Leahy (Bear)
The county Cork estate of the Leahy family in the Bantry area and at Macroom and Cork was held from the Earls of Bantry and is documented in the Bantry Papers. The will of Thomas Leahy dated 1814 refers to the county Cork lands he purchased and leased from Lord Bantry (Bantry Papers BL/EP/B/309). His son Daniel F. Leahy was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Kilcatherine and Killaconenagh, barony of Bear, county Cork at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s Thomas J. Leahy of Cork owned 4,874 acres in county Cork. In the 1880s the Leahy estate passed to the descendants of Clement Carroll who had married Eliza Leahy in the early 19th century. By March 1916 an offer from the Congested Districts' Board had been accepted for 4,052 acres of the estate of Thomas J. Leahy.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Woodfort | Kilvealaton East | Kilshannig | Mallow | Kilshannig 248 | Duhallow | Cork |
OSI Ref: W532 972
OS Sheet: 32 Discovery map: 80 |
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| Brandy Hall | Derrymihin West | Killaconenagh | Bantry | Bear | Cork |
OSI Ref: V683462
OS Sheet: 115 Discovery map: |
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Archival sources
- The Bantry Papers. BL/EP/B; University College Cork, Boole Library Archives
- Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Glantane; Cork County Library
Contemporary printed sources
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 127
- 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] : 264
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''24th Annual Report of the Congested Districts' Board for Ireland'', [Cd 8356], HC 1916, vi, 564-586. Appendix VIII: 41
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Barony of Bear: 92 (Derrymihin West)