Annesley/Grove Annesley (Annes Grove)

A junior branch of the Annesley family which bore the titles Viscount Glerawly and Earl of Annesley, inherited the Grove estate of Ballyhimmock, county Cork. The Grove family, originally from Middlesex, had been resident in Caherduggan parish from the early 17th century. In 1666 Major John Groves was granted lands in the baronies of Orrery and Kilmore, Fermoy (inlcuding Ballyhymock) and Duhallow amounting to 2,409 acres. Ion Grove of Ballyhemock married Arabella Blennerhasset in 1710 and it was their granddaughter Mary Grove, only child of Robert Grove, who married Francis Charles Annesley, 1st Earl Annesley, in 1766. Francis and Mary had no children. His nephew Arthur Annesley succeeded to the Grove estate and took the additional name of Grove. In 1814 he married Elizabeth only child of John Mahon of Besborough, county Tipperary. In the mid 19th century the Grove Annesley estate was in the parishes of Buttevant, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Castlemagner, barony of Duhallow, Castletownroche and Glanworth, barony of Fermoy. In the 1870s Richard Grove Annesley of Annsgrove, Castletownroche owned 1,757 acres in county Cork.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Annesgrove	Annesgrove	Castletownroche	Fermoy	Castletownroche 130	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R681 048 OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 73
Hunting Hill	Ballyhimock	Castletownroche	Mallow	Castletownroche 130	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R662 045 OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 73
Ballykeating	Ballykeating	Glanworth	Fermoy	Glanworth West	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R737 064 OS Sheet: 27 Discovery map: 73
Kilcummer	Kilcummer Upper	Kilcummer	Fermoy	Kilcummer 131	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R694 007 OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 73

Archival sources

Annesley Papers, includes reference to Groves of Ballyhimmock, 1560-1995. D1503, D1854 & MIC 532; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Irish Tourist Association Files, Parish of Castletownroche; Cork County Library

Contemporary printed sources

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 116
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] : 8
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 33 (Annesgrove), 35 (Ballyhimock), 83 (Ballykeating)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 7 (Anne-grove, William Connor), 219 (Hunting-hill, Mr William Dwyer)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 311-312 (Annesgrove)
SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxi,164
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 234 (Annesgrove)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 118
WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 237 (Kilcummer & Ann's-Grove)

Modern printed sources

HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 31-32, 59, 203
MOSLEY, Charles (ed). ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage''. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999: I, 83-85
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 5
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Grove Papers (from 1628), the property of Mr. R. Grove Annesley, Annesgrove, Castletownroche, relating to the Grove and Annesley families and to lands in Co. Cork. Report No. 26
''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), 248 (Ballykeating), XVII, 2nd Series (1911), 1-17 (Caherduggan Parish), XXI, 2nd Series (1915), 184-185 (Hunting Hill)
BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: 38-40
WALFORD, Edward. 'The County families of the United Kingdom''. London: Chatto and Windus, 1885): 21-22 (Annesley)