Puxley

Henry L. Puxley of Dunboy Castle was the owner of over 9000 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. John L. Puxley was among the principal lessors in the parishes of Templebreedy, barony of Kerrycurrihy and Kilcatherine, Killaconenagh and Kilnamanagh, barony of Bear, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. Frances Puxley held some land in the parish of Whitechurch, barony of Cork. The lands in Kerrycurrihy would originally have been Coppinger estates and had come by inheritence to the Puxleys, though a marriage in the eighteenth century between Sara Lavallin of Carrigaline and Henry Puxley of Dunboy. The lands at Dunboy would originally have belonged to the O'Sullivan Beara family and were granted to the Puxleys in the seventeenth century. They had extensive mining interests in the area. The writer Daphne du Maurier based her novel ''Hungry Hill'' on the story of the Puxley family.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Point House (Crosshaven)	Crosshaven	Templebreedy	Kinsale	Templebreedy 202	Kerrycurrihy	Cork	OSI Ref: W797612 OS Sheet: 99 Discovery map: 87
Myrtleville Cottage	Kilmichael East	Templebreedy	Kinsale	Templebreedy 202	Kerrycurrihy	Cork	OSI Ref: W797586 OS Sheet: 99 Discovery map: 87
Myrtleville House	Myrtleville	Templebreedy	Kinsale	Templebreedy 202	Kerrycurrihy	Cork	OSI Ref: W790590 OS Sheet: 99 Discovery map: 87
Lancet Lodge	Derreenataggart Middle	Killaconenagh	Castletown	Killaconenagh 40	Bear	Cork	OSI Ref: V672456 OS Sheet: 115 Discovery map: 84
Dunboy Castle	Dunboy	Killaconenagh	Castletown	Killaconenagh 40	Bear	Cork	OSI Ref: V664440 OS Sheet: 128 Discovery map: 84
Oak Lodge (Bear)	Fanahy	Killaconenagh	Castletown	Killaconenagh 40	Bear	Cork	OSI Ref: V657544 OS Sheet: 115 Discovery map: 84
Bayview House (Bere)	Cahermeeleboe	Kilnamanagh	Castletown	Coulagh 41	Bear	Galway	OSI Ref: V588440 OS Sheet: 127 Discovery map: 84

Archival sources

Copy of grant of arms to John Lavallin Puxley and to his grandson, Henry Lavallin Puxley, eldest surviving son of John Lavallin Puxley, all of Dunboy Castle, Co. Cork, Feb. 16, 1869. Genealogical Office: Ms. 109, pp. 187-8; National Library of Ireland
Bantry Estate Collection 1671-1980s, includes documents re the Puxley estate. IE BL/EP/B; University College Cork, Boole Library Archives
Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Castletownbere; Cork County Library

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] : 377
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 132
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kerrycurrihy Barony, 70 (Crosshaven), 73 (Kilmichael East), 75 (Myrtleville)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Bear: 82 (Cametringane), 88 (Derreenataggart Middle), 95 (Dunboy), 96 (Fanahy), 126 (Cahermeeleboe)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol.II, 48, Killaconenagh Parish.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 229

Modern printed sources

Ó MURCHADHA, Diarmuid. ''History of Crosshaven and the parish of Templebreedy''. Cork: Cork Historical Guides Committee, 1967): 31-33
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: Lavallen-Puxley, H. (Rev). Lavallen-Puxley pedigree. Ser. 2, Vol. XXI,(1915) p. 163,
''Jnl of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland'': Featherstonhaugh, A.J. The true story of the two chiefs of Dunboy: an episode in Irish history, bearing, mainly on smuggling in the 18th. century. Ser. 5, Vol. IV, (1894) pp. 35-43, pp. 139-149,
''Jnl. of the Irish Family History Society'': Puxleys of Dunboy. V (1989), 7-16
DURELL, Penelope. ''Discover Dursey''. Allihies: Ballinacarriga Books, 1996: 50-54
WILLIAMS, R.A. ''The Berehaven Copper Mines.'' Skipton: Northern Mine Research Society, 1991: All
MARSDEN, Simon & McLAREN, Duncan. . ''In ruins: the once great houses of Ireland''. Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1997. : 38-41 (Dunboy)
''Éire-Ireland'': DONNELLY, James S. Jnr. ''Big House burning in county Cork during the Irish revolution, 1920-21. XLVIII, 3 & 4, Fall-Winter (2012), pp.141-197.