Hendley
The Hendleys were established in the Fermoy locality of county Cork in the 17th century. Hajba writes that Matthias Hendley was agent to Sir Robert Abercromby in the late 1830s and 1840s. His son Matthias Christopher Hendley married Ann Leslie and held land in the parish of Clondulane in the 1850s. Another branch of the Hendley family lived at Downing. In 1833 William Spread Hendley of Downing, barony of Fermoy, county Cork, married Francis Galwey daughter of John Galwey of Rock Lodge, county Cork. In 1846 James Hendley of Downing married Alicia Minchin and had 3 sons and 6 daughters. Part of the Hendley estate at Downing was offered for sale in October 1855. Arthur Hendley is recorded as holding 2 townlands in the parish of Kilcrumper, barony of Fermoy, county Cork, at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s Arthur Hendley of Downing owned 255 acres and Mathias Christopher Hendley of Mountrivers, Fermoy, owned 844 acres in county Cork.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downing | Downing South | Kilcrumper | Fermoy | Fermoy | Fermoy | Cork |
OSI Ref: R804 031
OS Sheet: 27 Discovery map: 73 |
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| Rockville | Licklash | Clondulane | Fermoy | Fermoy Rural 140 | Condons & Clangibbon | Cork |
OSI Ref: W826 998
OS Sheet: 35 Discovery map: 81 |
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| Licklash | Licklash | Clondulane | Fermoy | Fermoy Rural 140 | Condons & Clangibbon | Cork |
OSI Ref: R824 000
OS Sheet: 35 Discovery map: 74 |
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| Mountrivers | Mountrivers | Clondulane | Fermoy | Fermoy Rural 140 | Condons & Clangibbon | Cork |
OSI Ref: R832 000
OS Sheet: 36 Discovery map: 74 |
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Archival sources
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), O’Donnell, (part of Downing), 16 July 1851, Vol 10 (24), MRGS 39/004, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Mockler, 16 July 1851, Vol 10 (25), MRGS 39/004, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Hendley, Morley, Hanley, 16 Oct 1855, Vol 36 (12), MRGS 39/017, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (Burke), Mockler, 25 July 1853, Vol 35; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 100 (Downing South)
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 159 (Downing), 297 (Mount-rivers)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 125 (Hendley), 118 (Bourke)
- 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] : 214
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Condons & Clangibbon Barony, 40 (Mountrivers)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: I, 356 (Mount Rivers; Rockville - Rev J. Mockler)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 235 (Mountrivers & Licklash - Bourke)
Modern printed sources
- HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 146, 277
- MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 468 (Galwey), 826 (Minchin)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on Bond Papers, the property of Mrs. Bond, The Manor, Castlelyons, Fermoy, Co. Cork, relating mostly to the Castlelyons area and the Hendley family. Henry Bond married Mary Earbery Hendley in 1868, 17th - 19th c. No. 440