Landed Estates
University of Galway

Pyne (Ballyvolane)

This family descend from Robert Wakeham, who succeeded his uncle, Sir Richard Pyne, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland at Ballyvolane, county Cork, in the early 18th century and took the name Pyne. Sir Richard Pyne bought Ballyvolane, part of the forfeited estate of Sir Richard Nagle and Edmond Barry in 1702 and also the Blarney mills in 1703. A detailed account of the history of this family is given by H.F. Morris in ''The Irish Genealogist'', including the siege of Lisfinny Castle which belonged to the Land League supporter, Jaspar Douglas Pyne. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Jasper [Richard Masters] Pyne held fourteen townlands in the parish of Inchigeelagh, barony of West Muskerry and he also held land in the parishes of Britway and Knockmourne, barony of Barrymore, county Cork and in the parishes of Baptistgrange, Cooleagh and Kiltinan, barony of Middlethird, county Tipperary. 237 acres of the county Tipperary estate were advertised for sale in November 1864. Much of it was sold to Rev. John Pyne Pennefather who advertised it for sale again in January 1866. . In June 1885 an estate of 345 acres in the barony of Middlethird belonging to John Pyne Pennefather was advertised for sale. John Pyne Pennefather was born in 1833 and became a doctor. He was a grandson of William Pennefather who, in 1780, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Pyne of Ballyvolane. In November 1865 the estate of the Reverend William Masters Pyne and George Masters Pyne at Lisgoold East, barony of Barrymore, county Cork, was advertised for sale. In the 1870s the representatives of Jasper Pine, Passage, county Cork, owned 3,178 acres in county Cork and George Pine of Ballyvolane, Castlelyons, owned 930 acres.

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Carrignacurra Castle Carrignacurra Inchigeelagh Dunmanway Bealock 119 West Muskerry Cork OSI Ref: W238 666
OS Sheet: 81
Discovery map: 85
Ballyvolane Ballyvolane Britway Fermoy Kilcor 136 Barrymore Cork OSI Ref: W872 893
OS Sheet: 45
Discovery map: 81 		Photo of Ballyvolane
Waterpark Waterpark Lismore & Mocollop Fermoy Knockmourne 137 Condons & Clangibbon Cork OSI Ref: W918 982
OS Sheet: 36
Discovery map: 81

Archival sources

  • Lismore Castle Papers, Collection List 129; National Library of Ireland
  • Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Pyne, 3 Nov 1865, Vol 78 (59), MRGS 39/038, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Pyne Family Papers, mainly marriage settlements & title deeds re English property, 1783-1896. ACC/1429; London Metropolitan Archives: city of London
  • Pyne Papers, correspondence, financial accounts, etc. of the Pyne family of Essex and Ballyvolane, Co. Cork, together with map of Lorrha and Kilfadda, Co. Tipperary and a tracing from the Down Survey of portion of the parish of Inchigeelagh, Co. Cork, 1780-1823. Ms. 8526 ; National Library of Ireland
  • Pyne Papers, 23 deeds mainly concerning lands in Co. Cork in which members of the Pyne family were parties, copy of a grant of lands in Cork to Lt. Henry Pyne, 1668 and 13 other deeds concerning Pyne and related families, 1783-1895. D. 7194-7219 ; National Library of Ireland
  • Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Pyne, 18 Nov 1864, Vol 74 (59), MRGS 39/037, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Pennefather, 26 Jan 1866, Vol 80 (29), MRGS 39/039, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Pennefather, 5 June 1885, Vol 149 (1), MRGS 39/065, (microfilm copy in NUIG) ; National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

Modern printed sources