Reeves (Castlekevin)
This family was a junior branch of the Reeves family of Besborough and Burrane, county Clare. Edward Hoare Reeves married, as his second wife, Dorothea, daughter of John Carleton of Cork and niece of Lord Carleton. He purchased Castlekevin from the Thornhills in the Encumbered Estates' Court. Their grandson, Edward Hoare Reeves, owned land in the parish of Kilcully, barony of Cork at the time of Griffith's Valuation. By the 1870s Edward Hoare Reeves of Castle Kevin, county Cork, owned 1,208 acres in county Limerick and 1,702 acres in county Cork. At the same time Robert and Thomas B. Reeves, also of Castlekevin, owned 842 and 541 acres respectively. A property belonging to Robert N. Reeves was sold in the Landed Estates Court in April 1864. The purchaser was Mr. Henry Paul of Cork. The life estates of Edward Hoare Reeves and that of his mother in the Castlekevin estate was advertised for sale in July 1879.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Castlekevin | Castlekevin | Clenor | Mallow | Clenor 253 | Fermoy | Cork |
OSI Ref: R623 026
OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 73 |
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| Hollyhill | Hollyhill | Gortroe | Fermoy | Gortroe 148 | Barrymore | Cork |
OSI Ref: W818 892
OS Sheet: 44 Discovery map: 81 |
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| Ballyglissane | Ballyglissane | Rathcormack | Fermoy | Gortroe 148 | Barrymore | Cork |
OSI Ref: W801 887
OS Sheet: 44 Discovery map: 81 |
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| Leitrim | Leitrim | Leitrim | Fermoy | Leitrim 147 | Condons & Clangibbon | Cork |
OSI Ref: R861 009
OS Sheet: 28 Discovery map: 74 |
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Archival sources
- Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Reeves, 25 July 1879, Vol 137 (11), MRGS 39/061, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 133, 153
- 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] : 384
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barrymore Barony, 116 (Hollyhill), 124 (Ballyglissane)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 667 (Holly Hill - S. Croker), II, 494 (Ballyglissane)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 219 (Holy-hills, David Hallahan)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 241 (Castlekevin)
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 503-504
- BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 71
- HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 53, 105, 201, 240
- ''Irish Times'': Landed Estates Court Sales, 22 April 1864, p.3