Lyons (Cork)
Francis Lyons, Mayor of Cork 1866-1868, was the owner of 866 acres in county Cork in the 1870s. He appears to be the son of Francis Lyons, brother of Thomas Lyon, the first Catholic Mayor of the city. In 1863 he married Frances daughter of Nicholas Daniel Murphy, Member of Parliament, and he died in 1886. Francis may have been a relative of the Lyons family of Croom, county Limerick.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
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| Rathcoursey House (East) | Rathcoursey East | Garranekinnefeake | Middleton | Rostellan 259 | Imokilly | Cork |
OSI Ref: W875 695
OS Sheet: 76 Discovery map: 81 |
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Archival sources
- Pedigree of Lyons of City of Cork, and Rathcoursey House and Lee House, Co. Cork, c.1750 -- c.1920. Genealogical Office: Ms.182, pp.477-8 ; 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: 128
- 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] : 283
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Imokilly Barony, 141 (Rathcoursey East)