Spratt (Pencil Hill)
This Spratts descend from a member of a Somerset family, the Reverend Devereux Spratt, who acquired estates in counties Cork and Wexford in the mid 17th century. The Spratts intermarried with their neighbours, the Foott family of Springfort Hall and Carrigacunna Castle, on a number of occasions. It was through one of these marriages that the Spratts came to own Pencil Hill. The Spratts were located in the parish of Caherduggan, barony of Fermoy, while Messrs Spratt, Nagle and others held land in the parish of Brigown, barony of Condons and Clangibbon. In the 1870s members of the Spratt family of Pencil Hill, Mallow, owned over 850 acres in county Cork between them, while Spratt and Horace owned 860 acres.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pencil Hill | Baltydaniel East | Caherduggan | Mallow | Caherduggan 241 | Fermoy | Cork |
OSI Ref: R556 032
OS Sheet: 25 Discovery map: 73 |
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| Ballyenahan | Ballyenahan South | Derryvillane | Mitchelstown | Derryvillane 290 | Fermoy | Cork |
OSI Ref: R727 081
OS Sheet: 18 Discovery map: 73 |
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| Ballybeg (Mitchelstown) | Ballybeg | Brigown | Mitchell'stown | Kilphelan | Condons & Clangibbon | Cork |
OSI Ref: R815098
OS Sheet: 19 Discovery map: 74 |
Archival sources
- Irish Tourist Association survey files, Parish of Ballindangan (?) [Ballyanahan]; Cork County Library
Contemporary printed sources
- 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. : Fermoy Barony, 21 (Baltydaniel East)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 318 (Pencil-hill)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 240 (Monte Video)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 223
- WILSON, William. ''The Post-Chaise Companion or Travellers Directory Through Ireland''. The author: Dublin, 1786 : 212 (Ballybeg)
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1904: 561
- HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 46, 297
- ''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). XIII, 2nd Series (1907), 168-171 (Ballyenahan)
- ''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), 154-156 (Pencil Hill House)
- ''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: MOORE, Rev Courtenay. A side-light on Irish Clerical life in the 17th century, being passages from the Autobiography of Rev. Devereux Spratt, Rector of Brigown, 1661-1663. Ser. 2, Vol. XII (1906), pp. 88-96
- ''Jnl. of the Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland'': MOORE, Rev Courtenay. An outline of the life of the Rev. Devereux Spratt. Ser. 5, Vol. I (1890), pt. 1, pp. 112-113