Cavendish (Waterpark)
This family was descended from Henry Cavendish, a natural son of Henry Cavendish (died 1616), elder brother of the 1st Duke of Devonshire. A descendant, Henry Cavendish, came to Ireland circa 1730 and in that year married Anne, daughter and co heiress of Henry Pyne of Waterpark, county Cork, son of Sir Richard Pyne, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Henry was created a baronet in 1755 and died in 1776. In 1757, his son, also named Henry Cavendish, married Sarah, only daughter and heiress of Richard Bradshaw. She was created Baroness Waterpark in 1792. Their son, Richard, succeeded as 2nd Baron Waterpark. In 1767, Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet, was leasing land from the Bishop of Clogher in counties Monaghan and Tyrone. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the estate of the 3rd Baron was mainly in the parish of Tubbrid, but also in the parishes of Tullaghorton and Whitechurch, barony of Iffa and Offa West, county Tipperary. This family had an English seat at Doveridge Hall, Derby, and in the 1870s the Irish estate amounted to 3,465 acres in county Tipperary. In July 1853 land at Scartana, county Tipperary and in counties Kildare and Dublin, the estate of the Reverend Frederick Cavendish, grandson of the 2nd Baronet, was advertised for sale. Land at Scart, barony of Iffa and Offa West, belonging to Henry Coleman and held from Lord Waterpark was advertised for sale in December 1856.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Waterpark | Waterpark | Lismore & Mocollop | Fermoy | Knockmourne 137 | Condons & Clangibbon | Cork |
OSI Ref: W918 982
OS Sheet: 36 Discovery map: 81 |
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| Garryroan House | Garryroan | Whitechurch | Clogheen | Tubbrid 68 | Iffa and Offa West | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: S015 218
OS Sheet: 81 Discovery map: 74 |
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| Tubbrid | Tubbrid | Tubbrid | Clogheen | Tubbrid 68 | Iffa and Offa West | Tipperary |
OSI Ref: S028 177
OS Sheet: 87 Discovery map: 74 |
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Archival sources
- Volume of copy maps of the estates of Sir Henry Cavenish in Tedavnet and Clones, Co Monaghan and Kilskeery, Co Tyrone, leased from the Bishop of Clogher, 1767. T2280; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Coleman, 9 Dec 1856, Vol 43 (17), MRGS 39/020, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (Burke), Cavendish, 5 July 1853, Vol 35 ; National Library of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Iffa and Offa West, 130 (Tubbrid), 140 (Garryroan)
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 172
- 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] : 469
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Tipperary: Vol.IX, Parish of Tulloghorton, p.145. Parish of Tubrid, pp.240, 245, 250-251. Parish of Whitechurch, pp.274-277.
Modern printed sources
- BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage''. London: Harrison & Sons, 1886: 1395-1397
- ''Jnl of the Waterford and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society'' : Sadleir, Thomas U. The county of Waterford, 1775: principal gentry. XVI (1913), pp.49-55.