet: 63
Discovery map: 80
Maryborough Maryborough Carrigaline Cork Douglas 98 Cork Cork OSI Ref: W711 691
OS Sheet: 74
Discovery map: 87 		Photo of Maryborough
Lowesgreen Lowesgreen Kilbragh Cashel Tullamain 58 Middlethird Tipperary OSI Ref: S128 356
OS Sheet: 69
Discovery map: 66
Mounthovel House Mounthovel Carrigaline Cork Douglas Cork Cork OSI Ref: W719690
OS Sheet: 74
Discovery map: 87

Archival sources

  • Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Newenham, 16 Nov 1865, Vol 79 (7), MRGS 39/038, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Newenham, (Cork city premises), 29 Nov 1866, Vol 83 (47), MRGS 39/040, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Detailed abstracts of wills of Newenham of Marybore' in Co. Cork and of Cork City, 1695 -- 1784. GO Ms.139, pp.182-7 ; National Library of Ireland
  • Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Newenham, 24 May 1884, Vol 146 (59), MRGS 39/065, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources