Sarsfield (County Cork)

The Sarsfield family were established in Cork since medieval times. Many of them served as High Sherriffs and Mayors of Cork from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Early generations of the family lived at Sarsfield's Court and Kilmallock. In 1837 Lewis refers to Sarsfield Court as an ancient mansion. In the 18th century Dominick Sarsfield married Catherine Ronayne and his son Thomas Sarsfield married Mary Ronayne. The Sarsfields inherited Doughcloyne and other property from the Ronaynes. Thomas and Mary's grandson Thomas Ronayne Sarsfield married in 1820 and at the time of Griffith's Valuation held land in the parishes of Clonmel, barony of Barrymore, Carrigaline and St Finbarrs, barony of Cork and Kilmoney, barony of Kerrycurrihy, county Cork. In the 1870s his son Dominick R. Sarsfield of Doughcloyne owned 1,518 acres in county Cork. Bingham Sarsfield owned over 250 acres at the same time.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Kilmoney Abbey	Kilmoney	Kilmoney	Kinsale	Liscleary 201	Kerrycurrihy	Cork	OSI Ref: W718622 OS Sheet: 86,87,98,99 Discovery map: 87
Windsor House	Killahora	Caherlag	Middleton	Carrigtohill 270	Barrymore	Cork	OSI Ref: W783 741 OS Sheet: 75 Discovery map: 80
Marino	Marino	Clonmel	Cork	Queenstown Rural 103, 105	Barrymore	Cork	OSI Ref: W775 693 OS Sheet: 75 Discovery map: 87
Cuskinny	Cushkinny	Templerobin	Cork	Queenstown Rural 103	Barrymore	Cork	OSI Ref: W816 672 OS Sheet: 87 Discovery map: 81
Sarsfieldscourt [Old]	Sarsfieldscourt	Templeusque	Cork	Riverstown 109	Barrymore	Cork	OSI Ref: W725 774 OS Sheet: 63 Discovery map: 80
Cloneen	Cloneen	Carrigtohill	Middleton	Carrigtohill 270	Barrymore	Cork	OSI Ref: W804 762 OS Sheet: 64 Discovery map: 81
Doughcloyne	Doughcloyne	St Finbars	Cork	Inishkenny 70	Cork	Cork	OSI Ref: W649 692 OS Sheet: 74 Discovery map: 87
Johnstown House	Johnstown	Carrigtohill	Middleton	Carrigtohill 270	Barrymore	Cork	OSI Ref: W780 737 OS Sheet: 75 Discovery map: 80

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
Papers re Roche, Fitzgerald & Sarsfield families of Co Cork, collected by John Windele, mid 19th century. Ms.12 L.3; Royal Irish Academy Library
Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Hobson & Sarsfield, (Cloneen), 18 Jan 1870, Vol 96 (5), MRGS 39/046, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Correspondence re legal, business & family affairs of Sarsfield family of Doughcloyne & associated families, 1687-1783. MS 2643; National Library of Ireland
Rental of Sarsfield estate at Doughcloyne, 1817-1823. MS 3638; National Library of Ireland
Sarsfield Papers, mainly relate to the estates of the Ronayne & Sarsfield families, 16th-19th centuries. MSS 17890-17,909 & D 25,226-26,133 + manuscript maps. Also MSS 1721, 1781, 2643, 3638-3639, 7254, 15,557 & Acc 4718 ; National Library of Ireland
Xerox copies of some of the Sarsfield Papers now in NLI. U098; Cork City and County Archives
Caulfield Papers include deeds re property of the Sarsfield and Ronayne families in 16th and 17th centuries, Mss 2010-2015; Trinity College Dublin

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kerrycurrihy Barony, 35 (Kilmoney).
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] : 404
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 134
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barrymore Barony, 20 (Marino), 62 (Cuskinny)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 411 (Doughcloyne), II, 617-618 (Sarsfield)
LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 158 (Doughclone - Mr Haynes), 390 (Windsor)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Cork Barony, 70 (Doughcloyne)
TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: 167 (Johnstown), 170 (Doughlone)
SLATER, Isaac. ''Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats''. (Manchester: 1894) : xxvi, 45 (Doughcloyne)
WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 227 (Doughlone), 345 (Johnstown)

Modern printed sources

BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 539
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Sarsfield Papers (from 1329), the property of Col. T. H. Sarsfield, Fairy Hill, Mallow, now in the National Library of Ireland, relating to the families of Hore, Hodnett, Lawless, O'Keeffe, Roche, Ronayne, Sarsfield, Tyrry, Copinger, Gould and Walsh and to lands in Cork City and County. No. 309
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: KNIGHT, Frederick W. Notes on the family of Ronayne or Ronan, of Cos Cork and Waterford. XXII, 2nd Series, (1916), 56-63, 109-114, 178-185 & XXIII (1917), 93-104 & 142-151
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: CAULFIELD, Dr. Records of the Sarsfield family of the County Cork. 2nd Series, XXI (1915), 82-91, 131-136
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Special Lists.: Caulfield Papers, list of collection in TCD. Special List 253