Kenifick/Kenefick

Anthony McCan traces the history of this merchant family of Cork from Edmond Kenifick of the mid 18th century to Richard Kenifick of the late 19th century. In 1808 Edmond Kenifick bought Ballindeasig house and estate, parish of Ballyfoyle, barony of Kinalea from Patrick Lambert, a clothier, of Dublin. He was also leasing the neighbouring townland of Reagrove. Edmond died in 1811 and was succeeded in 1814 by his nephew Richard Roche Kenifick who was living at Ballindeasig by the 1820s. In 1815 Richard married Alicia Moylan and their daughter Mary Creagh married in 1850 John Chrysostom Hennessy of Knockaniffe House, Ballyfeard. Mary's brother Richard conveyed Ballindeasig to his brother in law John C. Hennessy in February 1853. At the time of Griffith's Valuation Richard Kenefick held land in the parishes of Ballyfoyle, barony of Kinalea and Rathcormack, barony of Barrymore. In the 1870s Richard Kenefic of Ballindeasig owned 286 acres in county Cork. http://www.kenefick.com/Kenifecks_of_Ballindeasig_House.pdf

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ballindeasig	Ballindeasig	Ballyfoyle	Kinsale	Ballyfoyle 190	Kinalea	Cork	OSI Ref: W735 535 OS Sheet: 113 Discovery map: 87

Archival sources

Purchase of Ballindeasig from Lambert, 14 July 1808. ROD 603.63.410811; Registry of Deeds
Sale of Ballindeasig to John C. Hennessy, 19 Feb 1853. ROD 1853.5.169; Registry of Deeds
Map of a farm in the occupation of M. Kenefick in Crosshaven, Co. Cork, 1888. M. 1446 ; National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Kinalea Barony, 9 (Ballindeasig)
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 127

Modern printed sources

''The Irish Genealogist'': MCCAN, Anthony. The rise and fall of the Kenifecks of Ballindeasig House. XI (2003), 145-151