Landed Estates
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Fitzgerald (Lisheen)

The Fitzgerald estate of Corkbeg and Lisquinlan, county Cork, was inherited by the Uniacke family in the early 18th century. Robert Uniacke of Corkbeg took the addtional name of Fitzgerald and married Frances Judkin of Greenhils, county Tipperary. The Judkins were established in county Tipperary by the beginning of the 18th century. In 1793 Joseph Judkin bought lands in the barony of Middlethird previously the estate of Thady Meagher, attained. From Robert, the eldest son of Robert and Frances, descend the Penrose Fitzgeralds of Woodhill and Corkbeg. Their second son, Thomas, was created a baronet in 1801 and assumed the additional name of Judkin. In 1785 he married Elizabeth Capel of Cloghroe House, county Cork and was succeeded by his son, Sir John, in 1810. Thomas Judkin Fitzgerald held an estate in the parishes of Matehy and Inishcarra, barony of East Muskerry, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Sir John Judkin Fitzgerald held land in the parishes of Magorban and St Patricksrock, barony of Middlethird, Ballygriffen, barony of Clanwilliam and Clonoulty, barony of Kilmanagh Lower, county Tipperary. Fee simple lands belonging to James Horan, the assignee of Sir John Judkin Fitzgerald, baronet, in the barony of Barretts, county Cork and in the town of Cashel, county Tipperary, were offered for sale in April 1852. The latter property was eventually sold in May 1853 to Messers. Maxwell and Littleton. In 1856 the trustees of the marriage settlement of Sir John J. Fitzgerald and Mrs Elizabeth Moore, widow, advertised the sale of estates in counties Wexford (2,247 acres), Waterford (19 acres), Tipperary (1,320 acres) and Cork (218 acres). In December 1857 the 1,468 acre estate of Thomas Judkin Fitzgerald in the barony of East Muskerry was advertised for sale. The sale realised almost £20,000. By 1858 Thomas J. Fitzgerald was resident at Golden Hills which was advertised for sale that year but obviously not sold as in the 1870s Sir Joseph J.C. Fitzgerald of Golden Hills, Golden, county Tipperary and of Cloghroe, House, Inniscarra, county Cork, owned 1041 acres in county Tipperary.

Associated Families

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Cloghroe House Cloghroe Matehy Cork Matehy 102 East Muskerry Cork OSI Ref: W562 751
OS Sheet: 73
Discovery map: 80
Inchbeg Cloghroe Matehy Cork Matehy 102 East Muskerry Cork OSI Ref: W562 745
OS Sheet: 73
Discovery map: 80 		Photo of Inchbeg
Lisheen Lisheen Ballygriffen Tipperary Ballygriffen 161 Clanwilliam Tipperary OSI Ref: S018 410
OS Sheet: 60
Discovery map: 66
Golden Hills Goldenhills Relickmurry & Athassel Tipperary Golden 162 Clanwilliam Tipperary OSI Ref: S005 402
OS Sheet: 60
Discovery map: 66 		Photo of Golden Hills
Mount Judkin House Mountjudkin St. Patrick's Rock Cashel Cashel Rural 36 Middlethird Tipperary OSI Ref: S065409
OS Sheet: 60
Discovery map:

Archival sources

  • Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Fitzgerald, 2 Apr 1852, Vol 14 (35), MRGS 39/006, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Collis & Ward, solicitors collection, includes rental of estate of Sir J. Fitzgerald in the barony of Muskerry, Co Cork, not dated. Small Accs Index 98, Parcel 39; National Archives of Ireland
  • Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Fitzgerald, Atkinson, Pennefather, McCarthy & Horan, 14 Nov 1856, Vol 42 (30), MRGS 39/020, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Fitzgerald, 4 Dec 1857, Vol 49 (3), MRGS 39/024, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Pedigree of Judkin Fitzgerald of Golden Hills, Co. Tipperary, and of Cloghroe House, Inniscarra, Co. Cork, 1820 -- 1898. Genealogical Office: Ms.113, pp.495-6 ; National Library of Ireland
  • A survey of part of Finure in the barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork, belonging to Thomas Fitzgerald and demised to Daniel Horgan. Surveyed by Robert Parker. Jan., 1794. 15 B. 14 (30) ; National Library of Ireland
  • Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Fitzgerald, Butler, Tracy & White, 12 Jan 1858, Vol 50 (4), MRGS 39/024, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Fitzgerald, (town of Cashel), 2 July 1858, Vol 53 (9), MRGS 39/027, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien, Fitzgerald, 6 Apr 1878, (Golden Hills), Vol 131 (30), MRGS 39/059, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Copy of grant of Arms being Fitz Gerald quartering Judkin, to Sir Thomas Judkin Fitz Gerald, Bart., of Lisheen, Co. Tipperary, June 20, 1801. Genealogical Office: Ms.105, p.7 ; National Library of Ireland
  • Detailed abstracts of wills of Judkin of Greenhills and Cashel, Co. Tipperary, 1730 -- 1796. Genealogical Office: Ms.141, p.310 ; National Library of Ireland
  • A survey of the town and lands of Mocklarshill, otherwise Knocknaclara, in the barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary, part of the estate of John Lapp Judkin. Surveyed by James Hely. Vellum quarto sheet, April, 1794. Manuscript map: 16 I. 17 (19) ; National Library of Ireland
  • Irish Tourist Association Survey file, early 1940s, South Tipperary No. 19 (Golden Hills); Tipperary Studies Research Library (Archives), Thurles
  • Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Inniscarra; Cork County Library

Contemporary printed sources

Modern printed sources