Wood/Woods (Kilbolane)
Attiwell Wood married Elizabeth Falkiner daughter of Sir Riggs Falkiner 1st Baronet. He was a barrister and Member of Parliament for Castlemartyr, county Cork. In the early 19th century [their son] Attiwell Wood of Seeds, county Cork, married Mary Creagh daughter of Kilner Brasier and his wife Mary Creagh. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Kilner R. Woods held land in the parishes of Kilbolane and Shandrum, barony of Orrery and Kilmore. In April 1875 the fee simple of over 1,000 acres in the barony of Orrery and Kilmore, the estate of Attiwell Henry Wood, a minor, was advertised for sale. In the mid 1870s the representatives of Kilner R. Woods of Dublin owned 1,019 acres and Attiwell Wood of Cork owned 152 acres in county Cork.
Associated Families
No houses were found for this estate
Archival sources
- Landed Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Wood, 30 Apr 1875, Vol 118 (79), MRGS 39/054, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Lismore Castle Papers. Collection List 129; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 138
- 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] : 483