Landed Estates
University of Galway

Fitzgibbon (Co Cork)

At the time of Griffith's Valuation Cross Fitzgibbon held land from the Duke of Devonshire in the parish of Inishcarra, barony of East Muskerry, county Cork. The representatives of Edward Fitzgibbon also held land in the neighbouring parish of Carrigrohanebeg. In February 1865 the estate of Epinetus Fitzgibbon at Oughtiherry More and Beg, barony of East Muskerry, was advertised for sale. In the 1870s Cross Fitzgibbon of Inishlurgh Abbey, Inniscarra owned 599 acres and Edward Fitzgibbon of Coachford owned 332 acres in county Cork. Victor Brave Fitzgibbon of Sydney House, Cork, owned 338 acres. In November 1884 the estate of Moore Kyrl Fitzgibbon at Cooltubrid, 141 acres in the barony of East Muskerry, was advertised for sale.

Houses

Name Townland Civil Parish PLU DED Barony County Map Ref  
Inishleena Inishleena Inishcarra Cork Dripsey 100 East Muskerry Cork OSI Ref: W516 727
OS Sheet: 72
Discovery map: 80

Archival sources

  • Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Fitzgibbon, 23 Feb 1865, Vol 75 (46), MRGS 39/037, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
  • Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Fitzgibbon, 14 Nov 1884, Vol 147 (51), MRGS 39/065, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources