Penn
Sir William Penn, an English admiral, was granted the castle and manor of Macroom, county Cork, in the mid 17th century. At the restoration of the monarchy he lost these lands and received an estate at Shangarry in 1667 in compensation. This estate amounted to 7,282 acres in the barony of Imokily and 4,859 acres in the barony of Ibane. His son William Penn, a Quaker, founded the state of Pennsylvania in America after spending some time in county Cork in the late 1660s. The Penn estate in county Cork passed into the possession of the Gaskell and Durdin families.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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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
- Bucks, Glos, Middlesex, Irish & Pennsylvania deeds, family and estate papers, 17th-18th centuries.; Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service
- Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Cloyne; Cork County Library
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''15th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records Ireland,'' 1825. Vol XVI, Appendix I, Grants under Acts of Settlement: 95
- PRIOR, Thomas. ''A list of the Absentees of Ireland, and the yearly value of their estates and incomes spent abroad''. 1730: 4
Modern printed sources
- MCCARTHY, Kieran. ''In the steps of St Finbarre: Voices and memories of the Lee Valley''. Dublin: Nonsuch Publishing, 2006: 83-84
- Ó LOINGSIGH, Pádraig (ed). ''The Book of Cloyne''. [Cloyne Historical and Archaeological Society], 2nd edition, [1994] : 171-176, 349-352
- ''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: J.C. Admiral Penn, William Penn and their descendants in the Co Cork. XIV, 2nd Series (1908), 105-114 &177-189