Penrose/Penrose Welsted (Shandangan)

The Penroses were a Cornish family who settled in county Waterford in the 17th century. In 1775 Samuel Penrose married Mary daughter of George Randall of Barnhill, county Cork and his wife a daughter of Abraham Devonsher of Kilshanick. Their son Samuel Penrose of Shandangan was born in 1776 and at the time of Griffith's Valuation held an estate in the parishes of Aglish and Cannaway, barony of East Muskerry, county Cork. His son, also named Samuel, married in 1827 Sarah daughter of John Welsted of Ballywalter, county Cork. Their son the Reverend Samuel Penrose Welsted eventually succeeded to the Shandangan and Ballywalter properties. In November 1864 the lands of Shandangan, the estate of Samuel Penrose, were advertised for sale. In the 1870s the Reverend S. Penrose of Kinsale owned 701 acres in county Cork.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Farran	Farran	Aglish	Macroom	Aglish 209	East Muskerry	Cork	OSI Ref: W497 693 OS Sheet: 72 Discovery map: 80
Rosemount	Currahaly	Aglish	Macroom	Aghlish 209	East Muskerry	Cork	OSI Ref: W488 688 OS Sheet: 84 Discovery map: 86
Shandangan House	Shandangan West	Cannaway	Macroom	Cannaway 210	East Muskerry	Cork	OSI Ref: W406 691 OS Sheet: 71 Discovery map: 86
Old Fort	Shandangan East	Cannaway	Macroom	Cannaway 210	East Muskerry	Cork	OSI Ref: W419 696 OS Sheet: 71 Discovery map: 86
Shandangan East	Shandangan East	Cannaway	Macroom	Cannaway 210	East Muskerry	Cork	OSI Ref: W412699 OS Sheet: 71 Discovery map: 86
Seamount House (Carrigaline)	Curraghbinny	Carrigaline	Kinsale	Carrigaline 75	Kerrycurrihy	Cork	OSI Ref: W771625 OS Sheet: 87, 99 Discovery map: 87
Brooke Lodge	Cross	Kilmacomb	Waterford	Woodstown 94	Gaultiere	Waterford	OSI Ref: S660092 OS Sheet: 18 Discovery map: 76
Ballywalter	Ballywalter Demesne	Wallstown	Mallow	Shanballymore 2443	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R683 054 OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 73

Archival sources

Rent ledger of the estates of the Penrose family (?), in counties Waterford and Cork, 1815-1847, together with a declaration by James Penrose concerning the will of his father, Cooper Penrose, 1815. Lismore Papers, Ms. 6701 ; National Library of Ireland
Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Penrose, (The Red Abbey), 24 Apr 1868, Vol 89 (35), MRGS 39/043, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Penrose, 3 Nov 1864, Vol 74 (20), MRGS 39/036, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Fitzgerald & others, 9 November 1860, Vol 60, MRGS 39/030, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Papers of the Penrose family of Waterford, Piltown and Tramore, 1729-1950. IE TCD MS 10334; Trinity College Dublin
Pedigree of Penrose; Irish Genealogical Research Society Library

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : 114 (Farran), 121 (Shandangan East), 122 (Shandangan West)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 132
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 146 (Currahaly), 351 (Shandangan - Timothy Mahony)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 20 (Farran Lodge & Curihaly), I, 248 & II, 191 (Shandangan)
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] : 364
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Kerrycurrihy, 21 (Curraghbinny)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 242 (Ballywalter)

Modern printed sources

BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 643-644
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: National Library Report on Private Collections, No. 158: AINSWORTH, J.F. Report on the Penrose Papers (from 1679), in the custody of Mr. E. A. Penrose, Newrath, Waterford, relating to the Penrose and Randall families and to properties in Cork, Waterford, Cos. Wexford, Leix, Limerick, Clare and Tipperary.
NOLAN, W, POWER, T.P. & COWMAN, D. (eds). ''Waterford: History and Society''. (Dublin: Geography Publications, 1992). : MORRIS, Henry F. The "principal inhabitants" of county Waterford in 1746. pp.317-318
''Irish Times'': 10 November 1860, note on sale of estate of Margrette Fitzgerald and others.