Knolles (somtimes Knowles)
Members of the Walton Knowles family were among the principal lessors in the parishes of Kilmonoge and Kinure, barony of Kinalea, county Cork, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Thomas Knolles was granted 622 acres in this barony with land in county Kilkenny in 1666. The family were connected by marriage with several other local landed families including the Daunts and Nettles. The estate amounted to about 1000 acres in the 1870s.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Oatlands | Knocknahowla Beg | Kilmonoge | Kinsale | Kinure 193 | Kinalea | Cork |
OSI Ref: W687530
OS Sheet: 112 Discovery map: 87 |
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| Walton Court | Kinure | Kinure | Kinsale | Kinure 193 | Kinalea | Cork |
OSI Ref: W698498
OS Sheet: 112 Discovery map: 87 |
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| Carrigavulleen | Carrigavulleen | Ringrone | Kinsale | Ballinspittle 203 | Courceys | Cork |
OSI Ref: W589461
OS Sheet: 124 Discovery map: 87 |
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Archival sources
- William D. Mockler, 59 South Mall, Cork, solicitor's collection re property in Cork Co & City, 1667-1920, includes reference to this family. Small Accs Index 87, T.3924-3998, Co 2559-2568, D.15326-15661, M.1444-1449; National Archives of Ireland
- Draft pedigree and miscellaneous information about Knowles of Oatlands, Killaleigh, Co. Cork, 1698 -- 1926. Genealogical Office: Ms.810, p.27 ; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- 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] : 254
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 127
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kinalea Barony, 43 (Knocknahowla Beg)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.II, 182 Kilmonoge Parish
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Courceys: 9 (Carrigavulleen)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 78
Modern printed sources
- BROWNE, McGOUGH & ROBERTS (eds). ''Tracton: where the abbey lies low''. ( Tracton, county Cork, 2007): BROWNE, Fergal. The Knolles family of Killeighly and Oatlands. pp.275-300.