Grehan (Clonmeen)

An estate inherited by the Grehan family of Dublin in the early 19th century. Stephen Grehan (1776-1871) was one of the main beneficiaries of the will of his uncle [by marriage], John Roche of Dublin. In 1809 Stephen Grehan married Margaret Ryan of Inch, county Tipperary. The Grehans were involved in banking. By the time of Griffith's Valuation Stephen's son George held at least eight townlands in the parish of Clonmeen, barony of Duhallow, county Cork and another son, Peter, held lands in the parishes Ballycahill, Moyaliff, Templebeg and Upperchurch, barony of Kilnamanagh Upper, county Tipperary. Peter's surname is spelt Graham not Grehan in Griffith's Valuation for county Tipperary. Over 1,000 acres at Coolroemore was bought in 1857. The Grehans acquired further lands in the barony of East Carbery and in county Tipperary. By the 1870s George Grehan owned an estate of over 7,000 acres in county Cork and his brother, Peter Grehan of 19 Rutland Square, Dublin, owned 1,875 acres in county Tipperary. John Therry was agent to this estate in the late 19th century. A large collection of estate and family papers documenting the Grehans and their property is located in the Boole Library, University College, Cork. The Grehans sold Clonmeen in 1975. Lands leased by George Gre[n]an to Mary Fitzgerald in 1856 were advertised for sale in October 1883, the estate of John Fitzgerald.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Clonmeen House	Gougane	Clonmeen	Kanturk	Clonmeen 162	Duhallow	Cork	OSI Ref: W414 985 OS Sheet: 31 Discovery map: 80
Clonmeen Lodge	Gougane	Clonmeen	Kanturk	Clonmeen 162	Duhallow	Cork	OSI Ref: W413 987 OS Sheet: 31 Discovery map: 80
Springvale	Springvale	Kildorrery	Mitchelstown	Kildorrery 292	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R695 131 OS Sheet: 18 Discovery map: 73
Gortkelly Castle	Gortkelly	Upperchurch	Thurles	Gortkelly	Kilnamanagh Upper	Tipperary	OSI Ref: S016 608 OS Sheet: 40 Discovery map: 59

Archival sources

Grehan Family Papers 1779-1975, BL/EP/G/ http://booleweb.ucc.ie/documents/Grehan.pdf; University College Cork, Boole Library Archives
Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Fitzgerald, 11 Oct 1883, Vol 145 (46), MRGS 39/064, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Nagle & Curtin, (Coolroemore), 26 Sept 1857, Vol 47 (32), MRGS 39/023, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
Irish Tourist Association Survey, Parishes of Clonmeen and Kildorrery; 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: 124, 163
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] : 193
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Duhallow Barony, 81 (Gougane)
''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Kilnamanagh Upper, 80 (Gortkelly)
BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.193

Modern printed sources

BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 87
HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 119-120
PINE, L.G. (ed). ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. 4th ed. London: Burke's Peerage, 1958.: 331
''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). XXVI, 2nd Series (1920), 223-224 (Springvale)
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Special Lists.: Grehan Family Papers, Boole Library. Special List 424