Purdon (Ballyclogh)

This family shared a common ancestry with the Purdons of Tinecrana, county Clare. They descended from Sir Nicholas Purdon of Ballyclogh, fifth son of John Purdon of Tullagh, county Clare. Sir Nicholas was Member of Parliament for Baltimore, county Cork, in 1661. In 1669 he was granted over 7,000 acres in county Cork including Ballyclogh. He died in 1678 leaving four sons. Anne Purdon the eventual heiress of his eldest son Bartholomew married in 1730 Robert Coote of Ash Hill, county Limerick. The second son of Sir Nicholas was Gilbert Purdon of Bellkelly, county Clare, who had four sons including Nicholas of Dysert, county Cork and George of Primrose Hill, Blarney, county Cork. Gilbert's daughters married Joseph Wilkinson of Johnstown, county Cork and John Ringrose of Moynoe, county Clare. Ballyclogh eventually passed to the descendants of Sir Nicholas's eldest daughter Jane who in 1666 married Redmond Barry of Rathcormick, county Cork.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ballyclogh [Ballyclough]	Ballyclogh	Glanworth	Fermoy	Glanworth East 143	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: R788 042 OS Sheet: 27 Discovery map: 73

Archival sources

Lease for lives Anne Lysaght & Mary Coote Purdon, Cork city to Henry N. Wrixon of Assollas of land at Mehanough, Co Cork, 14 Apr 1786. 999/424; National Archives of Ireland
Alexander Bell & Sons, solicitor's collection, includes probate of will of Bartholomew Purdon of Ballyclogh, 20 Aug 1737. Small Accessions Index 9, T.9134; National Archives of Ireland
British Records Association Deposit (1950) included leases of lands in barony of Duhallow from members of the Dickson & Boyle (Earl of Shannon) families to members of the Freeman, Carthy, Foote, MacGhee, Keeffe, Boyle, Purdon, Allen, Purcell, Pike, Creagh, Wrixon, Longfield, Holmes, Fitzgerald, Purdon, Trant,, Delaney, Herrick, Reilly, Leader & Barry families, 1715-1857. Small Accs. Index 102; National Archives of Ireland

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: 215-216

Modern printed sources

BURKE, John & BURKE, John Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Henry Colburn, 1847: II, 1083-1085
HAJBA, Anna-Maria. ''Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork''. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 48
''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). XIII, 2nd Series (1907),145-150 (Ballyclogh)