Stawell (Old Court & Crobeg)

This branch of the Stawell family, like the Kilbrittain family, trace their descent from Archdeacon Stawell of Kinsale in the mid 17th century. They settled at Ballylought, near Mallow, county Cork. George Stawell of Summerhill, Ballylought and Ballyveniter, married his cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of Jonas Stawell of Kilbittain and in 1805 their eldest surviving son, Jonas of Old Court, married Anne Elizabeth Foster, daughter of the Bishop of Clogher. Jonas and Anne's third son became Sir William Stawell (born 1815), Chief Justice of Victoria, 1857-1886. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation, their eldest son, George Cooper Stawell of Old Court, held land in the parishes of Donaghmore and Grenagh, barony of Barretts, county Cork. In 1843 George C. Stawell married Elizabeth Tandy of Belrath, county Meath but they had no children. Over 850 acres of his estate at Ballyveniter was advertised for sale in October 1851 and again in July 1852. George Stawell of Crobeg, county Cork, was a younger brother of Jonas Stawell of Old Court. In 1801 he married Elizabeth Longfield of Longueville and in the 1870s their son, George Stawell of Crobeg, owned 3,222 acres in county Cork. At the same time another family member, Jonas Stawell of Gurrane, younger brother of George Cooper Stawell, owned 1,257 acres. In March 1865, property in Cork City belonging to John Robert Stawell was sold in the Landed Estates Court to John Russell.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Garraun	Garraun South	Donaghmore	Cork	Firmount 101	Barretts	Cork	OSI Ref: W543 815 OS Sheet: 62 Discovery map: 80
The Hermitage	Ballyandrew	Doneraile	Mallow	Doneraile 242	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R610 062 OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 73
Crobeg	Castlesaffron	Doneraile	Mallow	Wallstown 246	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R618 063 OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 73
Old Court (Doneraile)	Oldcourt	Doneraile	Mallow	Doneraile 242	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R595 087 OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 73
Ballyviniter	Ballyviniter Lower	Mallow	Mallow	Mallow Rural 250	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R574010 OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 73
Summerhill	Carhookeal	Mallow	Mallow	Mallow Rural 250	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: W563 972 OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 80

Archival sources

Copy of confirmation of arms to the descendants of the Rev. Jonas Stawell, Archdeacon of Ross, July 16, 1664, great grandson of Eustace Stawell of Chudleigh, Co. Devon and to his descendant, Col. George Dodsworth Stawell, Director of Military Education in India, grandson of George Stawell of Crobeg, Summerhill and Ballyhologue, Co. cork, April 30, 1908. Genealogical Office: Ms. 111, pp.210-1; National Library of Ireland
Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Stawell, 18 Oct 1851, Vol 10 (46), MRGS 39/004, (microfilm copy in NUIG) ; National Archives of Ireland
Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Stawell, 30 July 1852, Vol 18 (15), MRGS 39/008, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Stawell, (Ballintemple), 7 March 1865, Vol 75 (52), MRGS 39/037, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parishes of Doneraile & Mallow; Cork County Library

Contemporary printed sources

LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 140 (Crobeg), 313 (Old Court)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barretts Barony, 3 (Garraun South)
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] : 425
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 135
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 57 (Castlesaffron), 68 (Oldcourt), 128 (Ballyviniter Lower), 130 (Carhookeal)
LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 478 (Crobeg & Oldcourt)
WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 356 (Summer Hill)

Modern printed sources

BENNETT, J.M. ''Lives of the Australian Chief Justices, Sir William Stawell second Chief Justice of Victoria 1857-1886''. Sydney: The Federation Press, 2004: All
BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1912: 658-661
HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 134, 199, 289-290
STAWELL, George Dodsworth Stawell. ''A Quantock Family. The Stawells of Cothelstown, and their Descendants, the Barons Stawell of Somerton, and the Stawells of Devonshire and County Cork''. Taunton: Barnicott & Pearce, 1910: All
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XXIV, 2nd Series (1918), 143-149 (Oldcourt)
''Irish Times'': Landed Estates Court sales, 8 March1865, p.4