Durdin
A family settled in the vicinity of Carrigtuohill near Cork city from the mid 17th century. Alexander Durdin of Shanagarry, born 1712, married four times. His third wife was Anne Penn widow of William Penn, grandson of the founder of Pennsylvania and Sir Bernard Burke states that through her Alexander came to possess estates in Ireland and America. His fourth wife was Margaret daughter of Warham St Leger. Warham Durdin was the eldest son of the fourth marriage. He lived at Sunville, Dromadda and Midleton Lodge and by his wife Anne Garde had 10 children. Their son Thomas Durdin of Shanagarry Castle held land in the parishes of Ballintemple, Ballyoughtera, Cloyne, Kilmahon, barony of Imokilly at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In June 1855 the fee simple estate of Thomas Garde Durdin amounting to 1,650 acres in the barony of Imokilly was advertised for sale. The representatives of Thomas Durdin, Shanagarry, owned 935 acres in the 1870s. Members of this family also owned land in county Carlow.
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Ballymagooly | Ballymagooly | Rahan | Mallow | Rahan 255 | Fermoy | Cork |
OSI Ref: W592 985
OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 80 |
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| Dromadda | Dromadda More | Ballyoughtera | Middleton | Castlemartyr 260 | Imokilly | Cork |
OSI Ref: W961 712
OS Sheet: 77 Discovery map: 81 |
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| Sunville | Sunville | Cloyne | Middleton | Ballintemple 256 | Imokilly | Cork |
OSI Ref: W958 651
OS Sheet: 89 Discovery map: 81 |
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| Shanagarry Castle | Shanagarry South | Kilmahon | Middleton | Ballycottin 264 | Imokilly | Cork |
OSI Ref: W977 665
OS Sheet: 89 Discovery map: 81 |
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Archival sources
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Durdin, 19 June 1855, Vol 35 (38), MRGS 39/016, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
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 : 161 (Dromada), 365 (Sunville)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 122
- 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] : 143
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Imokilly Barony, 121 (Sunville)
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: II, 168 (parish of Kilmahon)
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: I, 554
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND. Reports on Private Collections: Report on the Manning-Robertson Papers (from 1762), the property of Mrs. M. Manning-Robertson, Clonegal, Co. Carlow, relating to the Leslie and Durdin families and to lands in Cos. Carlow, Wexford and Kerry. No 62