Eustace
The Eustace family of county Kildare are associated with the title Viscount Baltinglass. They were settled in the county in the seventeenth century and living at Robertstown in the eighteenth century. In 1801 the head of the family the Rev Charles Eustace married Cassandra, daughter and heiress of John Stannard of Baldoyle, county Cork and the Eustaces came to possess their county Cork estate by this marriage. At the time of Griffith's Valuation their only son Charles Stannard Eustace held land in the parishes of Castletownroche, barony of Fermoy, and Gortroe, barony of Barrymore, county Cork. In the 1870s Charles Stannard Eustace of London owned 995 acres in county Cork, 1,406 acres in county Kildare, 1,036 acres in county Westmeath and 501 acres in King's County (Offaly). The county Westmeath estate was in the parish of Kilcleagh. General Henry Eustace was a brother of Reverend Charles Eustace. The General married Henrietta, daughter of Peter Count Dalton and died in 1844. The representatives of his son Henry Eustace held 440 acres of untenanted land and the mansion house at Grenanstown, county Tipperary in 1906.
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Grenanstown | Grenanstown | Ballymackey | Nenagh | Kilkeary 110 | Upper Ormond | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: R943 760
OS Sheet: 21 Discovery map: 59 |
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| Rockvale (Castletownroche) | Ballydoyle | Castletownroche | Fermoy | Castletownroche 130 | Fermoy | Cork |
OSI Ref: R684043
OS Sheet: 26 Discovery map: 73 |
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Archival sources
- Survey of part of Ballydoyle in the parish of Castletownroche, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork, the estate of Charles Eustace. By Clarges, Greene & Son. Large folio sheet, with names of tenants, 1856. 15 B. 22 (41) ; National Library of Ireland
- Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Castletownroche [Rockvale]; Cork County Library
- A map of the lands of Kilgarvan, in the barony of Clonloran, Co. Westmeath, the estate of Charles Stannard Eustace. Surveyed by David Carey. Folio sheet, coloured, with names of tenants, Jan., 1847. 21 F. 80 (27); 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: 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] : 149
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion...'', HC 1906, c, 177: 277 (Grenanstown)
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Fermoy, p.35
- BATEMAN, John. ''The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland''. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.155
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 83
Modern printed sources
- ''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), 160 (Ballydoyle)
- MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 387-391